The Meisterstück 149 Calligraphy Appreciation Thread

[fpupulin]

Still under the Covid storm...

 

[Michael R.]

looks great! ... and intense mood.

I always come back to this thread to view the images :-)

Cheers

 

Michael

[ralfstc]

On a rainy Saturday...

 

 

Oh. My. G*d. That's incredible.

[fpupulin]

During the era of orchid fever, some of the plants that today seem very common to us were instead considered true rarities, because they came from unexplored and indomitable places, difficult to reach and dangerous. The orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis, which we find today in profusion on the shelves of the supermarket, were then very popular, because the flowers lasted a long time and were relatively easy to grow in the hot "stove".

In 1887, William Boxall, employee of the British company Hugh Low & Company to "hunt" orchids in the Philippines, discovered a species of Phalaenopsis with large, waxy, white or slightly cream-colored flowers, which had strange irregular light purple spots, a pattern never seen in a species of its kind. Boxall sent home his discovery, and eventually a plant reached the hands of the then famous Prof. Reichenbach, known as "the orchid King".

Reichenbach named it Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana var. hieroglyphica. The variety name was suggested to him by the flowers "covered with small dots and circles, or curious figures, of cinnamon color". The spots are, in effect, small bars, points and circles arranged so as to resemble the engravings (or glyphs) of an ancient writing. The word hieroglyphĭcus is the Latin adjectival form of a word coined by the Greeks to describe Egyptian writing, hieroglyphikà (grámmata, or sacred engraved letters.

Modern botanists - and I agree with this interpretation - consider that the similarities of the variety hieroglyphcia with Phalaenopsis lueddemanniana are only superficial, and therefore treat Boxall's discovery as a valid species. Here at home, Phalaenopsis hieroglyphica blooms regularly in the summer, during the months of June–August, disrespectful of Covid.... The flowers are very long-lasting and barely perceptible with cineol, an aroma similar to that of eucalyptus.

After having illustrated it in the distant 1984 and photographed it under any possible light in past years, this year I decided to make it a less "scientific" drawing with my Meisterstück 149 Calligraphy and Permanent Black ink. The Moleskine notebook is one of those with watercolor paper, with a heavy paper that behaves very well with the ink of the fountain pens.

[TheDutchGuy]

That’s really, really beautiful. All those thousands upon thousands of strokes to make the background, that’s dedication. This is real. If you were to sell them, folks would queue up.

[fpupulin]

Thank you. my friend!

 

With the same 149 Calligraphy pen and technique, a couple of months ago I also sketched another orchid plant, Phalaenopsis violacea, my preferred orchid among almost 30 thousand species in the world!

 

[Karmachanic]

Meditative work.

[max dog]

Wow FPUPULIN, your artistic facility is remarkable! You certainly have the talent to push the potentials of the 149 Calligraphy flex pen to it's maximum potential and beyond.

 

I've just completed a 192 page journal in the last few weeks, and found great pleasure letting all my thoughts and ideas flow onto paper with the joyful grace and elegance this wonderful pen allows. Such a pleasurable pen to write with as an every day workhorse writer, with a nib that begs to do some flourish, and I can't help but indulge.

 

I've discovered the Calligraphy flex nib enables me to control the line and ink flow to use any ink with my Moleskine without bleed through. With very little pressure, it puts down a wonderfully fine hairline that won't bleed. It's wonderful how it gives such control, that other nibs just aren't capable of.

[como]

Fpupulin: Seeing your calligraphy, drawings and sketches is a real joy. What wonderful ways to enrich the experience of owning a beautiful, classic and competent pen!

[fpupulin]

Wow FPUPULIN, your artistic facility is remarkable! You certainly have the talent to push the potentials of the 149 Calligraphy flex pen to it's maximum potential and beyond.

 

I've just completed a 192 page journal in the last few weeks, and found great pleasure letting all my thoughts and ideas flow onto paper with the joyful grace and elegance this wonderful pen allows. Such a pleasurable pen to write with as an every day workhorse writer, with a nib that begs to do some flourish, and I can't help but indulge.

 

I've discovered the Calligraphy flex nib enables me to control the line and ink flow to use any ink with my Moleskine without bleed through. With very little pressure, it puts down a wonderfully fine hairline that won't bleed. It's wonderful how it gives such control, that other nibs just aren't capable of.

 

Thank you max dog!

Your words "letting my thoughts and ideas flow onto paper with the joyful grace and elegance this wonderful pen allows" are the best description of the pleasure that the 149 Calligraphy can give to a writer. So true...

I have tried the Calligraphy with Perle Noire on a ruled Moleskine, but the bleed through was really too much on the boldest strokes. It was good however with the light strokes.

I will have to check other inks with the Calligraphy on my Moles, just to see which variety of inks may I opt for.

 

Fpupulin: Seeing your calligraphy, drawings and sketches is a real joy. What wonderful ways to enrich the experience of owning a beautiful, classic and competent pen!

 

Dear Como, thank you for your words. You must know that your avatar remember me when I was just a child, visiting parents at their villa in Monte Olimpino over the Como lake, with such a beautiful vistas... It is a grateful memory..

[fpupulin]

Well, a pointed nib is not the better choice to write some Roman square capital letters, but the "grace" was using the same pen for those, an enlarged Copperplate, and the sketch... and I had a lot of fun!

 

[gyasko]

The orchids, the calligraphy, the crests... it is all quite lovely. Thanks for showing us your work.

 

I wouldnt have guessed that the words other than grace were written with the 149 calligraphy.

[markcotter]

This thread is not helping me.

 

There is such amazing calligraphy and artwork from fpupulin that I feel anything and everything is possible wit this nib. This pen has shot to the top of my want list.

[como]

Unfortunately this pen won’t make me write or draw like fpupulin. Otherwise, i’d buy one immediately! Or will it?

[jagwap]

No it won't, immediately.

 

Practice works. I have been practicing with mine, and while I am not ready to show the results here, my flex caligraphy is improving considerably.

[fpupulin]

No it won't, immediately.

 

Practice works. I have been practicing with mine, and while I am not ready to show the results here, my flex caligraphy is improving considerably.

 

 

Thank you for posting your experience and commenting of your progresses.

 

Of course, no instrument alone can do anything good, but there are things you can not do without a proper instrument. Beside being good for very normal things like daily writing, the 149 Calligraphy is a useful instrument to practice pointed calligraphy!

 

I would be delighted to see your calligraphy work, when you would consider to share it with us all.

[fpupulin]

149 Calligraphy write "Calligraphy aims...". The paper is Canson Charcoal, a laid paper of 95 gr/m. The ink is MB Permanent Black.

 

 

[max dog]

I was just doing some quiet neat printing in my journal, but this suddenly came out of nowhere.

Beware with this pen occasional uncontrollable fits of flourish

[SchaumburgSwan]

149 Calligraphy write "Calligraphy aims...". The paper is Canson Charcoal, a laid paper of 95 gr/m. The ink is MB Permanent Black.

 

 

 

Oh, the Biogon of an SWC!

I like your photos and calligraphy here!

 

Best wishes and thank You

Jens

[fpupulin]

Jens, just yesterday I had a few hours in the "external world" shooting the desert streets with my Hasselblad SWC on Ilford FP4 film.

 

Coming back home, I noted that I just had a couple of unexposed frames remaining in the film magazine, so I arranged to shot a still life with my 500C/M and the 80mm Planar.

 

Hasselblad, black and white film, white paper, black ink, and Calligraphy...