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| BYZANTOSH Alphabet, designed by Cherryl Moote, shown within her beautiful design work |
Workshops inspire me. Recently, I watched with awe as Cherryl Moote showed her work with an alphabet, Byzantosh, that she designed. I joined with 20 others in her online calligraphy class offered by the Friends of Calligraphy to practice using the alphabet in different ways.
We spent the weekend playing with words. Here are a couple of samples:
Besides her calligraphic work, Cherryl showed us the tools she collects. Her array of tools reminded me of my own.
As an artist, I use all kinds of tools, including expected ones such as pencils and pens. It is even more fun to experiment with objects you might not think to use to make a mark on paper, such as sponges, screens, straw, corrugated cardboard or plastic, toothpicks, and rollers. All of these tools makes me think of the tools that other professions use: tools for cooking, for woodworking, for making music. What tools do you use?
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