IAMPETH (The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting)
MAAW (Mail Art Around the World - Click on the "UK" button for the English translation. Explore all the galleries from previous years. There are hundreds of inspiring calligraphic pieces.)
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, download, or copy my work without my permission.
AOM oval (2)
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[image: AOM oval (2) by long village lettering]
AOM oval (2), a photo by long village lettering on Flickr.
Getting ready to apply to be a demonstrator at ou...
Belluccia on Wedding Paper Divas invite
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Check out this very cool Hip and Stylish invitation suite by Wedding Paper
Divas as posted on the Wedding Chicks blog. I love how they used my
Belluccia fo...
guest artist smash hot fuchsia pink
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in my post below, written a month ago, i said that i imagined i would be
getting some fun mail to add today and as predicted, there were three
wonderful e...
142 Heavy Bookhand
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*Heavy Bookhand* is about as wide as you want to let this alphabet get,
when writing it with a broad-edged pen. I've kept it free of serifs for
clarity. ...
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After hectic work and unbearable heat, we all three escaped to the hills on
last weekend. There is place called Byasi near Rishikesh has a excellent
resort...
Opening our studio and a magazine feature
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Barry and I are unable to participate in the broader Open Studio program
later in the year - we have too many commitments around that time - so
instead we ...
inspiration monday
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when it comes to being at the crawley house.....
i think the service-life downstairs can be just as exciting and inspiring as
the Grantham-life upstair...
Follow. : )
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Follow my blog with Bloglovin! If, like me, you are a current Google Reader
user, you will know the doors will be closing on the 1st of July, so I just
now...
Hughes Easel
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I have been saving my money to buy myself this fabulous Hughes Easel because
at the touch of your hand it moves up and down and side to side. I have a
bac...
Western Calligraphers in Singapore
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A couple of us Western calligraphers in Singapore were interviewed by the *Sunday
Times* recently. The above article, ‘Old script, new uses’, appeared in ...
white ? vine
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A pic of an ongoing work.
Still have to remove the varnish from more than a half of the pattern, with
no guarantee at all on the result. It's part of the...
Fun over the weekend with Grandson, Everett
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Fun over the weekend! Mandy brought bubbles for Everett and Yasmine the
black lab got into the fun..
Dad got him ready to go outside.
Found the train th...
NOTHING
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Page painting of the letter O
I am working on seven page paintings. I go back and forth with collage
and drawing. They will spell out the word NOTHING w...
Decorated Envelopes
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I've been getting lots of good mail recently in the form of decorated
envelopes. These great envelopes mostly contained deposits for a workshop
that's comi...
Janet & Charles - Happy Anniversary!
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Very heart-felt happy anniversary wishes to one of my favorite couples!
Their fantastic wedding was travel themed as they met on a tour and they've
travele...
Impossible To Be Inside
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Everytime I visit my garden I find it almost impossible spend time in my
office. Had to put that thought into a quick lettering piece for today.
2 Mary With Love
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I tell people that I am not interested in scrapbooking and yet I seem to do
a whole lot of "scrapbooking"!!! I have seen awesome ideas from other
paper/fab...
Process Pictures
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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...
Demonstrating at ScrapbookLive
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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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NORTH SUBURBAN NEEDLE ARTS GUILD IN CHICAGO
The Rebel Calligrapher presents a Two day workshop and lecture!
I was made to feel so welcome and treated ...
Valentine pop-ups In Ft Meyers for SWFLN!
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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...
New Brush!
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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...
Exposition gravures et sculptures à Toulouse
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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...
PLAN campaign
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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...
New Addressing Style
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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...
Age as Art
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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...
A is for Anemone
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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 ...
Best wishes, Kelly and Zack
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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...
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Hi, A week from now I’ll be on a plane to Minnesota, where my American tour
kicks off. It’ll also bring me to Montana, Washington, Oregon and Illinois
for ...
A little bit more about my new machine
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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...
Calligraphy on "Blown" Eggs
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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...
Studio Spring Cleaning
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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...
White House Calligraphy
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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...
Baby Name Gift for a Friend
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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...
So Sweet!!!
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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...
White-throated Sparrow
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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
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[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...
Calligraphy video. January 2013
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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...
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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 ...
Guest Book Alternative
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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"!...
kickstarter...
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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...
Gilding Workshop Memphis 2012
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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...
NEW Bird Flourish #2
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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...
HELP!
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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...
My Madonna with text
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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...
To Share or Not to Share
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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...
Monoprinting play!
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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...
A thank you gift...
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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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*Guerlain- Noir G de Guerlain Refillable Mascara*
What will you remember most about the month of January 2012?
The things that come to mind most for me a...
New Work
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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...
New wedding calligraphy blog
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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...
Christmas Card 2011
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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...
“In a word”
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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...