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I want to share with you now some of the things that can be done with just the Roman capitals.
Not bringing in the italic which is something that some people think is such a part of calligraphy.
Okay, it is, but the Romans have a certain character. They're very dignified, or at least
the monumental Roman is. We can do anything we want with them actually. But this is an
example. This is a giclee print. This is a new kind of printing process that makes calligraphers
like me really happy, because I can have one or two of these done at a time. But this it
started out, this is called the winged alphabet. And this started out as a commission. And
then of course it's still my copyright, so I went ahead and I made some giclee prints
of this. This is available for you. But what I'd like you to notice is that in a way, this
is a subtle calligraphy lesson. But look, what I've done here is I've actually done
the letters themselves in the negative. So I haven't actually drawn the letters themselves.
And down here, there is a list of what the birds are. But maybe you'd like to try to
guess. So you know what you can do? You can just press the pause button. Okay, now this
is a message that a friend asked me to do one time. Learn to listen, listen to learn.
And in this case what I did, this is only a color copy. He has the original. But see
what I've done here is I've painted these letters to looks as if they're maybe gold.
So that's a matter of yellows and oranges and stuff. Okay, and a while back, I had to
do a little poster for a picnic. So this is, this is basically still the Roman and the
poster, on the poster, of course, this was greatly photo mechanically reduced, but I'd
like to point out to you that these little decorative elements right here, these are
called acanthus leaves. And we will get into acanthus, the acanthus leaf as a decorative
element a little bit later. And lastly, I'd like to show you the, the flaming alphabet,
which was, which I did on request from my five year old friend, Bennett, who is a wonderful
person. And he asked me for this and so this is what I came up with. Now this is just a
copy. And so what I gave him was a copy and I laminated the copy so that he could carry
it around with him.