Although one day seems very much like the next in these lockdown/quarantine times, I do have my daily calligraphy to keep me honest. When I run out of inspiration I grab my book by the German calligrapher Denise Lach and try to find an illustration that looks interesting. And then I shamelessly copy it, maybe several times, trying it on for comfort to see if I can make it mine instead of hers. I'll show you three different examples in posts this week.
Here's what I copied from, what I would describe as whimsically drawn letters:
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| Denise Lach, Schrift Spiele |
And here are several days worth of my alphabets. I have found that 26 letters seem to fill one of my pages quite nicely.
Lach's calligraphy has a smaller range of colors than mine, but somehow looks snappier. I'm lazily working just from the bottles of ink that happen to be living on my dining room table. Yes, I could probably root around in the studio and come up with some paints in different colors, or maybe colored pencils, but that would require energy, a quality that I don't seem to have a whole lot of lately.
I kind of like these alphabets, but I'm not sure they're going anywhere. Maybe I should be trying to contort my letters into more non-traditional shapes, or trying to find more colors. Or maybe find just one color, as Lach did.
You can see all my daily calligraphy here.
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