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Stand Firm...
My first introduction to the St. John’s Bible was when I viewed an exhibit featuring some of the original vellum pages of the SJB in the Oklahoma City Museum of Art several years ago. It was impressive and inspiring. A few years later the Baylor Moody Memorial Library acquired the seven volumes of the St. John’s Bible Heritage Edition, and our Waco Calligraphy Guild has had several experiences in viewing and studying this magnificent work of art and calligraphy. I was thrilled when Reggie offered a class about the four scripts from the SJB.
Our guild meets at the St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Waco. Each year in the fall the church presents an Art as Worship Exhibit with a theme. This year’s theme was “Community”. Since I had learned the four scripts of the St. John’s Bible in Reggie’s class, I decided to use those to create an exhibit piece in a format that has some of the SJB features. I used the Incipit Script to write the theme’s focus verse and used the Bible Script for the verses following it. Versals were used at the beginning of the two passages. In the class we used gilding for the gold on Versals, but I chose
to use Finetec gold for this piece. For the border around the main text, I used Freely Written Caps at a 15-degree slant, but I made the letters straight instead of curved. The illustration at the top was done on a gel print background. The trickiest part of this piece was writing within defined borders on both sides of the text. It required a lot of attention to spacing.
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NEW! on Zoom
example of "Incipit" lettering style By Vicki Brandt
"Lettering styles inspired by the Saint John's Bible Zoom Course
with Reggie Ezell 2025
The greatest work of art in western calligraphy and illumination in the last 500 years is the Saint John’s Bible. www.saintjohnsbible.org
It is written out in essentially four different lettering styles: incipil, standard bible script, free form capitals, and versals. We will be analyzing, writing out, and creating finished works inspired by and based on these.
Class Dates: Feb 15, March 15, April 26, May 24, - 11 am to 5 pm Central time US & Canada
More info:2024 SJB More Info - Dropbox
All the classes will be on Zoom. They will be recorded and available to students for at least two months after the class dates.
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Very interesting videos!
on The Today Show Dec 23, 2024 (4 min)
https://www.today.com/video/rare-bible-draws-crowds-to-new-york-s-st-patrick-s-cathedral-227737157927
Works from the Course "Letterforms Inspired by the Saint John's Bible” (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij_uJdNp8xg
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