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I enjoy lettering quotes. This is part of a poem by Mary Oliver. It was done as a postcard that I mailed to a friend--it's her favorite quote.
Sepia Pitt pen and watercolor.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets
Started the lettering on the rusty custom Harley project.. Applying 1-shot imitation gold, and need at least a couple of layers, as the "canvas" is pretty rough.. before the gold size and the gold leaf..
Super close up of some modern calligraphy I've been working on today : ) Drawn using a Sakura Micron fine liner.
edited by W.E.Messenger & W.H.New.
Scarborough, Prentice Hall Canada Incorporated, [december] 1993. ISBN o-13-534777-7.
7 x 8-15/16, 859 sheets white thin bond perfectbound into glossy PVC white card wrappers, all except inside covers & 9 pp (ii, final 4 leaves) printed black offset with 3-colour process addition to outside covers.
cover lettering by David Rankin.
51o contributors ID'd:
Chinua Achebe, John Adams, Fleur Adcock, Joseph Addison, Mark Akenside, A.R.Ammons, John Armstrong, Matthew Arnold, Roger Ascham, John Ashbery, Mary Astell, Margaret Atwood, Dorothy Auchterlonie, W.H.Auden, Margaret Avison, Francis Bacon, Jaboc Bailey, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, William Barnes, James K.Baxter, John Beaumont, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Aphra Behn, Louise Bennett, Jeremy Bentham, E.C.Bentley, George Berkeley, James Berry, John Betjeman, Sujata Bhatt, Ambrose Bierce, Earle Birney, Elizabeth Bishop, Bill Bissett, William Blake, Susanna Blamire, Valerie Bloom, Eaven Boland, James Boswell, John Bourchier, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Nicholas Breton, Robert Bridges, Robert Bringhurst, Emily Brontë, Francis Moore Brooke, Henry Brooke, Rupert Brooke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas Browne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, William Cullen Bryant, Buhkwujjenene, John Bunyan, Edmund Burke, Robert Burns, Frances Burney, Samuel Butler, Samuel Cellarius Butler, Sebastian Cabot, Cædmon, Thomas Campion, Thomas Carew, Henry Carey, William Carleton, Bliss Carman, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Carlyle, Elizabeth Carter, Margaret Cavendish, James Cawthorn, William Caxton, Geoffrey Chaucer, G.K.Chesterton, Mary Chudleigh, Amy Clampitt, John Clare, Gillian Clarke, Lucille Clifton, Arthur Hugh Clough, Mary Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Collier, William Collins, Joseph Conrad, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Wendy Cope, William Johnson Cory, Charles Cotton, Jeni Couzyn, Abraham Cowley, William Cowper, Stephen Crane, Adelaide Crapsey, Joan Crate, Robert Creeley, Nicholas Culpeper, E.E.Cummings, Allen Curnow, Frederick D'Aguiar, Samuel Daniel, Mary Whateley Darwall, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, John Davies, St.John De Crévecoeur, Daniel Defoe, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Deloney, Michel Eyquem De Montaigne, John Denham, Christopher Dewdney, Charles Dickens, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Dixon, Austin Dobson, John Donne, Hilda Doolittle, Charles D'Orléans, Rita Dove, Ernest Dowson, Michael Drayton, William Drummond, John Dryden, W.E.B.Du Bois, Stephen Duck, Robert Duncan, Sara Jeannette Duncan, William Dunbar, Douglas Dunn, Edward Dyer, John Dyer, John Earle, Sarah Fyge Egerton, George Eliot, T.S.Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Desiderius Erasmus, Louise Erdrich, John Evelyn, U.A.Fanthorpe, William Faulkner, Owen Felltham, Henry Fielding, Anne Finch, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edward FitzGerald, Jane Flanders, Phineas Fletcher, John Florio, Samuel Foote, E.M.Forster, Benjamin Franklin, John Freeth, Philip Freneau, Robert Frost, Thomas Fuller, Mary Fullerton, Alice Fulton, John Galt, Isabella Gardner, George Gascoigne, John Gay, Zulfikar Ghose, Humphrey Gifford, W.S.Gilbert, Mary Gilmore, Nikki Giovanni, Louise Glück, Oliver Goldsmith, Peter Goldsworthy, Barnaby Googe, Nadine Gordimer, George Gordon, Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Graves, John Gray, Thomas Gray, Dora Greenwell, Augusta Gregory, Fulke Greville, Bartholomew Griffin, Ralph Gustafson, William Habington, Richard Hakluyt, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Joseph Hall, Thomas Hardy, John Harington, Tony Harrison, Gwen Harwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayman, William Hazlitt, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Hearne, Felicia Hemans, Ernest Hemingway, William Ernest Henley, Robert Henryson, Edward Herbert, George Herbert, Mary Sidney Herbert, Robert Herrick, John Heywood, Daryl Hine, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Hoccleve, Raphael Holinshed, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Homer, Thomas Hood, A.D.Hope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A.E.Housman, Henry Howard, Langston Hughes, Ted Hughes, Leigh Hunt, Washington Irving, Henry James, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Jennings, Sarah Orne Jewett, Paulette Jiles, Samuel Johnson, Alice Jones, D.G.Jones, Mary Jones, Ben Jonson, James Joyce, John Keats, Frances Anne Kemble, Margery Kempe, Anne Killigrew, Henry King, Charles Kingsley, Mary Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Carolyn Kizer, A.M.Klein, Arun Kolatkar, Charles Lamb, Archibald Lampman, Walter Savage Landor, John Dunmore Lang, Amelia Lanyer, Philip Larkin, D.H.Lawrence, Henry Lawson, Irving Layton, Stephen Leacock, Mary Leapor, Ursula K.Le Guin, Roger L'Estrange, Denise Levertov, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Abraham Lincoln, Anne Lindsay, David Lindsay, Dorothy Livesay, John Locke, Thomas Lodge, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Richard Lovelace, Robert Lowell, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Norman MacCaig, Dorothy Mackellar, Jay Macpherson, Bathsua Makin, Bernard Malamud, Thomas Malory, David Malouf, Thomas Malthus, Eli Mandel, John Mandeville, James Clarence Mangan, Bill Manhire, Katherine Mansfield, Christopher Marlowe, Publius Vergilius Maro, Harriet Martineau, Andrew Marvell, John Masefield, Patrio Mastix, Henry Mayhew, James McAuley, John McCrae, Herman Melville, George Meredith, W.S.Merwin, W.E.Messenger, Aice Meynell, Edna St.Vincent Millay, John Milton, Mary Russell Mitford, E.G.Moll, Mary Wortley Montagu, Susanna Moodie, Marianne Moore, Thomas Moore, Pamela Mordecai, Hannah More, Thomas More, Edwin Morgan, Thomas Morley, Charles Morris, Mervyn Morris, Anthony Munday, Alice Munro, Les Murray, V.S.Naipaul, Thomas Nashe, Publius Ovidius Naso, John Shaw Neilson, Howard Nemerov, Edith Nesbit, W.H.New, John Henry Newman, bpNichol, Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Alden Nowlan, Jonathan Odell, Aelfric Of Eynsham, Julian Of Norwich, Gabriel Okara, John Oldham, Mary Oliver, Charles Olson, Michael Ondaatje, George Orwell, Dorothy Osborne, Richard Outram, Thomas Overbury, Wilfred Owen, P.K.Page, Thomas Paine, Francis Parkman, Linda Pastan, Walter Pater, Andrew Barton Paterson, Coventry Patmore, Thomas Love Peacock, George Peele, Katherine Fowler Philips, Marge Piercy, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Sol T.Plaatje, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pope, Peter Porter, Ezra Pound, E.J.Pratt, Thomas Pringle, Matthew Prior, Al Purdy, Francis Quarles, Craig Raine, Kathleen Raine, Bess Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Allan Ramsay, David Rankin, John Crowe Ransom, Henry Reed, Bill Reid, Joshua Reynolds, Adrienne Rich, Laura Riding, Elizabeth Rigby, Charles G.D.Roberts, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, Woodes Rogers, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Muriel Rukeyser, Carol Rumens, John Ruskin, Andrew Salkey, Robert Samber, Carl Sandburg, George Sandys, Siegfried Sassoon, George Savile, Olive Schreiner, Dennis Scott, Duncan Campbell Scott, F.R.Scott, R.F.Scott, Walter Scott, Charles Sedley, Sipho Sepalma, Mongane Wally Serote, Robert W.Service, Anna Seward, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shenstone, Philip Sidney, Edith Sitwell, John Skelton, Christopher Smart, Charlotte Smith, Ian Crichton Smith, Ken Smith, Stevie Smith, Sydney Smith, Mary Somerville, Gary Soto, Robert Southey, Robert Southwell, Wole Soyinka, Catherine Helen Spence, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Thomas Sprat, William Stafford, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Wallace Stevens, Anne Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jennifer Strauss, James Stuart, John Suckling, May Swenson, Jonathan Swift, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Arthur Symons, Rabindrinath Tagore, Catherine Talbot, Edward Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, John Taylor, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Colleen Thibaudeau, Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas, R.S.Thomas, James Thomson, James B.V.Thomson, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Chidiock Tichborne, Eva Tihanyi, Elizabet Tollet, Augustus Montague Toplady, Thomas Traherne, Frances Trollope, Elizabeth Tudor, George Turberville, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Tennyson Turner, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, William Tyndale, [Crispyn Van De Passe], Henry Vaughan, Thomas Vaux, Edmund Waller, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Izaak Walton, Joseph Warton, Isaac Watts, Phyllis Webb, Nathaniel Weekes, Fay Weldon, Archie Weller, Charles Wesley, Rebecca West, Anne Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E.B.White, Gilbert White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, Helen Maria Williams, William Carlos Williams, John Wilmot, Yvor Winters, George Wither, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, Henry Wotton, James Wright, Judith Wright, Mary Wroth, Thomas Wyatt, John Wyclif, Arthur Yap, William Butler Yeats, Edward Young.
Nichol inclusions (poetry):
i) from "The Sorrows of Saint Orm" (from Book 1 (ie "saint orm you were a stranger with the first 6 lines lopped off, p.1515 (begins "me &"))
ii) from "Book of Common Prayer" (from Book 2) (pp.1515>1516, in 2 parts:
–1) "it all ends" (pp.1515>1516)
–2) "everything i say", p.1516))
iii) from "Sons & Divinations" (Book 2) (p.1516, in 2 parts:
–1) "finally come to see" (ie "mid-summer solstice over the heel stone", lines 1>13 & 34>43 lopped off)
–2) "oh i do listen saint rand" (ie "what trapped bodies did you find there", lines 1>14 lopped off)
iv) from "Book 3" (pp.1517>1518; in 4 parts in scrambled order:
–1) "there is no desire for speech" (12 lines, p.1517)
–2) "the ear the ear it is all there" (ie "more than meets the eye meets the ear", lines 13>26, p.1517)
–3) "more than meets the eye meets the ear" (ie lines 1>12, p.1517; what the fuck is wrong with these people?)
–4) "in vocation" (11 lines, p.1518)
v) "from "Book 4" (3 excerpts, p.1518: lines 568>587 (beginning "the is M"), 1286>1295 (beginning "the contradictions are there in a lifetime"), 1296>1314 (beginning "the w hat's low call"))
vi) "Chain 10" (from Book 5) (concrete poem, p.1519)
vii) from "Briefly: The Birth/Death Cycle – Hour 15" (from Book 6) (ie Hour 17: 5:35 to 6:35 p.m., horribly butchered to include only lines 42>67 & line 76 (last line))
viii) from "gIFTS: The Martyrology Book(s) 7&" bp: if (ie "sacrum", p.152o)
also includes:
ix) Nichol, B[arrie] P[hilip], unattributed (prose capsule bio, p.1565)
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a fine example of academesis, if the Nichol bowdlerizations are any indication. small wonder this copy ended up in the local St.Vincent de Paul for $3.5o
a selection of my handwriting styles. All words and the shadows of the word written with different writing tools with exception the shadow behind »Advertising« with copy-paste.
Detail of a map showing the Iberian Peninsula in Weltatlas für die Schulen in Bayern. München: Bayerischer Schulbuch-Verlag, 1947.
Names of smaller cities are in a sloping sans serif, names of rivers in a left-leaning sans. Names of seas are in left-leaning sans-serif caps with contrast.
Public Domain: Studio handbook lettering over 250 pages, lettering, design and layouts, new alphabets