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- Jane Farr
- Carmel, Indiana, United States
- I'm a freelance calligrapher working out of my home studio. I love it! I have a passion for calligraphy and have an insatiable appetite for learning new things to incorporate with my lettering. I also enjoy journaling, traveling, baking, reading and watching Purdue University basketball. I am married to my best friend and we have two great kids. Feel free to email me about my work, but please do not take or copy my work without my permission.
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©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC Here is a Flourish Friday Feather for you! I used McCaffrey's Black ink and a vintage Hunt 2... -
I received a call for entries from the Columbus Center for Paper and Book Arts (CCPBA/European Papers) . Artists were asked to create two ... -
After 4 straight days of cold, rainy and just plain GLOOMY weather, I am already dreamy of Spring, sunshine and butterflies! This little... -
Happy Friday everyone! I thought I'd share some more from my IAMPETH experience. Another session to which I was really lo... -
This is a practice page done on 100% cotton, resume paper using a Gillott 170 nib and Moon Palace Sumi. E.A. Lupfer is one of my favorite ... -
This is from one of my handouts for the Zentangle program I did for my calligraphy guild last month. Zentangles are wonderful images create... -
©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC I made a few cards this week. The above mandala was done with Moon Palace Sumi and a Zebr... -
Graduation season is upon us! Like many people, Jeremiah 29:11 is one of my favorite verses from scripture. I like to include it in the ... -
©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC When I am finished with a job and get toward the bottom of my inkwell, the ink gets gunky. Alth... -
For this week's Flourish Friday, I tried my hand at Ornamental Fraktur. Believe it or not, this is the letter A . I used some blue ink...
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122 Blot - Rather than "*Blot*," a better name for this alphabet might be "Dribble." India ink used to be sold in dropper-stopper glass bottles, which made it easy t...
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Happiness - More fun chunky versals...and a good quote from Eleanor. She had lots of good ones.
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ABC flowers - a while back i had some flowers where the petals were the letters of the alphabet. after doing a couple of those, i knew i had to do the whole alphabet. ...
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Samuel Pepys; The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin - Painting of Samuel Pepys by John Hayls from the National Portrait Gallery Samuel Pepys is of course known for his diary. It is the most famous diary i...
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Process Pictures - Every now and then I am asked to talk about my process of work. Since 2010, I have been carrying a journal and mechanical pencil with me wherever I go. I h...
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Beautiful things ... ink-sticks are - David, Jun-Tien Chen & me at *Da-You* the ink-stick making house in the Sanchong District of New Taipei City. This wooden ink-stick mould is one hund...
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A Wee Bit of History... - If you are wondering where I am most of the time these days - it is in the historic Flour Exchange Building. The windows are extra large as this was where ...
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Wedding Invitation with Dom Loves Mary Calligraphy Font in Ireland Photo Shoot - This lovely wedding invitation suite and signage with my Dom Loves Mary calligraphy font and Text font was illustrated and designed by the gals at “Pretty ...2 days ago
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paint flowers - *"I perhaps owe having become a painter* *to flowers."* * **Claude Monet* * * {here's to a weekend filled with lots of time to paint flowers!! enjoy!}...
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Demonstrating at ScrapbookLive - A couple of weeks ago I demonstrated calligraphy at ScrapbookLive at the Griffin Gallery, London, an event organised by my agent, Illustration Ltd. The ev...
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Thursday Thoughts... - “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” *Zora Neale Hurston * * *This thought made me stop and think, which I guess is what I'm after e...
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Art Licensing, Stationery & New York City! - This past weekend I found myself on a 5-day door-to-door whirlwind trip … to New York City for the National Stationery Show and Surtex (for art licensing)....
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Women's Art in the Garden Retreat at the Center in Palos Park - What a beautiful weekend for our Retreat. This is the side of the Lodge which was built as a "house by the side of the road". It's located on a hill sur...
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Designing a Logo that Mixes Brush Calligraphy With Type - Some very interesting studies of the technically challenging, always daunting, most graceful and simple letter of the alphabet, the "S." The client was a mak...5 days ago
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On a Good Day - I just found this photo of my computer desk on a good day. Since then I have made the wall behind the computer a gallery wall, adding Glen Epstein's gift ...
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Titivillus - Titivillus is the daemon who harass calligraphers, provoking stains and copy mistakes among other distasters. He shows most of the times when one doesn'texp...1 week ago
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How to avoid creating “visual chloroform” in calligraphy - When teaching calligraphy, I always take some of my calligraphy books along to let my students see what’s available. Although most of my books are quite ol...1 week ago
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Western Calligraphy Workshops - These are listings on the GoLibrary website for two workshops I conducted in the month of May 2013, at Serangoon Public Library on Saturday the 11th and ...
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The Etiquette of Inner Envelopes - It's National Etiquette Week! I thought I'd celebrate by "addressing" the subject of inner envelopes. ("Addressing," it's a pun! I slay me.) Once upon a ti...1 week ago
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Valentine pop-ups In Ft Meyers for SWFLN! - I got a chance to work with Librarians in the South West Florida Library Network this year...we had a fun day of making pop-up cards, pop-up books, even c...
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The Tattoo Logo - Some logo projects require a lot of sketching. With commercial lettering, a concept no matter how beautiful may not be what the client has in mind. Wit...
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New Brush! - I just bought a new brush – the Liquitex Freestyle – a full six inches wide and looking like it just might be able to create a calligraphic stroke! I am ex...
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Exposition gravures et sculptures à Toulouse - J'expose mes gravures, avec les sculptures/moulages de Matt Roussel, du 13 au 18 mai à Toulouse. C'est à la Galerie des Carmes, 33 rue des Polinaires. No...2 weeks ago
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PLAN campaign - The recent campaign by plan: ‘Because I am a girl” This project was a real challenge, as the chalk lettering needed to look as though it was done by a novi...2 weeks ago
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New Addressing Style - With the New York Stationery show coming up soon, Sugar Paper is doing a mailing to their clients to let them know what booth num...
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ALSO - Reason for not visiting the blog is FACEBOOK. No! I am not spending (rather wasting?) time on social networking for liking and gossiping and poking in othe...2 weeks ago
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Age as Art - A little commission for a fiftieth birthday card: Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. ~ Stanislaw Lec. I need to have this etched on...
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A is for Anemone - At the end of last year, my friend *Heather* and I decided if we would create an illuminated or decorated letter every other week (although I may have ...
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Signs and Logos - Open Sign for The Word is ART Gallery Closed sign for The Word is ART Gallery Door These are 2 logos for the same company, a menswear line
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Best wishes, Kelly and Zack - My nephew Zack married Kelly yesterday. I took lots of photos, of course, but I wasn’t the official event photographer, and I will save most of those for f...4 weeks ago
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A little bit more about my new machine - My last post was about the Silhouette Cameo machine that I panuary and I wanted to share some more about it. I am NOT an expert on this machine and am stil...1 month ago
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Calligraphy on "Blown" Eggs - There is no limit to what calligraphy can adorn! With a simple carton of eggs and Sharpie's new brush marker, I now have Easter words like "Hosanna", "forgi...
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MARCH AND APRIL 2013 - Finishing School Handwriting! Sometimes an unexpected rush job during the height of wedding season comes along and there is just simply no time for class...
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Studio Spring Cleaning - Spring is upon us, and my studio is in transition; some things must go! Fellow calligraphers and other artists, if you happen to be looking for any of the...
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White House Calligraphy - I saw this posted on Facebook by a local news channel. It said, "Can you tell the difference in this photo? One side of this invitation was written by hand...
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Baby Name Gift for a Friend - Just finished this gift for a friend's baby. I used some caps that I learned in Yves Leterme's "Drawn Capitals and Modern Versals" workshop last year. Yves...
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So Sweet!!! - Recently, I visited an Etsy shop called Edelweiss Post, which is owned and curated by a handsome young man from Minneapolis named Patrick... this is his ph...2 months ago
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New 2013 Designs - I've been busy at work in the studio this month. Here are a few new designs for 2013:
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White-throated Sparrow - Passing Through White-throated Sparrow 5 x 7 inches Acrylic on canvas panel $75 It seems with each new acrylic painting there is a new experience. This I ...
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The End of Posterous - [image: In_the_end_5_-_cl] I just found out today that this is the end for Posterous. Posterous will go dark on April 30th 2013. Posterous is the blo...3 months ago
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Calligraphy video. January 2013 - New video from Barbara Calzolari * * * Short film from a four-day intensive on calligraphy and lettering in Kiev. In lead roles: Victoria and Vitalina Lopu...4 months ago
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- - You ask me where I want to be; I wonder where the lights could lead us. Never knowing what lies ahead Is a terror or a thrill. You let go of the wheel ...4 months ago
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Guest Book Alternative - A bride I worked with recently sent pictures of one of my signing scrolls on display during the reception - always a treat to see my work "doing it's job"!...
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kickstarter... - received in the inbox this week .... "We are publishing a limited edition of a handmade book of facsimiles of some fantastic hand lettered practice sheets...7 months ago
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Gilding Workshop Memphis 2012 - Here are some photos from last weekend’s gilding workshop in Memphis. Two accordion books featuring techniques learned in class Lovely collage created by C...7 months ago
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FRAGILE and ON FIRE - *Artist:* *Darren Cullen * *Shop:** Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives*
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NEW Bird Flourish #2 - This flourish is on a 10x14 black Cardstock paper in white ink. This original flourish is $200 by check or money-order only. Please email me at swlilly...
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By: #Zentangle Untangled Blog Hop & Review « lifeimitatesdoodles - [...] Tuesday July 24 - Jill Berry [...]9 months ago
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HELP! - Оригинал взят у *marichcka* в HELP! Друзья, у меня тяжело больна моя любимая младшая сестренка, самый мой родной человечек и лучший друг http://www.facebook...10 months ago
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My Madonna with text - Which comes first: Illustration or text? Normally I would do the lettering for a project and then add the illumination, but to achieve the faux stained g...
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To Share or Not to Share - By now you may have notice the No Pin Zone graphic on my site. It’s recently come to my attention that, unlike Facebook and Twitter, photos and videos cap...1 year ago
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Monoprinting play! - At a recent artist's 'play day' (as we call them...) 6 of us got to explore the process of monoprinting using plexiglas plates, a variety of papers and wa...
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A thank you gift... - Today I put together a gift for a friend as a thank you to her. An avid horsewoman, I thought she might appreciate a decorated horseshoe to hang on a wa...
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New Work - Work in progress... click on photo to enlarge. This piece is quite subtle. Lettered in a light blue gouache, with blind embossed, overlapping layers of clo...
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New wedding calligraphy blog - I’ve launched a new blog and calligraphy website called Calligraphy For Weddings. Please visit, subscribe to my feed there and browse many more calligraphy...1 year ago
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Christmas Card 2011 - Ah! a Blog again! This is what our Christmas Card is like this year. This year I thought I would make something beautiful. What I did not anticipate was i...
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“In a word” - Repetition is the easiest form of organizing. Understanding vertical downstrokes at a 45% pen angle as the basis for letter construction is a practice that...1 year ago
