Hi,
I'm Gil. I live in Sydney, Australia and have been for twenty years and, before that, elsewhere in Australia for a decade, so I get by with my spoken and written English but my penmanship is, as they say, pretty ordinary. I'd like to improve on that, and I'd been keen to at least correct the form of my cursive script and maybe learn a new hand. I hope to learn much here, and I pray you all will be generous with your guidance.
Even though I haven't written anything much in Chinese – by hand or otherwise – in more than a quarter of a century, my Chinese handwriting is thankfully still passable, and one of my recently reignited interests is in better producing the shapes of kaishu (i.e. regular Chinese script) using fountain pens, and I like experimenting with different nibs – soft, hard, flex, the fude, the Concord, etc. – to see which ones would allow me to do so. That is another reason why I was referred here by someone on the Fountain Pen Network; there is a forum section on Eastern calligraphy here, in which I look forward to more discussion and participation.
See you soon!
(In case anyone wants to look it up independently using digital resources, the text on the card is:
小弟初到貴論壇
請大家多多指教
which means, “I'm new to your forum; please advise and guide me generously.”)
