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Seating Plan
For the top table at a wedding reception
Wedding Place Cards
These cards were prepared by a skilled craftsman friend of the bride's family with glitter paint, beads and the Heart in a Circle cutout.
All I did was write the names in in a pretty pink italic face.
Place Cards
Sporting easily obtainable craft shop embellishments.
Persistence
Multicoloured poem by Arthur Rubiloff written in black, blue, red and gold on Marlemarque paper
Invitation to a wedding in Ravello, Italy.
One of just 35 sumptuously written and decorated invitations, rolled in a piece of the local hand made paper and slipped into a beautifully crafted scroll box with the recipient's name written in white script on the top.
Birthday present for a determinedly Scottish gentleman
A form of Blackletter text with enlarged Capitals in red for the title and first line.
More Place Cards
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Calligraphy Gallery
Wedding gift to a favourite niece
Body text written in black in a condensed roman style with each line picked out with a decorative red capital. Title in 'Old Gold' with a dusting of real rose petals to match the theme of the wedding.
Pale blue/grey marbled paper
framed in 'distressed silver'.
Wedding Album
Detail from Title Page (in inset)
and following Affirmation Page
Muslim Prayer
for a nursery wall
Gold and a little bit of a rainbow to catch a childs eye.
Intriguing verse
from Dr Johnson
Swash capitals in red begin each and every line of what would otherwise appear a rather dull pattern of ‘German Blackletter’ text.
Leaving Gift
Presentation piece using the school’s
symbol of the sunflower to complement
the retiring Head Teachers very own copy
of the school song
Hardiman Family Tree
A large rambling family history, over four feet wide, covering several family trees in one. Each single person's or married couple's name was written on a separate small sheet of white paper in blue with black for the dates
(see adjacent examples).
These were then attached to the main board which carries the family coat of arms.
Detail
Hardiman
Coat of Arms
Hand painted
in Gouache
on 200gsm
Marlmarque
paper.
Two versions of the same Poem
Following the suggestion contained in the poem
I used the ‘close, close’ writing method you may have seen me use before.
This involves writing lines of text which
touch one another on their
top and bottom edges. separated solely
by colour difference.
Bookplate
Black with gold inlining to main capitals
Written on a pale green paper
cut to fit the printed page border.
My 2005 Christmas Card
This is written in a real old 'Uncial' form but using a modern layout technique of sqeezing the lines of text together and delineating them by alternating their colours. Note the use of half size letters or words to assist in achieving
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Logo
For set of promotional
newspaper games
The illuminated 'W' at the top of the scroll was rendered in a different way on each of the 35 scrolls. Making sure that each scroll was unique to the recipients
A Boy’s Song
A childhood memory bought to life.
Written in Vivaldi by special request,
on hammer finish paper.
Gratitude
Single colour Presentation Scroll with Blackletter title and body text written in an updated version of an old Germanic form.
Nana’s Tag
Place card for an unusually themed black and white reception
Sparky’s Promise
Very busy Presentation Scroll with the names of those involved in making the presentation, forming the border.
Written in italic script from style page ‘A’
2001 Presentation Scroll
With University detail enlarged
To show, decorative capitals in three colours embellished with gold leaf. Lower case letters drawn in black with double inlining in gold
I have been known to put together the odd certificate as well
Paper, First Year Wedding Anniversary Present
Written in upright version
of style 2 on Style Page ‘A’
