This weekend was filled with great projects.  First, the Greater Cincinnati Calligraphy Guild meeting presentation was on flipping our perceptions of background, foreground, and mid-ground.    Calligrapher Karen McMannon was the presenter.  As always, she did a great job of combining instruction with hands-on activities.
Toward the end of the meeting, Ann Woods showed off copies of [...]

Chances are if you’re reading this post, you can write, and if you can write, you can learn to� do calligraphy.� As a left-hander, calligraphy has always been a challenge for me.� I discovered left-handed nibs (the metal tips on calligraphy pens) far into my calligraphy career, and so am cursed to forever [...]

I am always questing for the perfect paper.� Whether it’s a parchment-style paper for writing letters or the correct paper for making an old-style map, I enjoy the hunt as much as the “kill.”� It is only fitting then that I find the art of papermaking (and parchment making) intriguing.� In college [...]

I’m feeling a little under the weather today, so what better time to sit and surf the Web. I’ve been eyeballing Daniel Reeve’s site forever, and found this great technique page for what he did to recreate the Treaty of Waitangi.
I don’t think there’s anything on his site I don’t like, and besides that he [...]

I recently completed a brochure for my friend Jeff, which warns about the dangers of “z-syndrome,” or Zombie Syndrome. It will be used as a souvenir for a Boy Scout haunted trail he is producing in Michigan.
He provided the copy and zombie images, and I slapped it in Publisher. If you’re a fan of the [...]

As my niece and I are going to the Contemporary Art Center’s “The Paper Sculpture Show” this weekend, I thought it would be fun if we did some Halloween-themed paper crafts.� I found these great coffin printables at via the wonderful (but as of late not updated) Paper Forest.