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Read more about this and download an HD version at: steveczajka.posterous.com/high-and-narrow-typeface "High and Narrow" is a hand done typeface that I recently created. I attended a class at my calligraphy guild that was taught by Ann O'Shea. Ann's class was based on an exemplar from U.S. Calligrapher Jean Formo ( www.printeryhouse.org/artists/jean-formo.asp ). The complete typeface includes ...

Read more about this and download an HD version at: steveczajka.posterous.com/march-2012-calendar The photograph made this one so easy to create. I love these detailed photographs with the background blurred out and the foreground objects in sharp detail. No digital effects here, other than a simple reversal of the original image. The black band in the middle is trivial to create in GIMP. Create ...

Read more about this and download an HD version at: steveczajka.posterous.com/vermont I have skied Vermont several times in my life and love it. I have only skied Stowe and Jay Peak, mountain biked Killington. I liked all of them, but Stowe Vermont (the town) is such a great place. My trip to Stowe was my first week-long ski trip ever, and I remembered it was foggy that first day, an ...

Read more about this and download an HD version at: steveczajka.posterous.com/love The lettering was done using a Pilot Parallel Calligraphy Pen (2.4mm nib) on a heavy paper using black ink. This paper seems to reduce the amount of ink bleed from the Pilot Inks. I did this using a very fast stroke of the pen, almost a flick motion. The original black and white image (only about an ...

Read more about this and download an HD version at: steveczajka.posterous.com/foo-fighters Foo Fighters is an American alternative rock band originally formed in 1994 by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a one-man project following the dissolution of his previous band. The band got its name from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II ...