I just started a new calligraphy class with Brigitte — this time I’m learning Blackletter!

I am so bad about creating projects for myself to stay in practice.  I think it’s because there is something almost too-permanent about ink on paper.  It’s hard to commit!   However, for quite awhile I’ve wanted to design a last-name-logo for Dave and myself, and this would be a really fun hand to use for that.  Then sometime next year after we (hopefully!) move, I want to get it made into an obnoxiously-large custom return address stamp.  If it goes well, I think such a stamp will become my “signature housewarming gift.”  Cute, right?

This is my miniature inspiration board for our stamp:

Blackletter Alphabet by amazing calligraphy genius, Ward Dunham; Return Address Stamp by the wonderful Maybelle Imasa-Stukuls.

In the meantime, here’s some homework:

Yikes… I really need to work on that Z…

–Tara