I submitted this piece of decorative lettering to Regional Councils, Corporate Bodies etc. as an example of my work. It takes a long time to produce speculative work like this, but I find that it generally pays off, in the long run.........and it's fun to do!

Caliken,

That is beautiful. Great work.

Marvin

Caliken, This is a beautiful piece of work if only I could write like this!!

Marvin & andyg30 :-

Thank you for your interest and comments

caliken

Do you see a man skilled in his work?
He will serve before kings;
he will not serve before obscure men.

-- Proverbs 22:29 NIV



Ken,

Thank you for sharing your masterpieces with us.

That looks Fantastic.

I always look forward to see what you have in store for us in your posts.

Thank you for sharing.

Superb work - how long would it take you to produce the above script? Do you ever experience a "slip of the pen" and have to restart?

Simply beautiful: calligraphy as fine art! How did you do the shadows? Please share…

I'd bet you'd get slightly peed-off if, just as you finish it, you spot that you left-out one of the Ts in 'adaptation'

That'd be the sort of thing I'd do.... not that I could/would ever aspire to producing work like this....lovely.

Thank you all for your comments.

The work took around three hours to do, spread over a few days.

I have experienced a "slip of the pen", but rarely, thank goodness. Usually, there's no way of avoiding a fresh start.

Fortunately, this has never happened to me with a major work, such as a scroll or citation. I sometimes wonder if my concentration level is heightened with work where a slip-up would be a disaster!

Thanks, soloworx

I do the shadows last, by trial and error. It's easy to know when to stop, because the letters suddenly look 3 dimensional.
There's a fuller explanation here

Wow, that's beautiful. In particular, I love the black filigree behind the red letters.

Very beautiful work, Caliken. I especially like the use of the colours red and black together here.

Are you using two different pens to write "Decorative Lettering" and then "The beauty of a letter..."? What type of pen(s) would you use to write this?

Thanks,

Moravia

That's great! Do you ever do illuminated letters/manuscripts? Like monks did in mediaeval times.

Thank you, Moravia

"Decorative Lettering" was written with a Pilot Parallel 3.8mm pen with Aurora black ink and "The beauty of a letter....." was written with a Gillott 303 flexible nib in an oblique penholder, with Higgins Eternal black ink.

Thanks, Daosus

I did the filigree work first in the normal, flat 2 dimensions, as I feel that the overlaying of the red, 3 dimensional letter is more effective in contrast.

Thanks, freznow

For a time, I was employed as a calligrapher at the Court of the Lord Lyon - see here and I have done work of this nature, privately.

Scroll for a Prime Minister

Royal Address

Freedom Scroll for Sir David Steel

caliken

It looks beautiful, that must of tooken you forever to make.