It completes the package :) I love looking at your journals and, more broadly, your work and seeing the world that you create as enhanced by your handwriting.
Now you’re talking...I love, love, love your writing about handwriting! I also have been playing with my handwriting since forever. Your examples are inspiring and beautiful. Though I’ve practiced “calligraphy hands” for years, I much prefer the freeer, looser thicks and thins of modern calligraphy...like your handwriting. I like the physical writing process and the feel of the pen or pencil on paper. It becomes meditative, and I can always tell what mood I’m in by the look of the letters on the page.
My neighbor’s mother made a living assessing people’s character from their handwriting...this was back in the 40’s/50s I think.
Completely self taught. I bet she would assess your character as sterling!
I love my handwriting. But when I practiced medicine, I let my signature get messy. We were warned about neat handwriting being so legible it might get you in trouble with a lawyer. I will use my handwriting more in my artwork! Though I think it will be foreign to most as time goes on, since cursive is no longer taught in schools. Thank you for this!
I have not been as bold with my handwriting in my 'sketch my day' journals. I have been focusing on the images. However, I do like playing with words, always have. So, your post is a good prompt to explore the world of text as shape, texture, color and pattern in a page of a journal or anything. Thank you. I also signed up for the draw your coffeemug/cup. That should be fun. Thank you for all the resources. Cheers
Ah! so jealous, I write on my cartoons and have to actively suppress how much I dislike my handwriting every time. I'm going to play with your idea of drawing the writing as I definitely write my writing and see if that feels different. Thank you! xo
I don't often write in works myself but that's because I don't like the way my writing looks. Others now, THAT's a whole different story! I like yours, I hate mine! *Laughs at myself* I have made works with writing in it a couple times in the past, just to try it out but again, I didn't like the way my writing looked. I suppose I'm a bit critical of myself. When I was younger, I did love writing letters to others! Did you love writing letters? Cursive came easily and although I am not a parent, it's HUGELY SAD to me knowing that kids today aren't being taught cursive. How will people know how to sign their names if their computers don't work? Printing your name isn't the same as signing it. My heart breaks knowing that some won't know how to sign their names. History is repeating itself in ways because long ago they didn't know how to write either and would sign with an X. How different will children be if they are never taught cursive? How much have things really changed? That's what I tend to wonder... I'm not a parent and I wonder that. Anyway, great post. I love your art!!! It makes me smile so thanks for sharing it!
The handwriting always balances your drawings so perfectly — just an incredibly eye-pleasing and appealing visual style! Also, which cafe in Toronto has the walls with your handwriting?
I have forever played with my handwriting! In middle school I spent a lot of time observing and mimicking other handwriting I found interesting, trying it on for size. Sometime in college I fell into a handwriting I've used fairly consistently since then that's somewhere between print and cursive. When I slow down, I can disconnect my letters and that's often the print I use for anything I need someone to actually read. Ha! I do wish I was better at embellishing my writing and have played some with getting better at brush lettering.
My oldest was in 2nd grade when school came home in 2020 and then we continued homeschooling, at first as a "one year" temporary solution and now we're four years in. That first year, when I was throwing spaghetti at the wall of learning at home, I bought her a cursive handbook. She hadn't taken any cursive in school at this point. Since then, each of my kids has gone on to learn cursive at home; both my boys started in second grade. My youngest's (he's in 2nd) is imperfect but ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE.
This was a particularly inspiring piece. I am reluctant to add writing to my art pieces. It's as though it takes a different space in my brain and I haven't been able to do both. I have my art sketchbooks and my writing journal, but don't combine them. I have a compilation of quotes but somehow it feels like work to select one and figure out the lettering. But I so admire your use of lettering and am quite intrigued by your comment about using lettering to add texture.
I love playing with text and lettering! Also I’m always inspired seeing your text in your artwork. It’s really beautiful in a way that’s not overdone and seems very natural.
It completes the package :) I love looking at your journals and, more broadly, your work and seeing the world that you create as enhanced by your handwriting.
Now you’re talking...I love, love, love your writing about handwriting! I also have been playing with my handwriting since forever. Your examples are inspiring and beautiful. Though I’ve practiced “calligraphy hands” for years, I much prefer the freeer, looser thicks and thins of modern calligraphy...like your handwriting. I like the physical writing process and the feel of the pen or pencil on paper. It becomes meditative, and I can always tell what mood I’m in by the look of the letters on the page.
My neighbor’s mother made a living assessing people’s character from their handwriting...this was back in the 40’s/50s I think.
Completely self taught. I bet she would assess your character as sterling!
Thanks for this post...so timely.
I love my handwriting. But when I practiced medicine, I let my signature get messy. We were warned about neat handwriting being so legible it might get you in trouble with a lawyer. I will use my handwriting more in my artwork! Though I think it will be foreign to most as time goes on, since cursive is no longer taught in schools. Thank you for this!
I have not been as bold with my handwriting in my 'sketch my day' journals. I have been focusing on the images. However, I do like playing with words, always have. So, your post is a good prompt to explore the world of text as shape, texture, color and pattern in a page of a journal or anything. Thank you. I also signed up for the draw your coffeemug/cup. That should be fun. Thank you for all the resources. Cheers
I relate to this so much! Maybe we are modern calligraphers?
So talented !
Ah! so jealous, I write on my cartoons and have to actively suppress how much I dislike my handwriting every time. I'm going to play with your idea of drawing the writing as I definitely write my writing and see if that feels different. Thank you! xo
Fascinating! Thank you for these charming and beautiful "writings."
I don't often write in works myself but that's because I don't like the way my writing looks. Others now, THAT's a whole different story! I like yours, I hate mine! *Laughs at myself* I have made works with writing in it a couple times in the past, just to try it out but again, I didn't like the way my writing looked. I suppose I'm a bit critical of myself. When I was younger, I did love writing letters to others! Did you love writing letters? Cursive came easily and although I am not a parent, it's HUGELY SAD to me knowing that kids today aren't being taught cursive. How will people know how to sign their names if their computers don't work? Printing your name isn't the same as signing it. My heart breaks knowing that some won't know how to sign their names. History is repeating itself in ways because long ago they didn't know how to write either and would sign with an X. How different will children be if they are never taught cursive? How much have things really changed? That's what I tend to wonder... I'm not a parent and I wonder that. Anyway, great post. I love your art!!! It makes me smile so thanks for sharing it!
The handwriting always balances your drawings so perfectly — just an incredibly eye-pleasing and appealing visual style! Also, which cafe in Toronto has the walls with your handwriting?
I love your handwriting!
I have forever played with my handwriting! In middle school I spent a lot of time observing and mimicking other handwriting I found interesting, trying it on for size. Sometime in college I fell into a handwriting I've used fairly consistently since then that's somewhere between print and cursive. When I slow down, I can disconnect my letters and that's often the print I use for anything I need someone to actually read. Ha! I do wish I was better at embellishing my writing and have played some with getting better at brush lettering.
My oldest was in 2nd grade when school came home in 2020 and then we continued homeschooling, at first as a "one year" temporary solution and now we're four years in. That first year, when I was throwing spaghetti at the wall of learning at home, I bought her a cursive handbook. She hadn't taken any cursive in school at this point. Since then, each of my kids has gone on to learn cursive at home; both my boys started in second grade. My youngest's (he's in 2nd) is imperfect but ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE.
This was a particularly inspiring piece. I am reluctant to add writing to my art pieces. It's as though it takes a different space in my brain and I haven't been able to do both. I have my art sketchbooks and my writing journal, but don't combine them. I have a compilation of quotes but somehow it feels like work to select one and figure out the lettering. But I so admire your use of lettering and am quite intrigued by your comment about using lettering to add texture.
I love playing with text and lettering! Also I’m always inspired seeing your text in your artwork. It’s really beautiful in a way that’s not overdone and seems very natural.
Lovely post, visually and otherwise.
I wish I could inject your handwriting abilities into my hands!!!
What a great post, I love hearing how and where your passion for handwriting stemmed from.
I’m not much of a hand writer and also find it hard to read my own handwriting when I write snail mail…
I do love adding quotes in my art (my own and of famous people) and feel I can make them more decorative on the page, but zine never really journaled.