H is for Happiness

Hello everyone , these weeks are coming around so quickly, I can’t believe we are on ‘H’ already!  This week, I cheated a little bit by copying an illuminated letter from a piece I wrote a few years ago. 

 
I used the illuminated ‘h’ as the first letter of ‘half-uncial’, using  half-uncial letter forms. The half-uncial alphabet was used in the seventh century A.D. in the highly decorated Lindisfarne Gospels. The alphabet shows the development from the earlier uncials to upper- and lower-case letters. 

This Happiness quote is written using the Carolingian miniscule script.

 From the 9^th century, this ordered and practical script  clarified the distinctions and the basic structural differences between capitals and lower-case letterforms .

On my original artwork the colours of the Harlequin background are green, blue, red and yellow.  My printer is running out of ink so the copy came out a rather pretty blue and pink, I used ribbon and thread in these colours for the tie on my tag. 

Did you know that in Calligraphy, a Hairline is the thinnest part of the stroke?

The Headline, also known as the waistline  is the line to which the tops of letters are written, excluding the ascenders.

Thank you for all your kind comments on my gold-leaf last week, I'm Happy that some of you might Have a go! I shall be around later to see all your Heavenly H tags!

Bye for now,

Jane xx