I have been away for a while concentrating on my next career plan...to become a "real" calligrapher. I have and still continue to practice several hours every week, I have joined calligraphers guild and now I guess I am ready to get out and get some "real" order.
The window splashes business will be mostly runned by my long time partner Steven, and I will concentrate on calligraphy, wedding invitations, diplomas and hand lettered logos.
If you want a copy of my flyer in a nice calligraphied envelope, let me know your postal address! I am nowhere in the league of John Stevens but I am having a blast!
Life is sooo good! Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
You should hook up with the Society of Scribes in NYC. They are one of the most important calligraphy guilds out there.
I'd love to have one of your flyers. I've come back to calligraphy in the last few years myself, as a design tool. To sit and pen and brush all day would be pretty fun. I've been to two Cheerio retreats, might meet at one sometime. Thanks
Tony Segale 415 W. Pine St. Lodi, CA 95240
Posted by Doug Phillips (Member # 5708) on :
Pierre, Lots of talent there! Send one my way.
Doug Phillips 7008 Cape Lisburne Loop Anchorage, Alaska 99504
Posted by Rene Giroux (Member # 4980) on :
Tu marches en criss mon bonhomme... t'es encore mon idole !!!
Does this guy have talent or what... it only goes to show that it doesn't HAVE to plug in a wall to work !!!
Posted by Jeff Ogden (Member # 3184) on :
Beautiful work Pierre...I'd like your flyer too....maybe I can send some work your way. You have a very nice, fluent hand...it showed when you did window splashes, but it really shines with that calligraphy ! You are well on your way to being one of the best, imho.
Posted by Joe Endicott (Member # 628) on :
Those are beautiful, Pierre!! I would love a flyer. I hope this career goes well for you...I can't see how skills like that could go unnoticed.
906 Cranbrook Ave Pensacola, Florida 32505
Posted by Steve Shortreed (Member # 436) on :
Send a few our way Pierre. You and I have spent some cool times in person playing with calligraphy. In the process, I got hooked too. Let's see how high you can soar.
Posted by Frank Smith (Member # 146) on :
Pierre-
Talent like that is worth promoting... My experience is that a listing under "calligraphy" in the phone book is worthwhile because there aren't many calligraphers, the listing costs almost nothing, and quality competition is almost non-existant. Actually, it would be nice to have more competition- calligraphy seems an underappreciated art.
Frank
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Nice work Pierre! I'd love to have some! Your are a Brush brush man! (Sorry I do not know the French version!)
Posted by Steve Racz (Member # 4376) on :
Pierre,
You are a talented (and very funny) guy! I know you will be successful in your new venture.
I would love to have one of your new flyers.
Thanks, Steve
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
Don't sell yourself short, Pierre - you're every bit as good as John Stevens (and anybody else, for that matter)
It's very cool watching talented people like Stevo, Mike Lavalee, and yourself take off and run with a unique niche market - we can say we knew you when......
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Go for it ... no learning curve for you ... jump right in!
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
The Living Brush..... Pierre, i would love to have one of your brochures! you're an inspiration to us! Thanks
John
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
I would Love to have one also. 3rd Dimension Sign Co 224 Main Street Canon City CO 81212
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
postal code is V5J2W7
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Man, I would love top learn how to do that, but I'm a lefty. Calligraphy is tough when you're a lefty.
Posted by sarge (Member # 1022) on :
I too would love one of them there brochures and envelopes... Such flowing scripts are a beauty to behold
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
Pierre, I have always felt you had a real knack, or flair, at just plain old handwriting. Any envelope I ever got in the mail from you is a visual treat! It's good to see you putting this gift to good use. I wish you well! And you already know my address. Love....Jill
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
I agree with Jill. I always love getting something in the mail from you. It is always an adventure!
I think you have my address too.
Suelynn
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Bonjour Pierre!!!!!! Very very nice work! I've saved the envelopes you've sent too. Good luck to ya, you definetly got a knack for this!
Stevo
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
Count me in!
Love it, Love it, Love it!
It's such spontaneous, unbridled, whimsical, loose, adventurous, curious, fun ART!
Just like Pierre! Posted by Bruce & Deb Newton (Member # 2312) on :
Pierre,
Nice Work!
Look forward to receiving your flyer.
Graphic Lettering 1046 Commerce Street, Suite I San Marcos, CA 92078
Posted by Linda Silver Eagle (Member # 274) on :
Wow Pierre,
Great hand you have! I did this with a passion when I was eight. It was my springboard into hand lettering! LOL. You have it dear, run with it!
I think I was 17, I used to ride the bus into town with my mother on weekdays to go to work. We had the same driver each day but one day it would be a Trailways bus and maybe a Greyhound the next. I fell in love with the Greyhound logo and dancing with a number eight quill and some gray, oops, grey paint (LOL) I painted a Greyhound taking a nap with his snout resting peacefully on his front paws. I took it to show my bus driver and he snatched it from me and said, "WOW! My daughter's birthday is today and I didn't know what to get her that was special...she always wants me to let the dog take a nap so I don't have to go to work" (LOL.)
I wish I'd had a camera back then. (I got that lecture from my Mother, too LOL.)
I'm so proud of you Pierre and would love to share your brochures. May I email my address to you for some?
Posted by Pierre Tardif (Member # 3229) on :
Thanks a lot for the nice words! I'll have those flyers put in the mail in the next couple of days.
Hey, I am not a newcomer to hand lettering, a friend of mine founds those pictures back when I was lettering soapboxes and even putting my advertising on them to get more of those to paint!!
You have to be very passionate about hand lettering to go trough hundreds pages of practice like those...
By the way for those lefty you should have a look at this website: www.beyondwordsscript.com John Decollibus is a left handed penman, his work is totally amazing!
Life is so good!
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
Looking good Pierre! I got some pictures like that too...those were the days.....riding bikes and eating licorice.....lettering everything that didn;t move
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
...Pierre you still look the same! I'll bet you were quite the handful as a kid. And far more enterprising than me! All I had was a Kool-Aid stand. Love....Jill
Posted by Tony Segale (Member # 1380) on :
Pierre, thanks for the link to John's website. Almost two years ago I was fortunate enough to attand a Cheerio calligraphy retreat and the instructor was Gaynor Goffe, a lefty from England. Since I am a lefty, it was quite a humbling experience. I had become pretty effecient at rendering blackletter upside down, Gaynor wouldn't hear of it. She changed my hand postition and after a couple sessions 'til midnight, a new way of writing was developed. Your work is very nice, keep it up.
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
Awesome work, Pierre, could I have a flyer too?
Thank you so much for posting that link. For the first time I've seen that it is possible for a leftie to write beautiful calligraphy. This is very exiting, now I only have to find myself a pen like the one he uses... BTW, click on "About the Artist" and then the "Offhand Flourishing" video. It's a treat!
Edited to add my postal code: S0A 2Z0
[ March 15, 2006, 01:08 PM: Message edited by: Lotti Prokott ]
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
Yeah, but watching Pierre do his thing with calligraphy is something else. He'll stand there with one hand in his pocket making it look so easy...I hate him for it! (inside joke ... )
Beautiful work Pierre... Rapid
Posted by Arvil Shep' Shepherd (Member # 2030) on :
Hi "Little Friend" Glad to see you are venturing out...Great Work,,, I would like a sample as well.
Shep' 215 Davis Rd Mt Airy, NC USA 27030
Posted by Louie Pascuzzi (Member # 1373) on :
Piere, Your lettering has that free bouncy feel. Just awesome. You can add my name to your list. Thanks
Louis Pascuzzi 35 Harbor Ridge Rd Danbury, Ct 06811
Posted by John Jordan (Member # 2368) on :
G'day my French colleage Pierre,
Wonderful work, I would slso like to be added to your mailing list.
John Jordan. 1/260-270 Kingsway, Caringbah, N.S.W. AUSTRALIA 2229
Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :
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