Qotw - 2018

[PurplePlum]

Okay tried that one.

 

Higgins Eternal

Jospeph Gillot nib

WHS cream textured premium letter inkjet paper.

 

 

[dms525]

 

 

 

[PurplePlum]

Great lettering DM. Nice and consistent. Do you scan your paper?

 

I should get a new cable for my scanner. Our rabbit chewed right through it!

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Everybody is as masterful as usual.

 

I tried to slant my Italic this time.

Note for me not to use the back of the page of this paper...

 

[Andrew_L]

My turn

 

https://images.vfl.ru/ii/1536760909/d504386f/23304505_m.jpg

 

https://images.vfl.ru/ii/1536760909/bd75160e/23304506_m.jpg

 

(more details on the site)

[Stompie]

[dms525]

Great lettering DM. Nice and consistent. Do you scan your paper?

 

I should get a new cable for my scanner. Our rabbit chewed right through it!

 

Thank you, Purple.

 

It's been too long since I have practiced a Humanist Bookhand-type script, and I was using a new, rather challenging italic nib. But that script seemed appropriate to the quotation.

 

This page was indeed scanned. You avoid lighting problems relative to phone photos - at least for me. You loose the lovely red sheen that Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo shows. Can't win 'em all.

 

In the words of Elmer Fudd, "Wascaly Wabbit!"

 

David

[Andrew_L]

How about this?

 

“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful of your life.”

Mark Twain

 

[PurplePlum]

Excellent lettering from everyone I see!

 

David, yes a very wascaly wabbit indeed! I can see that the scanned items are much more flattering. Must remember to get that new cable.

 

The new quote is very positive, I'll give that one a go this evening.

[Inky.Fingers]

Andrew, what pen holder and which oblique nib was used? Beautiful!

 

Edited September 19, 2018 by _InkyFingers

[Stompie]

 

 

My pleasure, I know how busy life can get at times.

 

Is it not an amazing quotation! I was quite surprised to read it as I was under the impression that that sort of saying was a modern day quotation. Pity though, that after all these years we have not learnt anything by those words of Dickens!

[Stompie]

[Andrew_L]

Andrew, what pen holder and which oblique nib was used? Beautiful!

 

Thanks. This is vintage French pen holder Blanzy №1655 and vintage French dip nib Baignol & Farjon Baionnette EF. These are my favorites holder and nib at the moment. I also like a Hunt 101 Imperial, but these two I use every day .

[dms525]

 

 

Pens: Franklin-Christoph Model 02 with F-C music nib. Pelikan M800 Grande Place LE with B nib ground to CI

Inks: Sheaffer Red. Visconti Blue

Paper: Rodia

 

David

[Inky.Fingers]

[Andrew_L]

Good job _Inky Fingers! I liked your spencerian.

I do not have enough patience to make pressure only for strictly assigned places (capital + t, f, h, d)

 

My exercise:

https://images.vfl.ru/ii/1537692564/1f3f3c5e/23464674_m.jpg

[Stompie]

For this week:

 

“Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise,
Of painting speech, and speaking to the eyes?
That we by tracing magic lines are taught
How to embody, and to colour thought?”
― William Massey

[dms525]

 

 

Pen: Stipula Etruria LE for Corsani, 0.9 mm italic nib

Ink: Stipula Sepia

Paper: Rhodia

 

This pen arrived by FedEx this morning. I inked it without rinsing out the nib and piston or anything. This writing was copied freehand from my computer screen for later calligraphic presentation - or my attempt at it, anyway. The ink flow seemed excessive, as it often is with a new pen just inked. But I liked the informal, cursive italic enough to post it as is.

 

David

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I forgot to post last week's quote, apologies!

 

Pilot Pluminix B,

Diamine Shimmertastic Shimmering Seas.

 

[Aminah]

Happy New Year 2018, David, Salman!

 

 

 

Wingsung 698 with a modified flex nib

College Day Candela ink, my own mixture

 

OMG,

 

This writing is better than ever.