One more piece- all done in pencil on several huge sheets of Fabriano Artistico paper pieced together.  This artist, Chris Laporte, from Grand Rapids, won Artprize two years ago.

We visited Artprize in Grand Rapids, Michigan last weekend and what an experience to see all kinds of artwork that had been submitted.  This piece, done by Scribes Six, calligraphers from Michigan, was a collaborative work done on full-sized deerskin vellum to emulate the way monks created manuscripts centuries ago.  Called The Power of Words, " it will last for centuries, just as a Book of Hours has remained exquisite since its creation in the 13th century".

I will post more photos of other works we also saw.

Two more pages from the Monica Dengo workshop.  The garden lettering is my favorite -hope to add to the pages to finish the book with maybe some quotes or words on the open areas of the pages.

Monica Dengo's calligraphy class with the Chicago Calligraphy Collective.  We worked with sumi ink and water and used various tools with all sorts of styles, sometimes using our non-dominant hand, sometimes making letters and sometimes doing gestural lines.   Then we put our papers together in book form that had pages that "pushed out" and also tried a wrap-around cover that was very unique.
More photos on my penandpaintsartwork blog.

Calligraphy for Wedding invitations and place cards.  The two styles are italic (the large envelope- Mr and Mrs) and Copperplate (script) on the rest.

Prayer Flags at the LaGrange Art League Gallery!  Check out prayerflagproject.com for more information!

Finished Prayer Flags.  April couldn't make it that day, so the others are from Cynthia, who added Japanese coins and buttons to hers and a little lace circle.  Joyce had stamped a star for the red white and blue theme and bells.  Peggy added glitter to one of hers and tried one on denim.Colleen had used an irridescent copper color on hers and added a word.  Karen did one at home with her granddaughter who enjoyed the project!  

Donna came the last class and started hers late.