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| Finished art, 14" x 17" |
Song of Solomon: timeless love poetry in contemporary calligraphy.
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Original thumbnail
sketch, 2" x 3" |
Sometimes the letters themselves tell you how to lay them out. After a few drafts with these four rose stems, it became clear that I should just arrange the lines of letters to enable the greatest number of ascenders and descenders express themselves as leaves and thorns.
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By letting the ascender of d opt to follow the
Celtic style, I introduced a natural curve that
looked more like the way a leaf grows from a stem. |
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| Two different Y swashes. |
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| Even the citation can resemble a leaf. |
The details shown here differ a little because I rendered this whole design twice. It's almost impossible for calligraphers to copy a design slavishly--the pen just has too many ideas to try out.
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