tomorrow there will be a rough layout. i did this one after the rough, thinking i had it figured out. then, i kept changing my mind. the bottom line is this...black is not very forgiving. if i take a lot of time and go back and outline everything, i will probably be ok with this one. but, as i will mention tomorrow, fitting neuland into rectangles is a bit of a puzzle, and not for beginners, so as much as i like the kokoschka poster, we'll try a different direction on thursday. by the time i got to the zip, i was ready for some visual relief, hence the skinny numbers. and then the space between the the L and S on WILSON was pitiful, so we took a swirlydoodle off roy's shirt.
the second zip would have been better stacked like the first zip, but, i would have felt obligated to put on two stamps because they would have used way more than 44-cents of energy figuring out where to deliver this one. it breaks my rule about ease of reading the address.
if you are ever addressing a large 9x12-inch envelope, this would be a very nice way to go. it's all flush left, so you really do not have a fitting problem and you could make the final box last.
Thank you so much for giving us some lessons. I have had many calligraphy classes with different hands but never a class on Neuland. I have always had to rely on exemplars and was never very good at the curves! I am enjoying your posts. I love this Wilson envelope!!! We did something similar with non pressurized Romans in the Reggie class--many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment. Since you have had other lessons, you can have fun with Neuland and morph it many directions. There is pure Neuland, but then there are all the personalized ones and I think it lends itself to wonderful variations.
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