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About Me Member Deviant of Many Talents waterdelphFemale/Canada Recent Activity Deviant for 2 Years
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Still busy!

Sat Jun 13, 2009, 6:34 AM
I'm in quite a whirlwind. these days.
At work I'm training a huge team to use a new tool, plus receiving training on web documentaries.
Finished a calligraphy commission, did a bunch of calligraphy cards for family and working on bigger pieces for layout practice. Also exploring the zone between traditional, gestural and legibility, and hoping to add abstract in the mix.
Translating stuff for the big Worldcon coming to Montreal in August (www.anticipationsf.ca).
Many meetings of the Societé des calligraphes de Montréal (www.societedescalligraphes.org), culminating in my becoming the society's new webmaster. Since then, I've been working like crazy behind the scenes. The previous site was clunky to update, and the society decided to overhaul the look for its 30th anniversary this fall. More to come, this is exciting.

Strangest film I could imagine being done: a Quebecer is re-incarnated in India, and the guy sings Bollywood versions of French-Canadian songs (from pop to children to kitsch). Made-for-TV. For you French-speaking deviants, here's the news bit ([link]) and clips from the film ([link] [link] [link] and [link]).

  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: Saturday morning traffic
  • Reading: Banks, The Wasp Factory
  • Watching: Clips from Kanah D'Ha film
  • Playing: flying a kite
  • Eating: rye bread
  • Drinking: apple and cranberry juice

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  • Current Residence: Montreal Canada
  • Interests: calligraphy, cello, photography, swimming, reading
  • Favourite movie: Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfather
  • Favourite band or musician: David Byrne, Yo-Yo Ma, Balanescu Quartet, Susumu Hirasawa
  • Favourite genre of music: Cowboy Bebop, David Byrne, chamber music
  • Favourite artist: Andreas, Mucha, P Craig Russell,Yoshitaka Amano
  • Favourite poet or writer: W.B. Yeats, Neil Gaiman, Ian M. Banks
  • Operating System: mac
  • MP3 player of choice: low-tech CD
  • Wallpaper of choice: Japanese-style wave I designed
  • Favourite cartoon character: Capricorne, Black Jack
  • Tools of the Trade: dip pen, ruling pen, watercolour, camera

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thank you for faves:)
you have a nice gallery.
i'm just the beginner of calligraphy - where you get inspiration ...
your works are very nice :)
Thanks for the nice comments.
I have many sources of inspiration: mostly books on calligraphy and on watercolor techniques.
I also make splashes on a page when I warm up before doing a clean calligraphy, and experiment on scrap paper. Some of the better-looking smudges and letters can be used later on. :-)
thanks for replying :)

any website you inspired .....
:iconominousthankxyou:

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"to get squares, you gotta give squares" (Robert Fischer)
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Thanks for the favorites. You've got some real nice calligraphy work.
Keep the ink rolling! :)
thank you :)

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"to get squares, you gotta give squares" (Robert Fischer)
blog | T Y P | Tom-R
hey, I didn't realize you were from Montreal when I found flea! Thats pretty cool actually, I'm trying to get into calligraphy myself.

Still just learning alphabets and strokes though, nowhere near as good as you :)
If you can get to the Grande Bibliothèque, they have a really good section on calligraphy. A lot of what I learned came from there. And if you want to meet other calligraphers, La Société des Calligraphes de Montréal has meetings and organizes lots of workshops. Happy lettering!
Very nice gallery. I love your ruling pen artwork.

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