Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Legibility within Calligraphy

Paul:

Definition: The art of beautiful writing

legibility - How clear it is

Uncial - Monks would use this to write scripts and the bible. (bookhand)

Foundation hand - Eric Edward johnston

Italic - Italian script writer

Illegibility - Difficult or impossible to decipher : it cannot be read

Black letter - Gutterbird press (very upright strokes) - speeded up the process (very compressed) Became difficult to read.

Pushing the boundaries - A lot of graphic work goes into it (abstract)

Donald Jetson - Calligrapher to the queen (Working on a bible)

Velom - Can scrap back and start again.

(creating the background the adding the lettering ontop)

Klamath Meda Villa

Dancing around on paper (charcoal and paint on feet)

Calligrapher or Artist?
There is a crossover between calligraphers and artist. Its getting hard to tell the difference between the two.

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