The Color Thesaurus. I love to collect words.
Making word lists can help to find the voice of my story, dig into the emotion of a scene, or create variety. One of my on-going word collections is of colors. I love to stop in the paint section of a hardware store and find new names for red or white or yellow. Having a variety of color names at my fingertips helps me to create specificity in my writing. I can paint a more evocative image in my reader’s mind if I describe a character’s hair as the color of rust or carrot-squash, rather than red. So for fun, I created this color thesaurus for your reference. Fill your stories with a rainbow of images! Like this: Like Loading... Rhodia, Clairefontaine, Quo Vadis, Exacompta, J. Herbin, G. Lalo, Brause, Mignon and Decopatch products. Calligraphy and Handwriting Books. Given that Vance Studley’s Left-Handed Calligraphy was originally published in 1979, at the exact time I was in third grade and supposed to be learning cursive writing, I was immediately intrigued.
I say supposed to be learning cursive because I went to three different schools that year and never had good instruction from beginning to end. Mrs. Tarbell at St. Therese Academy, the third of my third grade schools, worked with me and I received a “Most Improved Handwriting” award for the effort. Pretty proud of that one at the time and I still have the certificate in a scrapbook. The first thing I noticed just flipping through and looking at the pictures is that, like all other calligraphy books, the strokes in the sample pictures are numbered. “…I attempt to convince the person that his disadvantage [being a Leftie] can be overcome once he accepts three factors: 1) Calligraphy is a skill. 2) Acquired habits for commercial script writing must be reformed by developing new ones. Calligraphy Lessons Greensboro. Cursive Letters: Analysis and Construction. With regards to cursive letters, nothing is of greater importance in learning to write than that the student should acquire a thorough knowledge of the analysis and construction of all the letters of the alphabet.
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