by Heather | Jul 2, 2020 | Calligraphy, Featured, Mindful Living
Do you ever find yourself stuck in the comparison trap? You scroll endlessly through Instagram, swooning over impossibly beautiful photos of calligraphy and other artwork that you have carefully curated in your feed, and you start feeling this pit in your stomach that...
by Heather | Jun 8, 2020 | Calligraphy, Featured
The last two months have been quite busy around here. In April, shortly after my last post, I launched a free international virtual calligraphy camp called Kalli Camp Live. This was an EPIC event that involved 20 instructors from 7 countries who taught 33 classes LIVE...
by Heather | Apr 6, 2020 | Calligraphy, Featured, Worksheets
One of the more challenging parts of calligraphy–once you feel like you have conquered the letterforms–can be learning the correct spacing. One of my favorite ways to do this is to practice tracing quotes and phrases. Doing so really gets your hand used to making...
by Heather | Mar 31, 2020 | Calligraphy, Calligraphy Basics, Featured, Tutorials
What’s the first thing you usually write when trying out a new pen? Your name? The kind of pen it is? I write all sorts of random things when I get a new pen. When you get a new pointed pen, however, the last thing you need to write is your name. Or any other...
by Heather | Mar 23, 2020 | Calligraphy, Calligraphy Basics, Featured, Getting Started, Tutorials
Do you ever struggle getting your letters or strokes to have a consistent slant? Or, maybe they are consistently…wrong. There is a very simple fix for this, and I’m going to tell you how to do it in this article. Our last three basics articles introduced...
by Heather | Mar 23, 2020 | Calligraphy, Calligraphy Basics, Featured, Pointed Pens, Tutorials
In my first two articles on dip pen basics, we covered the very introductory material necessary to get started with pointed pen calligraphy. Some of these topics included pen anatomy, how the pen works, and how to prep and clean your nibs. Once you know these basics,...
