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Your everyday hand is so beautifully executed, ksm.

 

Walnut ink, Brause 361 blue pumpkin nib. Day 25 of practice with engrosser's script.

 

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Your everyday hand is so beautifully executed, ksm.

 

Walnut ink, Brause 361 blue pumpkin nib. Day 25 of practice with engrosser's script.

 

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Very nice indeed! But not fair. My resistance to learning pointed pen styles is weakening.

 

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BTW - wasn't it Bobje's turn to select a quote for this week?

 

So he did.

the cat half awake

and half sleeping on the book

"Quantum Mechanics"

 

(inspired by a German haiku by Tony Böhle)

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Visconti Wall Street stock 1.3 mm stub nib. Visconti Sepia Ink. Rhodia paper.

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David,

About that Visconti Stub... I do not suppose I'll be able to afford one in foreseeable future, but I would like to hear about its properties. Is it such a wet noodle as they say?

 

@countrydirt:

Your italic is a bit too angular for my taste, but very legible otherwise.

What is nib width of your Pelikan?

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David,

About that Visconti Stub... I do not suppose I'll be able to afford one in foreseeable future, but I would like to hear about its properties. Is it such a wet noodle as they say?

 

@countrydirt:

Your italic is a bit too angular for my taste, but very legible otherwise.

What is nib width of your Pelikan?

It's just labeled with an I, so I'm guessing about 1 mm. It is pretty fat and doesn't really give much crispness but provides for some interesting effects with cursive.

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David,

About that Visconti Stub... I do not suppose I'll be able to afford one in foreseeable future, but I would like to hear about its properties. Is it such a wet noodle as they say?

 

 

 

The Palladium nib is springy, but not a "wet noodle" by any means. It is wet (generous ink flow), and, while it has a bit of flex, I don't believe it is intended to be used for line variation. IMO, the best use of this nib is with a feather-light touch. Then the feel of writing with it is very pleasurable.

 

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Meant to get this up yesterday or the day before, but misplaced a flash drive and had to dig out a different one.

I had to play with the image a bit, because the .jpg didn't seem to come out to be the right color when I transferred the file to my laptop -- it was flattened and so high-contrast that it looked like black ink on white paper (when in fact it was Noodler's Kung Te Cheng on creme colored Tomoe River paper).

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32426691605_14bc69aa6a_z.jpgFPN QOTW #3 by Dawn, on Flickr

 

Ink: Noodler's Midway Blue and Noodler's North African Violet mixed together, then NAV by itself

Nibs: Speedball B-5 and B-6

Paper: scrap of salvaged office letterhead

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Would love to join this thread. Great idea for practise Salman.

 

This weeks attempt is done with a dip pen, hope that is ok. Shall do some fountain pen writing in the next quotes. Practising using Salman's Copperplate tutorials and a little Ornamental Signature for signing it.

 

Iron gall ink, Gillott 303 nib and Excel Pro 160gsm Printer paper with guidelines printed on it.

 

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Happy writing all

Prasad

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Here is my submission. I figured this quote should be done in more of a handwriting style and decided to copy one of my favourite Biran Walker pieces. I could use more practice writing like this but am out of time this week.

 

Paper: No-name copy paper that takes ink well

Ink: Noodler's Black thinned with water

Nib: Gillot 303

 

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Prasad, love your capital letters, especially the W.

 

Salman, that submission is so eccentric, and capital D and B are funky like a stretched Lincoln Continental!

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