I'm guessing Cathy used the technique where she wrote in walnut ink and then dropped some kind of gold fluid on top of it while it was still wet. She enclosed a note saying it was homework from a John Stevens' class where students were instructed to make the thin strokes thick - and the thick strokes thin. The Ben Shahn letters do that, too. This is definitely something I should put on my to-do list for when I pull out the ink and nibs. The style below looks like loads of fun - but also more challenging.
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This is a snippet from The Morgan Library's website where they have soooo many things to see.
I found it by following a path from info about a class to be taught by Risa Gettler through the San Diego chapter of the Society of Scribes - a California calligraphy guild. It's a Zoom class in March. Details are here:
You need to be a member of the guild - and there are only 20 in the class - so - most of us will just have to cobble together our own interpretations of the style. I'm up for channeling my inner Visigoth :-) Google added that capitalization. Interesting. No time to research Visigoths - maybe later.
If you just want to look at hi-res images of the book - here's a link:
Here is an image from the invitation to the class:
The last one is so nicely done (although it took me a minute to understand the last line, despite the earlier visual clue)
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