The Art of the Dip-Pen
For the first week of my calligraphy adventure, I absolutely did not follow my action plan. Instead of just learning the various strokes of calligraphy, I started learning a couple different fonts of the alphabet. My writing doesn't look absolutely terrible, but it's definitely not the best, yet. The "yet" right there is the key word in that sentence. Since my learning goal for this project is to be a little easier on myself, I'm trying to be positive with my work so far. I know that it will take a lot of time and practice to nail this art style, and I'm ready for the challenge.
One of the most difficult parts of learning calligraphy so far has been my pen. My mom's automatic ink pens were completely dry. So, I have been using a dip-pen. This pen works perfectly fine, but it can be absolutely frustrating. It runs out of ink almost every other letter that I write. Also, the ink gets everywhere if I'm not careful. So far, I've only forgotten to clean out the tray once. That one time made a big mess in my book. I guess you live and you learn. That taught me the importance of not being dumb and cleaning everything after it's been used. That seems to be the only way to avoid ink spill disasters.
My first attempts at calligraphy....
That's crazy, I do not know anything about calligraphy but it looks like you honestly are doing great. Throughout this blog you should definitely keep a positive mindset considering this was your first try. One question I have though is do the lines or zagged line have any certain meaning or were you just doing them for fun?
ReplyDeleteIn the textbook, it said that testing out how to hold the pen to create varying strokes and fonts would make it easier to catch on to the strokes for the letters. My zagged lines got a little messy though...
DeleteThat looks great! You are a lot more patient then I am. Do you think it is more difficult to do calligraphy because you are left handed, or do you think it would work out about the same if you were right handed?
ReplyDeleteOh boy, it is SO much harder to write calligraphy left handed! I'm trying to figure out how to make the letters look the same, but it's practically impossible because I'm at a different angle. I guess my lettering will just be unique.
DeleteI love your learning goal! you honestly are doing so much better than I would be doing, so be proud of yourself. I'm really glad that you are learning from mistakes and are still willing to try to overcome them.
ReplyDeleteI like your idea of keeping a positive mindset, I think that will be very beneficial to you and your progress! Would you consider getting an automatic pen or will you stick with the dip pen?
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