by Heather | Mar 10, 2024 | Calligraphy, Featured
Are you tired of practicing for hours on end only for your copperplate calligraphy to look the same as it did last week or last month? Here’s what will NOT produce mastery: Trying a different nib Adding gum arabic to your ink Practicing for longer hours Sure....
by Heather | Apr 12, 2023 | Calligraphy, Calligraphy Basics, Featured, Ink
Does this ever happen to you? You’re sitting at your calligraphy desk, writing along with your pointed pen, when all of a sudden the ink just stops flowing. No warning, no obvious reason, it just stops. You pick up your pen and look at it. It looks fine. Nib is full...
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...
