Calligraphy Letters

Calligraphy artworks, using best paper, and ink, elevating the written word to the level of any other art form. The history of calligraphy shows us that styles evolved over centuries. Modern calligraphy artists interpret these styles and bring a contemporary feel to them.

The sweeping stroke of the pen and the power of the brush leave the character of the artist on the words: a leaping off point; a multi-sensual line or shape in space. The interplay of subject (mark) and object (paper).

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Calligraphy artworks: A collection of commissioned letter works

Following, are artworks on paper, by John Stevens, whose original works are included in the collections of the San Francisco Public Library, Berlin’s Akademie der Künste, Klingspor Offenbach, Casa del libro, as well as many other public and private collections. Works on paper are collected as Calligraphic Art (like drawings) and are not merely a collection of a calligraphy font.
You will notice a page is designed: calligraphy is rarely just line after line of letters, but rather, think of a page of calligraphy as a composition. That’s how I approach my work.

Calligraphy artworks: Roman lettering with bird illustration

Some calligraphy of John Stevens (detail) of honor certificate.

Quote of Bruce Cockburn showing hand drawn letters and the quality of calligraphic line

Calligraphy artworks| Quote, Written out on Fabriano paper in Italic

Title page for Roll of Heroes and Heroines of Carnegie Fund Commission with illuminated scroll and dropcap. Calligraphy Hand Lettering by John Stevens

Calligraphy artworks | Written in watercolor and ink on Arches paper

Calligraphy artworks| Not digital: written on blue Canson paper. Pen & Brush

Calligraphy artworks| watercolor on paper

Calligraphy artworks | water color calligraphy on Arches paper

Calligraphy artworks | Brush writing on Arches paper

Calligraphy artworks | Italic with gilded, illuminated capitals

Calligraphy artworks | Pen-written in Acrylic on Arches paper

Calligraphic Art | Sumi Ink on JBGreen hand made paper in Roman Capitals

Calligraphy artworks| Alice Walker quote. Watercolor and ink on paper.

Calligraphy artworks | Ink and gouache on canson paper

Calligraphy artworks | Acrylic painting with writing in Roman capitals in gouache

Calligraphy artworks | Writing in sepia on Arches paper

Calligraphy artworks | gold and gouache on blue Japanese paper

Calligraphic Art | written in sepia and blue inks

Calligraphic Art | French quote in Roman capitals on Arches paper

Calligraphic Art | calligraphy commission

Calligraphic Art | Art piece in the San Francisco Public Library

Calligraphic Art | Calligraphy quote about disciplined freedom in writing. Pen, Ink on hand-made paper

Calligraphy Hand Lettering commission of an alphabet by John Stevens

$Calligraphic Art | Page of pen-written, fractur capitals with quotations on Michelangelo hand made paper. Ground sumi ink.$

Calligraphic Art | Experimental brush calligraphy on paper

Calligraphic Art | The Road Not Taken-Robert Frost poem written out on blue Japanese paper in white gouache

Calligraphic Art | Sumi ink on hand made paper

Calligraphic Art | Ink and gouache on paper

Quote from Bhagavad Gita showing hand drawn letters and the quality of calligraphic line

Beautiful calligraphy alphabet called Italic

Calligraphic Art| Brush calligraphy on gold Japanese rice paper

Calligraphic Art on blue Japanese paper, written with pointed pen capitals and touches of red and 23k gold leaf

Calligraphic Art for Wake Forest Hanes gallery; Exhibit, "Letterforming". This is a Kurt Schwitters quote

Calligraphy (pen), black sumi ink on Whatman hand made vintage paper. Quote written in red around the flourished alphabet.

Quotations of Pope Francis, hand lettered by John Stevens

Some calligraphy of John Stevens (detail)

Framed Carnegie Hero Fund Commission by John Stevens

Calligraphic Art | Calligraphic Art Honoring Hermann Zapf

Calligraphic Art | Hand-written quote on BKF Rives paper in ink and watercolor

Calligraphic Art | Long poem written out on large Arches paper in italic hand

Calligraphic Art | Poem written for client at the framer

Detail of poem written out in italic calligraphy

Calligraphy Hand Lettering of Robert Kennedy words

Calligraphy Letters & Calligraphy Fonts. The real definition of Calligraphy is simple beautiful writing. It is a complex subject that has been boiled down to “how to write calligraphy” in web searches.
It is true, it is easy to get started with calligraphy, but it is very difficult to master. The more you learn, the more you realize there is to know. I get a lot of questions about what are the best calligraphy pens, or where can I download a calligraphy alphabet? We have to start somewhere, I know.