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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Some advice from experience

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:25:02 PM »

@Ken Fraser  I know!  I’ve been to St. Andrew’s!  My husband plays golf & watches it on TV!  I’d rather watch paint dry than watch golf! 😃 But, that’s just me!  My favorite sport is what we Yankees call “soccer”!  (You probably call it “football”!)  Americans can’t call it that, because we already have an established American sport called “football” & it’s NOTHING like the what the rest of the world calls “Football”! 😃

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Some advice from experience

« on: October 01, 2024, 06:06:18 PM »

@Ken Fraser I’m grinning about a Scot claiming that golf is important! 😃

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Some advice from experience

« on: September 30, 2024, 08:55:41 AM »

@Ken Fraser:  I’m chewing on “Calligraphy is a minority activity.”  I think that I understand what you’re talking about, but I really want to grasp the full meaning & concept!!  So, I’m busy thinking about it!!

The rest of the advice is brilliant & super helpful!  Thank you! 

Janis

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Copperplate, Engrosser's Script, Roundhand Calligraphy / Re: Lowercase r in Engrosser's Script / Copperplate

« on: September 30, 2024, 08:47:22 AM »

@Erica McPhee:  Aye, yi, yi!  (Sp.??).  My poor, little pea brain still reads most of those letters as minuscule “v’s”!  Is it just me??  I’m still digging through books & references & exemplars for examples of “r” that my eye & brain can read & accept as a lower case “r”! 

I think “normal” people would be incredulous over how much I am obsessing over one little letter! But, I strongly prefer clarity & precision.  Obscurity is not my strength!   This’ crazy!!

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: The Ford "r"

« on: September 29, 2024, 05:17:45 PM »

So, the problem that I have with most Copperplate miniscule “r”s is that my eyes don’t “read” them as “r”. - I see “v”, or indecipherable.  Since I’m trying to communicate, that doesn’t make much sense to me.  I’m pouring over my exemplars, looking for one that maybe communicates better to an unsophisticated reader what letter it is!

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: The Prize Papers

« on: September 27, 2024, 11:06:02 AM »

@Jayantcy:  Maybe 15 years ago, I had a legal document that I wanted another lawyer to review.  I pondered how to get it to him.  (An aside:  For reasons never ever fully resolved, our email systems “fought” against each other. - I couldn’t successfully email him anything & he couldn’t email me anything, either.). So, how to get it to him??  At the time, “thumb drives” were in vogue, but they were relatively expensive.  I always bought the thumb drives with the largest memory capacity.  I did NOT want to give one of those away!  So, how could I get him the document in a format that he could review, change and/or edit??  I sat wondering about it for a bit & then it finally struck me!  On a disk!  On a CD-Rom!  Technology had moved on, but people still had computers with CD-ROM drives, so he could open the document if I put it on a CD-ROM!  So, I burned the document to a CD & drove it over to his office!  It’s amazing how technology changes EVERYTHING so fast & our little brains have to scramble to keep up!!

Or, maybe it’s just me!

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: The Ford "r"

« on: September 27, 2024, 10:36:47 AM »

I am presently working on minuscule r’s!  I have always written them as a regular, cursive “r”.  I have finally come to recognize that most Copperplate scribes pen a much more complex, multi-stroke “r”.  Geeze, Louise!  You think you know something only until someone proves to you that you don’t!  I look at accomplished penmen (I’m looking at you @Ken Fraser, @Erica McPhee, @schin, @AnasaziWrites, etc.!)  and wonder if I’m EVER going to get to the point where they are!  I swear that I really am trying to learn & improve!! 

Janis

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Show & Tell / Re: District Council

« on: September 23, 2024, 11:20:54 AM »

@Ken Fraser What does the lettering in the banner mean?

Janis

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Show & Tell / Re: Cover of book of recipies

« on: August 28, 2024, 06:54:06 AM »

@Ken Fraser That’s beautiful!  But, I don’t like the majiscule “A”.  It’s too hard to read!

Janis

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Illumination

« on: August 20, 2024, 08:25:11 AM »

That’s so gorgeous,  don’t know where to start!!  Give me a few!…

Janis

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Hotel identity

« on: August 19, 2024, 06:21:14 PM »

I’ve only ever tried pointed pen Uncial (Mike Kecsig; sp.?).  I am going to give broad-edge a try!

Janis

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Hotel identity

« on: August 19, 2024, 01:25:18 PM »

I’m still trying to dissect the pretty lettering!  What’s the name of that “hand”?  Pen angle?? It’s so pretty, but likely beyond me! 😃

Janis

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Hotel identity

« on: August 18, 2024, 07:55:44 PM »

I love that, Ken!  What ink is that??  I love the color-changing properties! 

Janis

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Sign for an office

« on: August 12, 2024, 08:53:00 PM »

I second the gouache recommendation!  And, laminating the finished sign will help preserve it.

And, only because I love to be prepared, I’d probably get the sign professionally scanned in and save it to the cloud.  If the original sign fades, etc, you can easily reprint at a lower cost. If the client wants another “original”, no problem!  They can pay me double! 

Janis

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Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Text for The National Galleries of Scotland

« on: August 12, 2024, 08:42:32 PM »

Oh, Ken, that’s brilliant!  I’m going to try that when I can letter again!!  (I fell & broke my lettering/handwriting arm 10 days ago.  Surgery tomorrow!)

Janis