Qotw - 2017

[bobje]

Impressive rendition, Sagar. What does it feel like to move from copperplate to Spencerian?

[Sagarb]

Impressive rendition, Sagar. What does it feel like to move from copperplate to Spencerian?

I love both Bob..Since engrosser's take much time so when I don't have much time I try Spencerian.

[drv1913]

FPN QOTW #15 by Dawn, on Flickr

[smk]

I have missed several weeks and used this weekend to catch up. My intention was to be very regular but I guess I had underestimated my laziness inertia.

 

Also, it seems to me that we are running a week behind on quotations as last week's was posted just a couple of days ago. Shall we add a new one on Monday or just let it slip?

 

Here are the submissions I have missed to date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Salman

[Runnin_Ute]

Ok, for the next one......

 

Life is not a spectator sport. Play is where life lives. Find your play and experience this whole world on the other side of sweat.

 

- Dr. George Sheehan

 

from Running & Being: The Total Experience

Edited April 17, 2017 by Runnin_Ute

[Inky.Fingers]

 

 

[Inky.Fingers]

[Sagarb]

I have missed several weeks and used this weekend to catch up. My intention was to be very regular but I guess I had underestimated my laziness inertia.

 

Also, it seems to me that we are running a week behind on quotations as last week's was posted just a couple of days ago. Shall we add a new one on Monday or just let it slip?

 

Here are the submissions I have missed to date:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Salman

Mind blowing!!

[Inky.Fingers]

Salman,

 

Let's catch up with an extra quote for this week.

 

“Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing;
’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

[smk]

I think we are on track now with Runnin_Ute's quote selection but I don't mind doing two for this week - it will be twice the fun :-)

 

Sagar - thank you for the kind words :-)

 

- Salman

[Andreas Weber]

In the beginning it was said that normal handwriting was acceptable:

So that's my everyday, note-taking hand.

Edited April 17, 2017 by Andreas Weber

[darrin1200]

This is my first quote. I have been very bad about practicing. Hopefully participating here, will help me increase my practice time.

 

Edited April 17, 2017 by darrin1200

[dms525]

 

 

Pen: Conway-Stewart Beliver with IM nib, customized by Masuyama.

Ink: Franklin-Christoph Ink '17 (LE for Philadelphia pen show)

Paper: Rhodia

 

David

[dms525]

 

 

Pen: (Modern) Onoto Magna with 0.7 mm CI nib ground by Richard Binder.

Ink: Iroshizuku Shin-kai

Paper: Rhodia No. 19 blank pad

 

David

[Sagarb]

Such a lovely italic as usual David and the pen as well..

Edited April 18, 2017 by Sagarb

[ksm]

Still working on Foundational hand.

 

[bobje]

Welcome to this practice thread, Darrin!

 

[Inky.Fingers]

Weber - very nice everyday hand.

Darrin - practice, practice makes perfect. I've not mastered the flex pen yet.

David - Italic is life. Lovely, lively script.

David - That Gothic is something! A little bit of italic in it?

KSM - Foundation with a Capless? Nice!

 

 

Sample of WS using English Law Hand.

Edited April 18, 2017 by _InkyFingers

[dms525]

Sagarb - Thank you!

 

_I.F. - The gothic script is a version of Gothic Bâtarde. Lloyd Reynolds had a version of this script that was even closer to Italic. I really should learn it, because I find it quite beautiful. Shakespeare's own hand was "Secretary," which has some similarity to Gothic Bâtarde and was contemporaneous to it, I think. However, I cannot write it or, for that matter, read it!

 

Happy writing!

 

David

[bobje]

For some reason I thought I read an explanation from the Folger library or someplace that secretary hand was developed specifically to make legal contracts more difficult to read, requiring professional legal counsel. I can't find the reference, but it's amusing anyway. What an illegible hand.