Day 50: tue, 3 dec 2013. I am quite excited for Richard Aschenbrand to review my portfolio.
Frank Blokland’s “First Principles of Calligraphy”. Too cool.
The children explored the limited repetition of movements required to make the ‘Foundational Hand’, by exploring Blokland’s ‘LetterModel’. They filled in the ‘primary harmonic model’ (leaving out the ‘secondary harmonic model’, which maps the adapted characters from the capitals, i.e. k,s,v,w,x,y,z) using colored pencils. This was meant to create a notion of the fact that calligraphy comprises more than just the copying of ‘hands’, and was the first step to generate real insight. Above all, the young students enjoyed doing this.
Originally reposted from
acheiropoietos
Heap on His sacred altarSing to the Lord of harvest, John Monsell, 1866
the gifts His goodness gave,
the golden sheaves of harvest,
the souls He died to save:
your hearts lay down before Him,
when at His feet ye fall,
and with your lives adore Him
Who gave His life for all.