anfractuous

[Ysa]

Anfractuous  (adjective)
-  characterized by windings and intricate turnings; sinuous; circuitous:

I'd love to see the more experienced calligraphers write this word with a lot of anfractuous flourishes. hehe. 

[tintenfuchs]

Very cool! I'll post something later.

[joi]

yeesh!  barely picked up the pen last week due to family stuff and Easter...and it shows...i'm barely controlling the walnut ink, terrible f, dragging ink, and didn't square the top of the a, and some serious spacing issues...use it or lose it!  some good warm up and practice will fix it...so just look at the beautiful blackwell style copper flange by Heber!

[arherbgm]

Yeah, what a pity it's so bad!    You're so funny... it is GORGEOUS!!!  I'll even go so far as to say that yours, joi, are some of the more inspirational Instagram pics for me personally... just the right amount of flourish with such a lyrical quality.  And when I'm ready to get into Pearl Ex, I'm looking you up!

Arlen

[joi]

oh Arlen you are too kind! thank you!
just goes to show that no matter where we are on the skill spectrum you are hopefully always a student, always learning, always refining, always finding new elements of your script that need attention. its one of the things i love most and why i keep at it!

[Erica McPhee]

LOVE this! Great word - thank you for posting this! 

[joi]

oh Erica that is awesome!  LURVE that t!

[Erica McPhee]

Thanks Joi! 

[Linda Y.]

Wow! Gorgeous all around!

And Erica I love how your word has the meaning in it.

[Joel]

I will surely miss this. Here's my sample of anfractuous.

[prasad]

Beautiful work Joel

I will surely miss this.

Reference to "you know you are a calligrapher when..."

Joel sitting in his cabin twiddling his thumbs waiting for the internet connection so he can post on FF

I can seriously picture this

-Prasad

[Joel]

Beautiful work Joel

I will surely miss this.

Reference to "you know you are a calligrapher when..."

Joel sitting in his cabin twiddling his thumbs waiting for the internet connection so he can post on FF

I can seriously picture this

-Prasad

Hahaha...  thanks Prasad, we'll be leaving soon in a couple of hours and our ship will be at sea for the next 20 days... and yes I can see myself doing that in my cabin waiting for strong signal. I'll miss you guys. Take care always.

[Estefa]

Love all the examples … What a perfect excuse to try a lot of flourishing …! So here's my take:



Who's interested, I uploaded as well a video on YouTube, it's here:



All this needs work, but it's interesting to try out such overlapping flurishes made up by several lines …

[no7fish]

I realize this isn't the newest word of the day but I couldn't come up with anything nice for hobbledehoy so here's my shot at Anfractuous.

[ericp]

I realize this isn't the newest word of the day but I couldn't come up with anything nice for hobbledehoy so here's my shot at Anfractuous.

Hobbledehoy is the new Anfractuous       Let's try it!   (Shouldn't be too hard, it describes my usual awkward style really well  )

UPDATE:  Oh just saw the other thread.  Never mind.