It hit me like a sucker punch. The time ran out before I was done re-examining my flagged questions, and before I could protest, there was my bright red failing score broadcast across my computer screen. What?! Wait! I wasn’t finished with that question! Too bad. Time...
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...
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...
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...
At long last, I finally have a new calligrapher to introduce to you! Meet Carrie Ellis, a calligrapher and educator from Weatherford, Texas. I first met Carrie on Instagram shortly after she had been featured in her local newspaper for bringing back the lost art of...
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...
