Left handed spencerian - Desiderata Pen

[Bloosqr]

This is a first post from a long term lurker. 
 

During April of 2020 our son was born and the beginning of Covid happened. I was staring at a VP Pilot that I had given my wife years back and started a rabbit hole of “I’m going to teach myself how to use this thing” 

 

I spent the first year or two going through a few versions of the Mott book ( and the Sull worksheets ) with one of the Mottishaw 912 pens ( and pilot black ink). Sometime late last year I discovered dip nibs and Mccaffreys gloss black ink and so opened up a new can of worms trying to replicate that with a pen I can walk around with me ( this is basically a weird zen hobby, a bit like meeting fiddle gadgets ;)). The spacing isn’t awesome but the R&K ink Scabiosa here with a now 3 week old zebra nib ( I just rinse the nib and feed overnight and stick it back in the pen ) with one of those DesiderataPens ( BAMF ( who can resist a name like that )) is pretty nice and almost as good ( in my hands as what I can get with a with Mccaffreys or Walnut and a Leonardt nib )

 

In any case just wanted to say hello and mention I have definitely been taking posts here both as inspiration and practice sheets

 

Avi

[Bloosqr]

Here is the same text with the 912 FA, I’m being far more controlled here and I think the picture brings out the text a bit better ( and it is a bit easier to read for every day writing / reading ) but the desiderata is definitely quite beautiful with crazy fine hairlines 

 

 

[knarflj]

It's just a day or two ago I was part of a conversation where we were talking about how most of us discovered during lockdown that the reason certain things never got done wasn't "I don't have time."  Looks as though you are the exception who really used that time constructively--really nice work for just a few years' study!  Thanks for posting.

[Bloosqr]

23 hours ago, knarflj said:

It's just a day or two ago I was part of a conversation where we were talking about how most of us discovered during lockdown that the reason certain things never got done wasn't "I don't have time."  Looks as though you are the exception who really used that time constructively--really nice work for just a few years' study!  Thanks for posting.

 

 

The wonders of no commute time for a few years I have naturally really quite terrible handwriting (and still do) but am trying to reincorporate it back into my real handwriting. One of the hard things about being a left hander is "flexing" the nib requires very weird ways of holding a pen. In my case what I ended up landing on was basically writing with the paper tilted 90 degrees clockwise - which works for flexing and underwriting but does make it a bit hard to read for regular note taking / etc.  

[Bloosqr]

This is perhaps a bit easier to see without all the “Seyes” practice lines. This is a newer nib ( 2 days) with Scabiosa R&K ink ( also in the pen 2 days ) with regular dot paper 

 

Regards

 

[Inkyways]

@Bloosqr Lovely writing. I am into calligraphy and seen this pen  on several calligrapher's hand. I'd love to have this pen but I have many more pens and I don't bother to get it. But perhaps one day.

I like your  writing and it is clean and neat. Kudos for your writing as left handed people believe they can't do calligraphy. It is not true there are many master penman /female included  who are left handed.  

Here is a link to----- Master Penman John DeCollibus: Basic tips for Left-Handed Calligraphers----

 

Perhaps you know about him and seen this video before. I am adding this anyhow it is fun to see how he work.

I guess you are into spencerian basic before this for sure. I think dip pen is the main tool for mastering  any style.

So I am also interested in calligraphy.  Thank you for this thread. 

 

[Tasmith]

Looks great!

[Bloosqr]

On 7/14/2023 at 1:59 PM, Inkyways said:

@Bloosqr Lovely writing. I am into calligraphy and seen this pen  on several calligrapher's hand. I'd love to have this pen but I have many more pens and I don't bother to get it. But perhaps one day.

I like your  writing and it is clean and neat. Kudos for your writing as left handed people believe they can't do calligraphy. 

 

I had not seen that, thank you for posting. It took me a long time to figure out how to write as it was completely unnatural to hold the nib to get the flex going in the right direction. I am more or less using the straight nib style @ about 3 minutes in the video but I hold the paper at an almost 90 degree angle to the body. It makes it somewhat hard to read for every day writing but it works. Perhaps at some point I can bend it back to the angle more akin the video. 

Regards