RUBY

What on earth posessed me to add the word "ruby" to my list of ideas for my 365 project?!  Well, I can tell you I spent a LOT of time thinking about it before executing this little cinquain.
(poetry form using 5 lines and following these rules:
                     1st line: a word -- noun
                     2nd line: two words related to subject
                     3rd line: three adjectives to expand word
                     4th line:  four word phrase related to word
                     5th line  one word that is a synonym for word

I was inspired to create another tag cinquain...but will wait to post it until after the next calligraphy meeting.  We are challenging ourselves to "Let's do Lettering" and set creating a tag cinquain as this month's project.  I hope the other members come with some too!  Looking at it now, I see several less than wonderful lettering issues.  Perhaps I will re-do it soon.  Not sure.  I am nearly ready to jet off to visit my 8 grandchildren and so art-making is on the back burner for a short while. 

Calligraphy Collaboration

I belong to a calligraphy group: Scripts & Scribes.  The members are amazing and creative folks.  One of our members, Vicki, a very talented calligrapher, presented the program at our meeting last night.  I thought I would include photos of our work to create a little (2"x2") Round Robin Alphabet Book.  We each came with an entire alphabet lettered ahead of time (sized to fit on a 2"x2" page).  We created covers and then exchanged letters so everyone will have a wee book with letters made by others in the group.  I share photos of our work in progress and my book almost ready to glue pages in place.  Look for photos of finished books next month when we bring them to meeting for "show and tell"


Dave made a "flying pigs" cover & a  black letter alphabet




Dee lettered "on the spot" --BUSY life!  great uncial with gold embellishments




Joann's gilded letters in her celtic knotwork frames - wow!




Vicki -our teacher- working on her cover




Kathy's elegant pointed pen work




Linda signing her innovative letter images




Linda's letters...see what I mean about innovative?!




Marilyn's amazing roundhand on steroids!  Her work is so lovely!




Myong's letters were hand-watercolored and each beautifully rendered




Pat used what she grows in her garden to illustrate each letter-- a wee colored drawing of a veggie  on each




having fun with letters!




Vicki's alphabet...she created it several years ago and brought it out of seclusion for this occasion--HOORAY!



my wee book spread out ready to glue letters in place



 

 

Ring

The frame: "ring".   well, that leaves things wide open, now, doesn't it?! 
"ring around the rosie"
"ring-ring, telephone ring!" 
"with this ring...." 
ring of fire, 
(w)ring my hands..so I spent a few days pondering. 

I was thinking of all the circles of influence each of us have.  How inter-connected our lives are.  I chose the color scheme to reflect the warm/hot and cool/cold aspects of our interaction.  Not much is neutral. Some things are very pale, others intense. Some intersections are slight others very large.  The ideas and implications keep coming.