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Hereโs a quick hack that I use to help me and my students understand the lowercase alphabet and how to put letters together! Check the comments for a link to a free worksheet!
Does anyone have any favorite books on lettering and calligraphy? I know it's pretty foundational, but I found an opensource copy of George Bickham's Universal Penman on the internet archive. This books is still my go to for ornamental and decorative script: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008538056/mode/2up
that book is so incredible. I hadn't heard of it. It's not calligraphy but just lettering: EC Matthew's book "Sign Painting Course" is awesome; he is a favorite author amongst old-school sign painters. Also, I love Better Letters Magazine (BLAG). It's an incredible resource; their newsletter and their digital/physical magazine. AND the old book "Henderson's Sign Painting" book by John Ohnimus is so good. (The Matthews and Ohnimus books are available on archive . org - I'd link to them, but I think it gets tagged as spam - posted this comment before with links, and it got flagged. The books are Google-able though!).
Oh man! Are you doing a Misery poster?!? Be sure to get some broken ankles in thereโฆlol
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