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!
-------------------- Pierre Tardif P. Tardif Inc. 1006 boul. PIE-XI sud Val-Belair QC. Canada G3K 1L2 418-847-4089 pierre@ptardif.com Posts: 800 | From: Quebec city | Registered: Aug 2002
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-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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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
-------------------- Tony Segale Segale Fine Art & Gold Leaf Sign Co Lodi, CA www.tonysegale.com
""and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear" Posts: 216 | From: Lodi,CA,USA | Registered: Feb 2000
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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.
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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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.
-------------------- Steve Shortreed 144 Hill St., E. Fergus, Ontario Canada N1M 1G9 519-787-2673
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
-------------------- Frank Smith Frank Smith Signs Albany, NY www.franksmithsigns.com Posts: 807 | From: Albany, NY USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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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......
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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The Living Brush..... Pierre, i would love to have one of your brochures! you're an inspiration to us! Thanks
John
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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Man, I would love top learn how to do that, but I'm a lefty. Calligraphy is tough when you're a lefty.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3814 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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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
Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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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?
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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!
-------------------- Pierre Tardif P. Tardif Inc. 1006 boul. PIE-XI sud Val-Belair QC. Canada G3K 1L2 418-847-4089 pierre@ptardif.com Posts: 800 | From: Quebec city | Registered: Aug 2002
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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
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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...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
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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.
-------------------- Tony Segale Segale Fine Art & Gold Leaf Sign Co Lodi, CA www.tonysegale.com
""and he took that golden hair and made a sweater for baby bear" Posts: 216 | From: Lodi,CA,USA | Registered: Feb 2000
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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!
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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
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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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
-------------------- Arvil Shep' Shepherd Art by Shep' -------- " Those who dance are thought to be mad by those who cannot hear the music " Posts: 1281 | From: Mt Airy NC | Registered: Mar 2001
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