Trust word art

I had the pleasure of taking a "Letterista" class with Lisa Engelbrecht a couple of years ago. I had a lot of fun and Lisa is a great teacher. She gave the class some loosening-up exercises that I found to be very helpful for me.

I wanted to take a quick break from the painting I have on my table (helps me gain perspective and quiet the self-critic); so I grabbed my container of word art pens, markers and brushes, loosened-up and had some fun:

In fun I trust :-)

And now I am ready to get back into that painting...

Practicing "my" calligraphy with a new Gillott #303 nib...

and I like to change proportions, too. The letter height is too tall but I just like the way it looks :-)

Practicing with a dip nib and Noodler's Apache Sunset.

Keep this in mind (heh heh)

Dip nib love!

I love writing with my vintage Hunt #100 vintage dip nib - fabulous flex:

With or without a wand :-)

More:

Heh heh...

Playing around

with Photoshop and my word art. I removed the background from the scan and applied a  violet background layer. Fun results.
Why "SUSPECT"? I usually think of it as an adjective and it's just another word I like :-)

Noodler's Apache Sunset, Pilot Parallel pen, Uni-Ball Signo gel pen, Copic multi liner pen

Dip that nib

and do some fun calligraphy!
Here are two vintage nibs - part of an order I just received from www.pendemonium.com
When I use a fountain pen, I want a very smooth writing nib with little to no feedback. However, when I'm using dip nibs, I enjoy the sound of the scratch, scratch, scratch of the nib on paper. The sound can be surprisingly loud, too :-)
The Gillott #303 is very nice - very flexy. The Hunt #100 is just fabulous for flex!

Scratchy, but that's just how some dip nibs write.

Such fun to use this nib!

This being Friday...

an apropos quote (makes me laugh!) and some of my calligraphy practice:

Written with an inexpensive Sheaffer calligraphy fountain pen, M nib, Sheaffer blue ink.

Three little words...

that I like to keep in mind:

Noodler's Apache Sunset ink surrounded by black.