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Printable “Lovely Calligraphy Drills” for Valentine’s Day

January 22, 2019 by Lindsey Bugbee Leave a Comment

I like the idea behind Valentine’s Day: a celebration of love. In practice, though, the day is wrought with pressure to make reservations at packed restaurants and come up with elaborate romantic gestures (which is nearly impossible when you’re new parents like we are)! Furthermore, if you’re unhappily single, February 14th isn’t the happiest day ever. All things considered, I think I’ve come up with a better celebration idea for this year: rejoice in your love for creativity by filling out the new Lovely Calligraphy Drills sheet!

How to Learn + Create Modern Calligraphy: A YouTube Video

December 27, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 44 Comments

For several months now, I have intended to make a short video tutorial over how to learn and create modern calligraphy. There were plenty of days when I should have filmed the tutorial, but I kept putting it off. I mean, I wanted the video to be perfect: engaging, inspirational, and informative! I knew it should include a worksheet, and I hoped to spend a lot of time editing the video. Calligraphy is my thing, the activity I love to do, and I needed to reflect that with the quality and thoughtfulness of the How to Learn and Create Modern Calligraphy video!
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Introducing the Calligraphy Medallions Worksheet: Birds & Botanicals Edition

November 7, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 40 Comments

Have you ever heard of calligraphy medallions? I hadn’t until early last year, when I came across a mesmerizing video on Instagram. In it, a calligrapher used a series of strokes to create an impressive circular work of art. I immediately had to make one myself! One medallion evolved into several, which culminated in a calligraphy medallions worksheet!
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About the Not Your Average Calligraphy Drills: Spooky Edition Packet

October 2, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 3 Comments

The Not Your Average Calligraphy Drills: Spooky Edition is now available!

Halloween has always been very big in my family. We love decorating the house with the macabre (I’ve got my Frida Kahlo skull on display) and — more importantly — getting to decorate ourselves! It’s freeing to step out of your comfort zone and be a little bit silly.
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How to Learn Calligraphy in Two Months

September 18, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 49 Comments

In January 2017, I wrote another article that was also titled “How to Learn Calligraphy in Two Months”. The response was interesting: beginners were encouraged, but a small handful of seasoned calligraphers were outraged — I remember one fellow on Facebook got angry and vowed to stop following TPK. “You can’t learn calligraphy in two months, and furthermore, not just anyone can learn it!” he scoffed before his exit.
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The 2018 Kaitlin Style Calligraphy Worksheet Update

August 10, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 38 Comments

I think that every soon-to-be parent has at least one goal that he or she wants to achieve before the baby arrives. For me, that goal was to re-do the Kaitlin Style calligraphy worksheet and its accompanying video course. When I first released the set in 2014, I thought it was pretty amazing! At the time, I’d designed the materials to the best of my ability. However, I’ve learned a lot about teaching since 2014, and it was time for an overhaul.
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5 Free Calligraphy Learning Resources You May Not Know About

August 7, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 44 Comments

The internet is a powerful tool that can facilitate knowledge about any topic. Calligraphy is no exception, but there’s so much information out there that it can be hard to cut through the fluff. In this blog post, I’d like to tell you about five free, quality calligraphy learning resources that I love! All of them will help you to improve and provide you with valuable information that propels you forward in your practice.
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Six “Fun Foodie” Free Printable Calligraphy Drills

August 3, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 32 Comments

Watch out — these foodie-themed printable calligraphy drills may make you hungry!

For a long time, I, personally, wasn’t a fan of calligraphy drills. It’s easy to understand why they’re beneficial, but none of the drills I came across were really that much fun. I guess that when I’m practicing, I want to be working toward making something instead of just a random shape!

Circus Lettering Exemplar + Video Tutorial

July 10, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 28 Comments

On Friday, I wrote a tutorial about how to make “Circus Lettering”, a fun lettering style inspired by vintage circus and carnival posters. In that tutorial, I focused on the letter “M”, and I tried to provide some general rules for writing all letters using the style. As I was writing, though, it occurred to me that you may have questions about how to make certain other letters of the alphabet — an “O”, for example, doesn’t follow the same rules as an “M”! With that in mind, I decided to make a printable exemplar.
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Introducing the New Amy Style Calligraphy Worksheet

June 15, 2018 by Lindsey Bugbee 45 Comments

I’m sure that you know the feeling of creating something that you’re proud of. Then, time passes, and you realize: “Wow, I really could have done that better.” That’s exactly how I felt with the Amy Style Calligraphy Worksheet Set. When I first released the set in 2015, I thought it was just great! I’d done it to the best of my ability, and that’s all that a person can ask for, really.
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