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Ann Finley

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

links to 15 of Caliken's calligraphic demo videos Lots of goodies in this one post!

Caliken's italic sample video. The master gives us a glimpse! smile.gif

Caliken - handwriting sample video. This one is in the Copperplate hand.

From zigzags into writing... Gunnlaugur Briem introduces a simple and useful concept. From here you'll want to go to page 1 of his model pages. In the left panel you'll see the continuing model pages.

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

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.
Ann Finley
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