Calligraphy

I have been doing calligraphy since 1974 when I first picked up a broad nibbed italic pen. I view calligraphy almost as a performance art, done as much for the doing as for the final product. In keeping with the idea of performance art, I usually don't use pencil lines to guide the lettering. Most things that I do are pretty ephemeral, however I do sometimes keep things for sentimental reasons. Here is a sampling of my work from about 1979 to about 1992. Much of this is quite unpolished.

There are now larger versions of these pieces that I have re-scanned at 100 dpi. These scans were done on a UMAX Vista-S6E scanner on a Pentium PC running Linux using the SANE scanner software package. Click the images to see the larger versions.