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Introductions / Re: Hello from Sweden

« on: July 15, 2016, 03:02:55 AM »

Welcome!  Does your wife do calligraphy? And is she on the forum, too??

Hi hubby!  See you at dinner!

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Introductions / Re: Greetings from Iowa

« on: June 29, 2016, 12:54:02 PM »

Welcome to the forum Daniel!  What kind of calligraphy do you do?

/Rim

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Introductions / Re: NAMASTE from INDIA

« on: June 16, 2016, 10:31:32 AM »

Hello Ashok

Thank you for including pictures of your work, very beautiful!

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Introductions / Re: hello! Newbie here from Thailand

« on: June 16, 2016, 10:26:41 AM »

Hi Fatima!

Welcome to the forum

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Introductions / Re: Hello everyone

« on: May 21, 2016, 04:46:10 AM »

Hello James!

Your exemplars are captivating, I'm learning copperplate now but hope to learn italic in the future too for writing notes and letters.

I'm very glad you joined the forum and I got to see your work

Rim

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Introductions / Re: Newbie from North Georgia!

« on: May 21, 2016, 04:36:25 AM »

Welcome! I'm a newbie too 😊

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Introductions / Re: Hello! Another newbie form the Philippines

« on: May 21, 2016, 04:25:02 AM »

Hi Devs

Welcome to the forum! I use a toothbrush either  little toothpaste on it to prep my nibs

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Quiet

« on: May 08, 2016, 08:46:26 PM »

Summer is finally here so we had a barbecue!

And had dinner with friends and morning copperplate practice. Working on learning the oval

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Copperplate, Engrosser's Script, Roundhand Calligraphy / Re: Copperplate Example

« on: May 07, 2016, 06:03:17 PM »

Very beautiful!

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Tools & Supplies / Re: My pens.

« on: May 07, 2016, 05:55:10 PM »

These pens are amazing! Really beautiful

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Introductions / Re: Hi from Sweden

« on: April 29, 2016, 05:00:11 PM »

Shiela
Thank you so much! Sweden is really beautiful and worth a visit. But I might be a bit bias here 😉 please let me know if you come to Stockholm!

Thank you so much Valerie ❤

Hi Gaby, my son is 10 months and in a super cute giggly slash mini tantrums phase. He has a early bed time though so I try to practice at night!

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Rubber gloves while doing calligraphy?

« on: April 29, 2016, 04:51:37 PM »

I work in a lab too. I really dislike writing with gloves. Even quick notes 😊

Bianca, Brad, If you try these pinky finger gloves or make their own dracula type one, let us know how it worked out 😅

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Open Flourish | General Discussion / Re: Rubber gloves while doing calligraphy?

« on: April 28, 2016, 05:25:09 AM »

If i want to avoid my hand touchibng the paper (like for embossing) I just place another sheet of paper to rest my hand on and move it along. Haven't done it for calligraphy though, but should work if you want to avoid your hand touching the paper.

Never heard of rubber gloves! Only seen these before;  http://www.jetpens.com/SmudgeGuard-SG1-1-Finger-Glove-Cool-Black-Small/pd/13657
anyone used them?

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Brush Calligraphy / Re: first try with pentel's aquash

« on: April 18, 2016, 08:17:55 AM »

Hi Renee!

Wow that's really great for a first try! I have all the sizes of the aquash pen and I only use the fine point one for lettering. The medium and large ice mostly used to add watercolor wash on some pieces.

There are two ways to hold a brush pen that has bristle hair. You could either hold it as you hold a felt tip brush pen which is angled. Or you could hold it upright with the brush barely touching the paper for hairlines and then push the pen down with your finger to create downstrokes. Try both ways and see which fits!

The brush makes a lot of difference at least for me when doing watercolor calligraphy. Try a winsor and Newton cotman. So many great watercolors out there. I like concentrated liquid watercolors that you can just dip your brush in. Ph. Martins are great. Heard good things about ecoline but never tried it

Good luck!

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Introductions / Re: Hi from Sweden

« on: April 17, 2016, 03:08:07 AM »

Thank you so much Scarlet and Bianca! Looking forward to being here 😊