Today is #WorldCalligraphyDay! So, time for a Calligraphy practice post!
More movie quotes! This time some philosophy from Drs. Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler of Jurassic Park fame.
This one was the second attempt – my first didn’t have any spelling mistakes (a first?), but also on one of the lines I started writing on the wrong guideline, the capital D of the last line was on the wrong baseline, and I even got a word wrong on the first line!
Quite close up you can see a little bleeding in the paper. This is probably either the thinness of the ink, or (more likely), the paper I’m using is marginally too absorbant.
This work, and all the others shown on this blog to date, have all been on my layout pad I got with my very first order (Daler-Rowney A3 Layout Pad) – which is perfectly fine for practice work. The paper is fairly lightweight (45gsm) so my guide sheets underneath show up really well – though sometimes ink bleeds through to the other side sometimes (particularly when ink flow has been a tad too high off the nib).
I do have a pad of heavier paper ready (Bienfang 207 Calligraphic Parchment Paper) with 74gsm paper – but it feels so good quality I can’t bring myself to write on it yet until I get better with some shortcomings in my technique (I’m still definitely in the practicing newb stage).
Jim Scribbles 