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Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:42 pm
by Xiao Rong
Hey everyone,

This is another piece I've done recently that I'm quite proud of. It's a Book of Shadows blessing and I'd love to give it away to find it a nice witchy home!

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9" x 6", multimedia paper, using Mitchell dip pen & Higgins Eternal Ink, in Batarde script. This is my first attempt at a cadel capital (the fancy letter H).

I believe the poem was originally written by Silver Ravenwolf, although sources vary online. I also edited a few of the lines because the original had some weird grammatical quirks that I didn't care for.

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Do you want this piece for free? I love doing the calligraphy, and I thought it'd be fun to give this away to someone on EUTM. I would be honored for someone to have this in their Book of Shadows!

If you are interested in this piece, post a number between 1 and 100. I'll pick the winning number, let's say, next Tuesday, April 8. If you win, PM me your address and I will mail it to you!

OH - and if you have suggestions or requests for my next calligraphy piece, let me know!


Note on reading the script: I used a lot of long S's (look like a lowercase F without the crossbar) and rotunda R's (lowercase R's that look like the numeral 2), if that helps explain why some of the words look spelled wrong!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:05 pm
by Holdasown
Wonderful job. I pick 9.

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:26 pm
by PhoenixFlight
I shall pick seventy-three. I love this piece, it's amazing, and your craftmanship is worthy of praise :D

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:47 pm
by Xiao Rong
Thank you both!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 11:53 pm
by Firebird
Sweet!
I'll be 18

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2014 12:16 pm
by Alura Noel
This is great, I choose 53. :)

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:46 pm
by Xiao Rong
And the winning number is ... 48! Alura, you get the BoS Blessing : ) PM me your mailing address; I'll try to send it by the weekend so I think you can expect it next week.

As for everyone else, stay tuned for more giveaways ... I just finished up a copy of the Norwegian Rune Poem, which I'll be uploading soon!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:20 pm
by Holdasown
Congrats on your win!!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:04 pm
by Seraphin
WOW Xiao Rong! That's incredibly beautiful!

And congratulations Alura!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:47 am
by Firebird
Congrats! Alura!!

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:44 pm
by Alura Noel
Hot dang! I wasn't expecting to win but this is great. Thank you guys for the congrats and thank you Xiao for making these. :)

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:29 pm
by Dragoness
Its lovely... Do you do commissions? I rarely see such nice detail.

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 10:04 pm
by Xiao Rong
Hmm, I hadn't thought of doing commissions before. I wouldn't mind doing more smaller works (like a half page or 1 page), although I wouldn't be able to do much more calligraphy until at least next week. Did you have something in mind?

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:39 am
by Dragoness
A few actually. Theres a version of the Wiccan rede I like... I bet you could manage to do several on here, for people like me that cant write.

Re: Calligraphy Piece #3: BoS Blessing (giveaway!)

Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:17 pm
by ness
Xiao, I just want to metion how beautiful your work is.

I love calligraphy and very interested in the art of penmanship. I have taken some classes and did it as a hobby for sometime until life got busy and I have no time to spare.