Blog Block Be Gone

I have had a bad case of Blog Block lately (winter blues - cold, dark, wanting only to hibernate) ... sooooooo, instead of blogging myself, I went looking at my favorite blogs and found an online class in something I have been wanting to get more into lately - art lettering (or lettering art - either way)!!!  The artist offering the online class is Joanne Z. Sharpe and the title of her blog is Whimspirations.  I love her lettering art and have been following her blog for a while.  She just announced the online class in the last few days.  It will be the perfect tonic to help me through the blahs that usually get worse in February when the days are not yet long enough, the weather is really cold, the holiday hubbub is long gone, and it is still too early to start gardening.


I have been wanting to add some of my favorite phrases/quotes to my art quilts, but am not real creative when it comes to lettering.  In fact, I have been called the human typewriter - I still print like I learned in 1st grade - very neat, tidy, engineering-like.  Very unimaginative.  But I have been trying to "doodle" artsy letters - getting more used to more swirly, asymmetrical penmanship - but still not comfortable with it.  This online course looks awesome, so come February I will hopefully become an art lettering (and art quilt making) fool !!!

One of my so called "art" lettering attempts

Here's to beating the Winter blues and Blog Block.  Just look for inspirations - or in this case Whimspirations - to give yourself a jump start.


Blessings,
Kat