this just in

i have another part of this one to post. a couple weeks ago, i received a thin sheet of paper in the mail. it had a beautiful name and address. i found out that it had been glued to an envelope, but, had become detached in the mail, so the envelope and contents went back to the sender and i received the beautiful piece of paper, which i have been meaning to scan and post...or maybe i did and forgot...either way, it was beautiful and there is a longer story that goes with it.

and then....yesterday, i was commenting online back and forth with the artist...who mentioned that she had resent the envelope that was returned to her. i had been too sick to even go to the studio, so i was not aware that it had arrived. this morning, i called my mom to tell her i was recuperated enough to come to the studio. she said..."Oh, you have the most beautiful piece of mail that I have ever seen. It came on Saturday and I just wanted to stare at it all day."

i wish you all could see it in real life. it is gorgeous. and the best part is, i can take a little credit for the artist being so good. she took a couple of my zany lettering workshops and she picked up just the right amount of zippadeedoodah to make her very highly trained traditional lettering into something that is splendid.

i have vowed to not lapse into personal stuff...but the part about calling my mom to say i was coming to the studio might have not made sense....the reason my mom is getting my studio mail is because she lives in a duplex and my studio is the other half of the duplex. so, she brings in the mail when i am not there.

and back to the artist surpassing her teacher. i believe that her work makes me into a zen master, because only the zen masters are good enough to create students who are better than themselves. this is probably a little like fractured fairy tales. fractured logic, perhaps? anyhow...i'm just thrilled to get mail like this.

this blog is about inspiration...so, i hope this inspires people to outline and decorate...always a fun way to approach lettering.