07 August 2019

Faux Calligraphy


I have been playing lately with faux calligraphy (first step to real calligraphy!). I use it mostly for addresses, so I cannot show a great deal here...







Letters sent to Julia (the USA), Laura (the UK), Johanne (Canada) and Catherine (Belgium).

8 comments:

  1. Bel essai ! Superbes enveloppes !

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  2. You look very accomplished - these are beautiful.

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  3. Not much faux about those! They are super.

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    1. That's the name, anyway. Because you make thin lines and then fill in between. With a normal pen, not a dip pen. But I'm starting to practice with the dip pen too :)

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  4. This looks really good, Eva. I think it is often called modern calligraphy.

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    1. As I told to John, you can't consider this real calligraphy. Not because the result (it looks like calligraphy), but because of the method: you make the lines and then you fill in the gaps (in "real" calligraphy, you make directly the thick lines). At least, that's what I've read about.

      Anyway, I don't dislike how it turn up on envelopes :)

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