But I'm taking the day off, as I don't defend until the 15th, so I thought I'd upload the pictures I took from the last big project I did before the hell of prelims started. Essentially, I've started to decorate my walls, but since I don't have money for artwork and I can't draw worth a damn, and because, to be honest, I don't really like paintings, I've decided to put calligraphy up on my wall. Poems, to be precise. Unusual, probably, but a) I like words, and I don't really like pictures; and b) I can do calligraphy, so it's cheap. Comparatively.
My first project, on the wall above my couch, was to write out Kipling's poem Harp Song of the Dane Woman, which is one of my favorite poems, so that each verse was on a separate sheet of "vellum". This isn't real vellum, of course, it's the plastic paper called vellum because it is somewhat translucent, as real vellum is. It takes ink well, as long as the ink isn't too wet, because it really is plastic so the ink doesn't feather. But it does buckle when wet, so I had to use my fountain pen rather than a dip pen, because fountain pen ink contains much less liquid. Then I mounted each verse on an 8"x11" sheet of blue paper, usually cut down from a large sheet of decorative paper from Hollander's, so that there was a gradation of blue from dark blue under the first verse and very light blue under the last. The result:
So you probably can't see the words in this picture (actually, if you click it it turns out to be pretty big), but you get the general idea. (And look, I didn't choose that couch, ok? It came with the place.) So I've taken pictures of each individual verse so you can revel in the glory of my calligraphy.
I was going to cut-tag this so it wouldn't be horrendously long, but apparently that is almost impossible to do on a blog.spot blog. I think I like LJ better.
Pretty awesome, yes?
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