Art Elements: Monthly Challenge

Petroglyphs!

The Monthly Challenge from the lovely ladies at Art Elements Blog.

Check them out Here at their Blog.

About a month ago, I decided to start calligraphy again. I had an old pen and ink that I kept running across when I would clean my craft area. So of course, I had to go and buy more things and I started following You-tubers and bloggers and I generally OVER obsessed about it. What I found however, was a huge following for the new brush pen style writing. So, of course, I had to go and buy more things etc, you get my point. I now need to buy something to store all my pens and markers and tips and books (of course) and THREE different, oh wait, FOUR different pads of paper.  And paper practice sheets! I have already gone through a ream of paper printing practice sheets. My favorite sheets for calligraphy are from ThePostmansKnock  https://thepostmansknock.com/author/lindseybugbee. Lindsey has been blogging since 2012 and teaches online and in person. What I like about her, she puts together fun practice sheets that are more about the strokes and less about the alphabet. Below is some unfinished and finished Halloween practice sheets that she made. You can see, its all about the strokes. I also started using them for my Brush Pen practice as well.

When I signed up for the Art Elements Challenge, I never in a million years thought I would do a calligraphy project! But I found some coloring book papers on line of Petroglyphs
(I KNOW...RIGHT?!?!) and I found some information about Petroglyphs found here in Pennsylvania. Here is the story about the coloring books sheets.

Pat Preble, has been drawing and painting since two years old.

After working for a number of years with the encaustic medium, she decided to look into the images created in encaustic by our ancient ancestors and was fascinated by the highly sophisticated ancient cave art. She decided to try reproducing some of them.
Deborah Harmon, Archeologist, Grant Meister, and artist, sent her more than 100 petroglyph line drawings to use Pat's cave art paintings. The rock drawings started her on the quest to make a rock to paint on and eventually she created the modern cartonnage. She wanted a surface that looked and felt like a rock; a kind of 3-D sculpted canvas. She created a derivative form of Ptolomaic cartonage based on ideas from ancient Egyptian cast paper and sculpting media.
Visit the site she created titled AncientArtMaterials.com which explains these processes of discovery.

Here are the locations of the Petroglyph sites in PA.

Here is a simulation picture of the Little Indian Rock site and accompanying legend.

So, with out futher ado (and before I buy any more supplies) I present you with my 

Petroglyph Calligraphy Practice Sheets!

This is a Blog hop, so be sure to check out what everyone else made!

Art Elements Team:
Lesley Watt: http://www.lesleywatt.com
Jenny Davies-Reazor: https://jdaviesreazor.com
Cathy Spivey Mendola: http://cmendola.blogspot.com
Sue Kennedy: http://www.suebeads.blogspot.com
Caroline Dewison: http://www.blueberribeads.co.uk
Laney Mead: https://laney-mead.blogspot.com/
Marsha Neal Minutella: http://blog.marshanealstudio.com
Claire Fabian: https://saraccino.blogspot.com


Our Guest Artists:
Jill Egan: https://kilnfiredart.wordpress.com
Tammy Adams: http://www.paisleylizard.com/blog/
Alison Herrington: http://AlisonAdorns.blogspot.com
Alysen: http://chicchixnchampagne.blogspot.com
Sarajo Wentling: https://sjdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com
Jenny Kyrlach: http://anafiassa.blogspot.com
CraftyHope: http://CraftyHope.com
Kathy Lindemer: https://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/