Following is a reposting of my November 13, 2009 Flourish Friday. I love ornamental Fraktur capitals, and my recent workshop with Reggie Ezell has given me even more ideas...
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For this week's Flourish Friday, I tried my hand at Ornamental Fraktur. Believe it or not, this is the letter A.
I used some blue ink that was packaged with the pen my husband bought me in Venice. (You can see that glass pen in an earlier post here.)
I used my 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen. I filled a spent cartridge with a Monojet syringe. I like the Parallel Pen for practice. It is easier for me to get consistent thins from this tool than it is from a broad edge dip pen.
My reference was chapter 6 from Bill Hildebrandt's wonderful book "Calligraphic Flourishing." Some Flourish Friday I'll have to show you the Whopperplate I bought from Bill! :-)
I hope you're all Flourishing out there! Have a great weekend!!
I would love that book, if it didn't cost my left arm
ReplyDeleteIf you belong to a local calligraphy guild, then chances are they have it in their library. Also, older guild members may be willing to sell their copy for a reasonable price if they no longer use it. Otherwise, try to borrow it from your local, public library via Interlibrary Loan. Hope this helps!
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