Category Archives: Calligraphy

Happy Birthday Mr. H!

Today is John Hancock’s birthday, and not coincidentally it is also National Handwriting Day. I have also just discovered that anthropologie has a tumblr site full of links to goodies called etymologie. I am not sure how I did not know about this site before. This month they’re featuring all things handwritten, and today my…

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Favorite hand lettering work of 2012

I did a ton of calligraphy commissions in 2012, more than I could have expected, and probably more than I should have taken on! In fact most of the projects were completed between January and May so that I could better focus on wedding photography. I lettered menu boards, save the dates, invitations, envelopes, logos,…

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New logo?

I’ve had pretty much the same logo since the very beginning, with a few minor changes like making the cat shape hand-drawn and adding a watercolor texture to the text. Last week I was doing some hand-lettered logo work for a fellow photographer when I started scribbling “fat orange cat” for myself…and now I’m thinking I…

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From the Desk to the Bag

On vellum paper Scanned and prepped Ready to go out on the town! I won’t be at Jen’s film & digi photography workshop in Sonoma but I’m excited to be able to contribute some calligraphy! Bingley thanks you for the souvenir bag!

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Wedding Invitations

It’s always a pleasure when I get to contribute to a couple’s wedding day beyond “just” the photography. Today I’m sharing two wedding invitation suites with some very different hand-lettered elements done by me. It starts with a bunch of scribbles, a scan and clean-up in Photoshop, and a hand-off to the printer (in this…

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