Wedding certificate (detail) showing medallion with Monogram of bride and grooms names combined into one design in Arabic calligraphy. Watercolor, ink and metallic gold. Calligraphy and design by S. J. Thomas.Read More
Wedding certificate with cut paper floral motif and gold-dipped lotus points, gold filigree background and calligraphy. Designed and hand done by Stewart J. Thomas.Read More
In the studio again, tools of the trade. This is an actual shot of the area to the left of my workspace, which is a large tempered glass light table. I keep my inks to the left, except those I’m currently using. Most of my brushes are in a roll up brush holder tucked under the glass. To the right are my pens and nibs and other assorted items. In this photo are various types of dip calligraphy pens, both broad nib and pointed pen styles; quill pens; sign painting brushes; Chinese brush painting and calligraphy brushes; the traditional reed qalam ney and some cut from bamboo; bone folder, scissors, agate burnisher, bookbinding knife, and no doubt a few more tools.Read More
Azza — عزة — a beautiful girl’s name in Arabic meaning a young gazelle. Your name in Arabic, contact Stewart Thomas at palmstone@gmail.com. www.palmstone.comRead More
In the calligrapher’s studio (mine): pen nibs, gold wash, ink, gouache.Read More
Detail of Nikah—Islamic Marriage Certificate—with English, Urdu and Arabic calligraphy and watercolor border by S. J. Thomas.Read More
Peace • Shalom • Salaam • سلام • שָׁלוֹם • peace, harmony, wholeness, completeness, wellness, prosperity, welfare and tranquility. May it be so. Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy by Stewart J. ThomasRead More
I am very pleased to have a piece in Calligraphies in Conversation 2017 on exhibit now in San Francisco. The full exhibit can be viewed at www.calligraphies.orgRead More
There comes that moment when you’ve done the prudent planning, and yet still, enter that place Rumi says “from now on I’ll be mad.” Mad not as in angry, but as in irrational. We have water, candles, flashlights, food. Took down the precarious tree, put up sandbags . . . in Florida, awaiting Hurricane Irma.Read More