JULY 1 daily drawing and calligraphy

July 1, 2020. Daily drawing and calligraphy practice. Well, it has turned out to not be daily, but I think y goal will be 4 times a week? I think that forces some practice and gives me some wiggle room. I spent Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday finishing another unit of the Business Law class. Now I have only 4 more chapters and one more test and I will be finished with summer school. And because of how he set things up, I can't work on them until the 11th, so I have a few days to come up for air. I had meant to spend the day finishing getting my warp on my loom, but I woke up today kinda loggy and headache, and this warp is not something I want to do when I'm not on my feet. I really need to get a smaller dent reed. 

So today's drawing is Mike and my heraldry, it already looks better hand drawn then the first time. I also copied something that I saw in one of ( https://www.facebook.com/moIdelbuchmuse/ ) posts, from the met at this location (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/660103…) I do need to work on faces more. 

And then the calligraphy practice is the first psalm, taken from this source. My plan is to be practicing my calligraphy along with studying my psalms, so a twofer! https://publicdomainreview.org/…/the-whole-booke-of-psalmes…

This one is (1)The Man is lest, that hath not bent to wicked rede his eare: nor let his life as sinners do, not sate in scorners chair. The more modern Anglican version from (https://www.churchofengland.org/…/book-c…/psalter/psalms-1-5) which says "BLESSED is the man that hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners : and hath not sat in the seat of the scornful." 

I have also spent a little more time listening to The Raven, which is a book about Jim Jones. Just...argh, why do people follow people like this? Fucking tests of loyalty shit. 
Oh, and back to the calligraphy practice... Like, could there be a pun here? The modern (hah) translation talks about walking in the counsel of the ungodly, and rede is an archaic way of saying consul, so thats a fair translation. BUT if one says rede like reed, that is something that famously bends under slight pressure. so bent to the rede of the wicked could also maybe be translated as bending to the advise of the bad people... ok, I might be reaching too far here. 

Oh, and that warp, that is why I like to have lots of little dumbbells.