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So what's the trick? The trick is alright, that you keep having to turn the; turn your
circle so that you're coming straight towards the center. So first I sketched in with a
pencil to make sure that I was going to manage to get this whole thing working out right.
It's not like you can do it when you cut out with a straight line. It's just must more
off the top of your head. So I would just keep turning the paper and going like this.
Now here's another example of a piece that I did writing in a circle, this is called
"Virtue's Reward". And here's yet another example of writing in a circle when I chose
not to have the writing go around the circle but just to be within the circle. This is
another one of those reverse designs, I started out with black letters on white ground and
had it photo-mechanically reversed. And finely I'd like to draw your attention to this piece
which I did with a big heart and the letters are actually negative spaces; so I traced
the letters. And in this case rather than having the wording go all the way around,
go all the way around; I did "Treasure" this way and then "Your Island" this way. So I'm
not quite sure that I pleased everybody by having this be in black and white but I think
my original idea was that this would be a color in. So that's what I have to say about
calligraphing in a circle. Next we're going to do some more circle work.