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Completed/Past Exchanges / Re: ADVANCED EXCHANGE - Mimic a Master
« on: December 29, 2014, 03:44:10 PM »
Oh, boy. This will be a challenge. Daring to compare with the masters is not for the feint of heart or the fragile ego. But then, why not aspire to be a master? As Erica says, Be Brave, Love Life.
So many beautiful things to attempt.

1937
Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: A Beautiful Envelope
« on: December 29, 2014, 01:35:17 PM »
I've just received this beautiful envelope from Mike (AnasaziWrites) and I'm sure that he won't mind if I share it with you.

Thanks, Mike.

Thanks for posting this, Ken. Thanks for the compliment.

I'm so disappointed the USPS double cancelled this. I had it hand cancelled (the red circle), and figured it would not go through the machine (being international). What a hack job--the holiday cancel is some indistinguishable blob (Santa Claus?) and to put the bar code right through the middle of the address--awful. Should have put a stiffener in it to make it non-machinable.

That's it for me--I'm going to make my cards non-machinable from now on, even if it cost twice as much to send because of the extra weight and 21 cent surcharge. Or maybe the clear envelopes (but I do like to use real stamps and have the cancellation to show the date).

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Introductions / Re: Hello from Scotland
« on: December 27, 2014, 11:38:46 AM »
Awrite, Tom. Hou's aw wi ye?

1939
Coffee & Nib-bles / Re: How old are you?
« on: December 27, 2014, 11:29:24 AM »
Flipping ancient.
Hah! You're just a pup.
You want ancient? I gottcha ancient.
in January I will be 80! That's pretty ancient .
Life begins at 90.

1940
Coffee & Nib-bles / Re: Dasherie
« on: December 27, 2014, 10:47:51 AM »
My copy of Dasherie #2 arrived very quickly, and it is terrific. So much incredible talent out there.
Wonderful job, Erica. I can't imagine how much work that must have been to put together.

1941
I was beginning to think it was my imagination that I learned cursive in 1st grade because I've yet to encounter anyone else with that experience.  This article was such a relief to find:

http://www.abeka.com/Resources/Articles/TheBenefitsOfTeachingCursiveFirst.aspx
Not your imagination. I can barely remember, it was so long ago, but I'm pretty sure we leaned cursive in the mid-50's first grade, if not soon after.

I particularly like this, from the article you mentioned:

"The author of Teaching With the Brain in Mind put it another way:  'Two generations ago, 95% of people in America used handwriting. Today, most use keyboarding. Yet the skills of handwriting remain important. They are memory, focus, prediction, attention, sequencing, estimation, patience, and creativity.' Let us not be hasty to eliminate possibilities for students to develop cognition, learn skills, and learn work habits that will benefit them their whole life. Lessons in cursive writing are well worth the few minutes of class time given to them daily."

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Best Wishes for 2015
« on: December 26, 2014, 10:14:49 PM »
And a happy new yar.

Lovely.

1943
Thanks in part to this man, cursive is coming back.

1944
Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Spontaneity and Precision
« on: December 24, 2014, 01:19:11 PM »
Brush My Fennec wrote:

This is a species of manual dexterity, which as said above, I fancy will not be found to take place in any other art'

I would say there are many other forms of art requiring equal or more manual dexterity. How about the engraving found on some firearms and  fine watches?

Take a look what can be done by hand here, in metal or stone, where a single slip of the hand can ruin days or weeks of work:

http://www.familysealrings.com/



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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: A pen nib dress
« on: December 24, 2014, 12:43:04 PM »


LOL! Now replace that rock with a giant inkwell and he'll officially be a calligrapher's dreamboat!
Hey, that's no ordinary rock. That's part of a giant ink stick, about to be pulverized for use.

1946

IMHO, corrections are different from touch ups. Many scribes become very skilled at making corrections. If you are addressing envelopes and have extras, it may be easier to just address a new envelope. If the envelope took 5 minutes to address and the ZIP code has a 1 instead of a 7, you might be able to correct that in 30 seconds. It's not cheating, and it does not invalidate your title of *calligrapher.*
Totally agree. Being a slow writer myself, my Christmas cards this year (non-FF ones) would still be in production if I didn't correct the mistakes (fortunately few this year). Each envelope took about 20 minutes (most had a bird flourish, which I did before addressing them), and with 85-90 cards to do, I used every card I had and ran out of envelopes (fatal mistakes made thereon) just before finishing, and so used different envelopes to complete the task. I don't think the recipients will mind if I corrected a mistake when I could.

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Merry Christmas Everyone
« on: December 23, 2014, 04:49:04 PM »
Merry Christmas, everyone!

As I am not posting pics of my family on IG and I know that some might like to see: Here's the chance to peek.
(It's the picture we sent out as Holiday Greetings to family and friends - I know I know, no calligraphy... but I tried my best on the envelopes ;)
Beautiful.

1948
Broad Edge Pen Calligraphy / Re: Paying Homage to the Great Man
« on: December 22, 2014, 09:27:57 PM »
Ah, I see. Have you considered keeping photographs of your work? I saw the photograph here:

http://theflourishforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1763.msg24318#msg24318

and I thought it was much nicer than the scans because I can see in the photograph where the cut-and-pasting of the words and touching up with white goache was done, whereas in the scans the cut-and-pasting and touching up is not visible.

I suppose the advantage of the scans or photocopies is, though, that they can be carefully cut-and-pasted w/a scalpel and touched-up with white goache and you can say to people "this was all done by hand" and people who don't know much about these things will probably not realize, when looking at the scans or photocopies that the lettering was touched up and cut-and-pasted. It's quite a clever thing for sure.

Also did you recycle the lettering here:

http://theflourishforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=569.msg4904#msg4904

& here:

http://theflourishforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=1859.msg25701#msg25701

For the binder? I assume you decided it looked better without a border?
I sense a certain animosity with this post. Am I reading too closely?

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: A pen nib dress
« on: December 22, 2014, 05:25:37 PM »
If I see a smoking hot guy wearing a rippling dress of Spencerian 1 or 604EFs I'd tear it off him! ..Very gently.. then ignore him completely as I carefully disattach every nib..

/calligrapherproblems
You called?

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Share your USPS bloopers
« on: December 21, 2014, 06:36:24 PM »
  I put a lot into the Holiday Exchange and have no idea if tor how they're appreciated. 
Believe me, your cards are very much appreciated. Your holiday card was super. Thank you so much.

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