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\Names of Jesus\ Christmas Print
In my home there’s an old tattered King James Version of the Bible given to me by my aunt on the occasion of my graduation from high school. While leafing through it several years ago, I came across a long forgotten section called the Names and Titles of Christ. It was early Autumn, so in…
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Vespers
Vespers was one of many poems composed by William Stafford, who served for many years as the poet laureate of Oregon. As I pondered over this poem it seemed to me that it foretold the ending of the life cycle for all of us. And so it was fitting to enter this piece in a…
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The Making of a 10-Year Project
Many calligraphers have attempted the “Love” piece, so when we began the project some 10 years ago, we were challenged with creating something different. We decided to begin with a very large “L” as the dominant feature followed by the word “Love” as a reverse blue with a gold surround. The scroll work is traditional…
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My Zanerian Experience
[This is an excerpt of my article in Bound & Lettered, Volume 11, Number 2, Winter 2014.] As a boy, I had terrible handwriting. This was not happily received at home, as my father had, at one time, been a penmanship teacher in the Philadelphia public schools. However, The Educator, a periodical from the Zaner-Bloser…
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Christmas – one of Vivaldi’s 4 Seasons?
The Christmas season has a way of bringing back memories — and I have quite a bit of past from which to draw! Lately, I’ve been thinking about one of Heirloom Artists’ best Christmas card customers — Bill Hollingsworth and his wife Kay of Issaquah, Washington. Bill was a minister and my wife Jean’s brother;…
