Engrossing Script

[supxor]

...scripted, today, this beautiful Wisconsin poet, August Derleth's beautiful poem. ...gaining a slightly better grip of flourishing the caps. Thanks for all the views and comments.

[supxor]

Yesterday, I scripted this Franz von Schober poem, An die Musik (Ode to Music). Since I am a professor of voice at Indiana University, this poem, which is set by Franz Schubert, is a special poem, not only to musicians, but especially to singers and their teachers.

[Stompie]

Absolutely stunning stuff here and thank you for sharing, especially about the nibs you use.

[Stompie]

 

My day in day out pen is an Erastus Brooks Seminary Series 541

 

Mickey, where does one find these nibs?

I tried google but nothing comes up.

 

[disillusion]

Simply amazing and beautiful script! How long did you work on the basics before moving on to flourishing? I am a beginner and these things are quite beyond me right now, but it is nice to have something to aspire to!

[supxor]

...about flourishing. I scripted with little flourish for about two years, and then began to take on the flourished style of Bill Lilly who studied with Lupfer at the Zanerian College in Columbus, OH. Unlike Bill at 80 some years of age, I do sketch mine out with pencil, first; it is my hope, with time, that I can move away from the sketching process. They are far less than perfect, but they are a decent beginning. As Bill tells me, study these letters with the eye and with the hand. I love the alphabet so much, and practice it so very much for long hours. And lastly, the scripted cards and projects I send to people bring the recipients an immense amount of pleasure--even though it is not professional level script---my aim! At sixty five years of age, my window of time is short!!

[caliken]

The notable and gifted Spencerian Earl A Lupfer (1890-1974) wrote this appreciation of Roundhand (Copperplate).

As I agree entirely with the sentiments, I've written it out here, myself!

Ken

Edited June 9, 2014 by Ken Fraser

[ArchiMark]

Bob,

 

I'm totally engrossed in your engrossing script saga.....

 

Thanks for sharing it with everyone....

 

Beautifully done!

 

Mark

[Mickey]

 

Mickey, where does one find these nibs?

 

 

 

One doesn't. You need to stumble across them. In my case, they were in a box filled with boxes of nibs purchased by an FP dealer from an estate. From this stash I also acquired 5 boxes of Esterbrook 128 and box each of Esterbrook 14 (Bank) 313 (Probate), and 543 (Business and Education). Dip pens and such are not his business focus, so I offered him a fair price for the nibs, less the handling charges typically tacked on by merchants selling nibs piecemeal. We both came out okay. He probably paid next to nothing for them.

 

The only internet reference to the 541 I ever saw, other than threads on FPN, was an old Ebay listing, stating that the nibs were found on a backroom shelf in an old stationary store, where they probably had been since the 1940s. According to Shelby Foote, his life time supply of Esterbrook 313 Probate nibs was found on a similarly dusty shop shelf.

[supxor]

Ken, your script slant has such great slant uniformity. Envy. Thanks for sharing.

Edited June 9, 2014 by supxor

[supxor]

All of you pen folk pump me. May in our life times we see a return of penmanship, at the expense of computer keyboarding, returned to our schools.

[caliken]

Ken, your script slant has such great slant uniformity. Envy. Thanks for sharing.

After less than two years' study, your Script is truly remarkable.

 

Please keep posting.

 

Ken

[tdzb36]

Thanks for sharing. the artwork are very nice.

[Stompie]

 

 

Thanks for that.

 

I have a local antique type shop where there are 2 stalls that sometimes have boxes of nibs for sale. I have managed to get almost 400 nibs for £20 in total. The retail rate would have cost me well over £600!

 

 

[supxor]

Scripted a beautiful Paul Verlaine verse, yesterday. Pardon the erasure marks on the capital e.

[supxor]

....here is the Verlaine poem, which failed to be part of my previous entry.

[supxor]

Dear Good Pen Folk,

 

I submit a project I completed, today, for a friend.The poem is by the British poet, Michael Armstrong, and set to the music by Madeleine Dring, a late English composer.

 

The paper is simply stunning---a deep, indigo blue, Cansons Mi-Tiente. The white ink is the pure white (not the ivory), just released by McCaffery's Penman's Ink company. The size of the project is 14"x19.5".

 

...used a Nikko G Zebra nib with an oblique holder made by Christopher Yoke in Indianapolis. I asked him to put a Bill Lilly flange in it. Bill's flanges are longer than most, if not, all others. I find them to my liking, because I can bend/pitch them a bit lower for better ink flow and control.

 

Enjoy to the extent you wish and can.

 

Bob

 

Again, thanks for your interest--it is to me, far from a master scripter, to be quite humbling.

 

 

[measond]

This is beautiful! The white on dark blue is a lovely combination which I'm sure looks even better in person. I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that you have achieved this level of writing in just a few years. The thought is very encouraging and inspiring.

Thank you for sharing your work with us. It is such a delight to my eyes.

[smk]

Bob - your projects are both beautiful and inspiring. I especially like the flourishes you used on the M, T and A - they have a very natural flow to them and add much to the beauty of the piece.

 

Thank you for sharing.

 

- Salman

[supxor]

Thank you, Salman, very much. Any success that I might have with script is due to Bill Lilly, and Bill, only. I study his script and at his insistence that of E. A.. Lupfer and W. E. Dennis. As Bill, all of my work is "on hand," wrists and fingers. Unlike Bill, I do sketch my caps., first. It is my hope to get away from that, but such is what I must do.

 

Bob