So there’s being a little bit of travel this summer, just closer to home. I need to return to Williams College, with an appointment scheduled in their rare book room … they have manuscripts!
What I especially like about this page is that I neglected to finish my pen-flourished W. Seemed the best place to sign.
What a trip indeed. Nearly 3 weeks to California and back; to be a calligrapher with fellow calligraphers is such a fine treat. I can’t ask for much of anything more.
I am very excited to be teaching an in-person workshop in the Bay Area next month. The Friends of Calligraphy are hosting me for 3 days to to share my love for illuminated versals. March 9 – 11, 9:30 – 4:30, in Kensington, CA.
A day late for Valentine’s, but it will have to do. ¶ Not much drawing all this time, so I’m digging back – plenty to choose from – and this page was calling. ¶ It also causes me happiness to think of favorite Astoria places: Fort Clatsop, Hwy 30 driving to Sue’s farm, coffee shops galore, or simply sitting on our river-side porch on a late summer afternoon.
I’ll tell a story on myself ¶ Working on the page, I mis-spelled Manhattan. While trying to turn my E into A, Greg glances over and says, “It looks like the Manhattan Bridge” . . . and now, voila, solved. ¶ The moral here, always and for all artists: The surprise of a mistake can turn out better than anything you might think of with your mind. ¶ And that, my friends, is that . . . at least for now.
Eyes Wide Open 