Handwriting Aids and LINKS to lesson sites & other helpful sites

Handwriting Aids and LINKS to lesson sites & other helpful sites various helpful topics including manuscripts to view

#1 Ann Finley

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Posted 14 November 2005 - 09:39 PM

FOR ANY TYPE OF HANDWRITING PRACTICE

Ideally, alphabet sentences should be fairly short and, hopefully make sense. I have a collection of them--some of which are quite contrived--such as, "Seven wildly panting fruit-flies gazed anxiously at the juicy bouncing kumquat." :sick:

I've chosen some of the better sentences to list below. Most of us are already familiar with:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Here are nine others:

1. Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
2. Several fabulous dixieland jazz groups played with quick tempo.
3. Back in my quaint garden, jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.
4. Five or six big jet planes zoomed quickly by the new tower.
5. Exploring the zoo, we saw every kangaroo jump and quite a few carried babies.
6. I quickly explained that many big jobs involve few hazards.
7. Jay Wolf is quite an expert on the bass violin, guitar, dulcimer, ukulele and zither.
8. Expect skilled signwriters to use many jazzy, quaint old alphabets effectively.
9. The wizard quickly jinxed the gnomes before they vaporized.

This post has been edited by Ann Finley: 12 March 2008 - 08:56 PM

#2 Ann Finley

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Posted 12 March 2007 - 08:55 PM

Links to sites that offer handwriting instructions, tips, and/or images to aid in handwriting improvement.

Caliken's calligraphic videos A collection of links to caliken's demos of various calligraphic hands.

James Pickering's italic handwriting directory page Many, many FPN members have received inspiration and good instructions from visiting his site! Posted Image

Paul Antonio's site James Pickering posted this link to Paul's site recently. Paul has done some beautiful work that you may wish to view.

IAMPETH Lessons--Copperplate, Spencerian and more.

Printable Guidelines for various calligraphic hands.

Russ Stutler's Penmanship Links, our thanks to Elaine for this one!

more Guidelines, including curved ones This is software for making guidelines and offers a 30 day free trial. Elaine has reviewed this software here.

Guideline Generator AKA Scribbler - thanks to David Shafer for sharing this info.

Caliken's italic guidelines (scroll down about 1/2 way) - thanks to Caliken & others that provided pdf files, etc.

Formation of Italic Guidelines, an explanation, our thanks to Caliken.

Copperplate Guidelines Kellet guidelines, our thanks to fifthblackbird.

This post has been edited by Ann Finley: 12 March 2010 - 03:43 AM