Thank you so much for your encouragement,
@Erica McPhee - I do think that taking Inktober to get serious about my Copperplate, coupled with your expert advice, has pushed it forward a bit. It might almost be ready for prime time. I'm considering a collaboration with a scholar of 18th century literature next year, and a different collaboration with a 19th century musicologist, so I want to be ready!
@AnasaziWrites - here we are on the penultimate day of Inktober! I have to admit that I
badgered encouraged my spouse into gifting me Diamine's 2021 Advent Calendar, which is full of little 12ml bottles of ink behind the doors. If you're having fun with this and would like to keep working on your drawing skills... for the price of a lavish bottle of whisky (or two of your regular malts), you too can have an "Inkvent Calendar" - I'm planning on drawing a picture with each of them, using the name of the ink as the prompt. Actually, quite a few of this Inktober's drawings were done with the 2019 Invent inks. I usually do a test card to see what the ink is up to before I draw with it - putting it through its paces with broad edge and pointed pen calligraphy, and testing it for chromatography, shimmer, sheen, and shading.
I could start a thread in the service of Flourishers who are looking to work with colored ink - especially for those using fountain pens. After the success of the 2019 Invent Calendar, Diamine eventually released the inks in full sized (50ml) bottles. Would that be appropriate here, Erica? Would anyone be interested in such a thing? To keep it more calligraphy focused, I could just post the test chips and not the drawings (but maybe people like seeing the drawings too?). Or maybe after Inktober, everybody has had quite enough of me.
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