I’ve plucked up the courage to share this piece, which I have done as part of a birthday present for a family member. It’s only my second Spencerian piece of work, the first is winging its way via airmail to Starlee with a small packet of sand (see her post in the Coffee and Nib-bles thread if you don’t understand that!). I’m on Mott copy book 2 of Spencerian but have jumped ahead a little to get the letters I needed for this. It also exercised my layout skills, which mostly worked but I see I have some way to go still. The materials were Bristol Board, Diamine Sepia fountain pen ink mixed 4:1 with Gum Arabic, written with a bog standard J nib in a bog standard straight pen holder. I used a 52° sheet underneath with an iPad as a light box. I used Guided Access to disable the touch screen. It was fun and I have been encouraged by the results. Shade needs a lot of practice and my decoration leaves much to be desired, but it is coming together.