Now for five Latin phrases that feature in five favourite films.
Tried to find more, but this seems to be something of a niche as I couldn’t find too many lists of films with a Latin phrase. Might just have to find other famous phrases instead!
Written with my trusted Speedball C3. Controlling the ink flow by only adding a tiny drop with the Sushi Fish dropper seems to be the key!Here’s the answers if you got stuck 🙂
The answers for those who found one or two a bit tricky!
Pie Jesu Domine, Dona eis requiem – Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Libera te tutemet ex inferis – Event Horizon
Vi veri universum vivus vici – V for Vendetta
Romanes eunt domus – Monty Python’s The Life of Brian
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 