Wah! But Yay!

...I'm a little bit in shock: I sold the ouroboros piece in the exhibition! LOL... the problem (the wah factor) is that I didn't get a finished photo of it. What a bummer. But... I sold it! Woot! I'm *very* excited - it's been many years since I sold any calligraphy at all, and probably the first thing I've ever sold that I didn't feel was horrendously underpriced.

This afternoon I went to a CCS workshop for precopperplate italic today, run by Gemma Black. Pretty good fun, though it's hard to fit much into 3 hours. The first pic is a couple of examples of the script, the 2nd is my writing at the top and Gemma's at the bottom. Once I can convince my fingers that I'm not doing bookhand or chancery cursive, I might be ok with it.

It was hot. Which is never good for calligraphy because sweat is baaaaad for writingness. But! My good fortune continued: I won the raffle for the day, which was this gorgeous Calligrapher's Calendar, produced by WA Society of Calligraphers. Yummm. And now I'm at home, slurping on a beer, with thunder rolling in the distance. Yay.