Calligraphy Flourish Friday - Poem for Anniversary

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 Two years ago I did a piece similar to this as an anniversary gift for my husband. (You can see it by clicking here.)  A client recently commissioned me to do one for her husband, and as most of you know, I love working white on black!

©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC

In the past, I have used a soapstone pencil to line black stock, but I used this Fons & Porter Mechanical Fabric Pencil to line this piece. I purchased the pencil from Paper & Ink Arts while at the IAMPETH convention.  The last day of the convention, Paper & Ink reduced the prices on everything in the store.....

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 ....so I also purchased this rolling ruler (Parallel Glider) that I had seen Jake Weidmann use during the IAMPETH round robin.

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It made lining the paper a breeze.  The tip of the fabric pencil fits into the holes of the rolling ruler and made marking the vertical, side margins easy as well.

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All lined and ready to go!

©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC

I used Dr. Martin's Pen White and a Zebra G nib.  Once finished and dry, the pencils lines were erased with a Factis Black eraser.  The client loved the piece and so did her husband! :)

©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC

On another note-

Buffy, with Kuretake UK, conducted an interview with me for the Kuretake ZIG blog. If you're interested, I'd be delighted if you read it by clicking here.

Thank you for your visit to A Place to Flourish!

I appreciate your support.  Have a great weekend!!

xo

Jane

Calligraphy Flourish Friday -Psalm 56:9

Hello friends.

Here is a quick piece done in Photoshop. (Wow! Did I just say that?) I borrowed parts from a couple of existing pieces.  This verse is a strong and comforting reminder to me.

We packed and moved Rachel and Matt up to Purdue yesterday. The summer went by so fast. Matt is there to stay. Rach came back, but only for the weekend. Other areas of my life seem disorganized. My studio is in chaos right now with several different things going on. I like things neat and orderly in my life, so I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed.

....but this I know

God is for me.

Maybe you're feeling overwhelmed today too.

I hope you find comfort in this verse.

Enjoy your weekend!

((Hugs))

Jane

Ornamental Fraktur - Flourish Friday

While waiting for some client work to dry, I decided to give Ornamental Fraktur another go.  Two and a half hours later the client's piece was ready for the next stage, but I was still playing! 

iFriend Deborah asked me if Dr. Martin's Bleedproof White works in a parallel pen.  I hadn't tried it before, but I didn't see why it wouldn't work.  So today's Flourish Friday shows ProWhite (which is similar to Dr. Martin's) loaded into the barrel of a 1.5mm Pilot Parallel Pen (PPP).  I bought a jar of ProWhite after hearing several calligraphers say they like it better than Dr. Martin's. I tried it, but just couldn't get the consistency right. I much prefer Dr. Martin's.  I hate to waste anything, so I'm happy that the ProWhite works well in the PPP.  I did keep a little jar of water nearby to dip the tip of the PPP in every once in awhile to keep the ProWhite flowing.

To read my post about loading the barrel of a PPP, click here.

To see more Ornamental Fraktur play click here and here.

Flourish Friday - September 25

I love doing white calligraphy on black paper! I hope everyone has a great weekend, and I will try to do a real post next week. :-)