Posts tagged Copperplate

Certainly when I graduated from University, my first plan of action wasn't to be a calligrapher. I had but the most cursory knowledge of it, aside from a kit I had gotten for Christmas many years ago. As an avid historian (my study of choice), I had run into a fair number of manuscripts to admire, but the thought of doing anything remotely like that simply didn't register as an option.

Yet here I am, with my own studio stocked with a plethora of ink, a mountain of nibs, and (almost) more paper than books in my library.

About the CalligrapherRebecca BruyereFebruary 6, 2017Calligraphy, Copperplate, Calligraphy 101, Resources

The Cutting Edge of Paper

So you're getting married! Or you have another amazing and awe-inspiring event to dress and impress. You've set the date, the venue, decided on the all-important colour scheme (or color for my fellow Americans). You've settled on lovely, hand written calligraphy for your envelopes and placecards, and have found the most delightful glossy paper with a pearly sheen made from the tears of mermaids. Your ballpoint pen seems to write on them fine enough, so surely a more sophisticated style of writing will have no problem, right?

Would that it were so!

Calligraphy 101Rebecca BruyereJanuary 13, 2017Copperplate, Paper, Calligraphy Primer, Wedding Calligraphy