{"id":1210,"date":"2016-01-06T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:44:19","slug":"lettering-and-illustrations-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/2016\/01\/lettering-and-illustrations-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Lettering &#038; Illustrations: 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Happy New Year! This new year I have decided to work on my hand lettering and drawings. I do not really consider myself an artist&#8230; but I create in a lot of other ways and I&#8217;d like to improve my lettering and drawing skills. So I thought it might be fun to share some of my practice here! I won&#8217;t be posting daily&#8230; but I will post now and then. I intend to practice my lettering by writing quotes, and I plan to have a new theme for my work each month. This month the quotes will be about the new year and new beginnings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My inspiration for this project comes mostly from an artist named Lisa Congdon. In 2012 she worked on her hand lettering and posted a piece on her blog everyday that year! Those posts turned into a book, which I was recently given and have really enjoyed. It&#8217;s called, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Whatever-You-Good-Inspirational-Hand-Lettered\/dp\/1452124833\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452117767&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=whatever+you+are%2C+be+a+good+one\" target=\"_blank\">Whatever you are, be a good one: 100 Inspirational Quotations<\/a><\/em>. I have also been inspired by another little book I have: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Think-Happy-Be-Art-Inspiration\/dp\/0761177574\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1452117831&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=think+happy%2C+be+happy\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Think Happy, Be Happy: art, inspiration, joy<\/em><\/a>. Both books are filled with quotes, illustrations, and lots of lettering styles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing how my lettering and drawings progress through the year, and I hope you all enjoy my work as well! Here&#8217;s my first piece worthy of being shared. :-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_05_Hope.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1211\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_05_Hope.png\" alt=\"2016_01_05_Hope\" width=\"694\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_05_Hope.png 694w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_05_Hope-203x300.png 203w, http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016_01_05_Hope-677x999.png 677w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year! This new year I have decided to work on my hand lettering and drawings. I do not really consider myself an artist&#8230; but I create in a lot of other ways and I&#8217;d like to improve my lettering and drawing skills. So I thought it might be fun to share some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[130,123,124],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering-and-illustrations","tag-alfred-tennyson","tag-new-beginnings","tag-new-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjblythe.com\/beautiful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}