After my conversation with the two ‘new calligraphers’ last week, I started thinking about why anyone would even want to learn calligraphy in this day of high-speed internet, texting, tweeting, and yes – blogs.  After all, the computer is capable of turning out pages of perfect text that can be customized in any way the [...]

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I had an experience last week that I thought was worth sharing.  I was at a social gathering held in conjunction with a nationally known art show, and struck up a conversation with an interesting couple from out of town.  In the course of the conversation, I mentioned that I was a calligrapher as well [...]

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Our third young calligrapher is Abigail, and she has been with our guild for several years.  She started coming to guild meetings when she was 11, and she is now 16.
Abigail is also represented in our show  ‘Written on the Wind’.  She has a perpetual calendar page (August), done when she was just 12, and [...]

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Grace is one of the newest members of WindWriters.  Like Claire, she just turned 11, and also like Claire she has a calligraphy piece in ‘Written on the Wind’.  Grace and Claire are the best of friends and do many things together.
Grace has not yet started learning formal calligraphy , although she has tried out [...]

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, we have three young calligraphers in our guild and I would like to introduce them.  The youngest is Claire, who turned 11 a few weeks ago.  Claire has been learning calligraphy from several members of our guild, expecially from Linda, who gave her a wonderful start.
Claire put two [...]

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