Arrogant and Offensive

Today’s calligraphy practice in copperplate script comes from a famous tweet from the UK Civil Service back in May 2020 that was swiftly deleted. It made the news!

Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?

I’m still slightly out of practice here and you can tell, particularly with the spacing of some vowels up against consonants, like the word “and”, and “you”. Word spacing has improved on the previous work, with only a couple of excessively-distant words in there now (the spacing between “Can” and “you”, I believe is the ideal, where there is only just a break between the trailing stroke of the “n” and the leading stroke of the “i”).

On the limits of this paper & ink combination, as you can see some bleeding happening where the inks gone down a bit thick and been absorbed into the paper.

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