Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Reason and Passion


This triptych is inspired by “On Reason and Passion”, from Kahlil Gibran’s classic book, The Prophet.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Alice you are making me fall in love with calligraphy all over again. Your colors and design are drawing me in.

Alice Young said...

Thanks, Toni. That's the plan! :)

Victoria Pittman said...

I agree with Toni Alice.

What did you use for your small writing?

Alice Young said...

Hi Victoria,

The small writing is done with a copperplate nib. Now, that IS challenging, on textured canvas, but I made no attempt to make it formal copperplate, just a casual script, with all the irregularities that includes...

Anonymous said...

Hi Alice,

Is that possible to get your email address, the one on you web page doesn't work...

Will anwser to your question about my work soon.

I LOVE your triptyc ! Your work is amazing & your handwriting awesome !

Thanks,

Malika

Alice Young said...

Thanks, Malika! The address on my website should work - strange that it didn't. My email is alice@calligraphy.ca.

I look forward to hearing from you!
Alice