A quick bombardment of photos of playing around and working from modern calligraphy by Lucy Edmonds. I attached my pen nib to a pencil and used purple ink. It’s interesting experimenting with how much ink the nib will hold and use before it needs refilling.
Needless to say I’m happier with some of what I’ve done, but I hope that playing around might result in prettier drawings in the future!
Julia's Creative Year 
Excellent!
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Thank you 😊it was fun!
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Has anyone reminded you how talented you are?????
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Lol… Nope! Thank you 😊. That was at the end of such a bad day in work, so it was nice to be able to try out out with no pressure
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I used to do a bit of calligraphy (many, many years ago). I’ve been wanting to get back to it. You’re doing a great job with it!
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Thank you so much. What sort of pen nibs did you use?
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It was when I was a teenager, and at that time, I had received a calligraphy set as a gift. It came with a pen which held an ink cartridge and had 5 or 6 nibs which screwed into the barrel. There were several different nibs ranging in width. I don’t exactly recall what they were like now…I’m sure I still have the set somewhere, unless it got lost in all my moves over the years.
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Oh that’s cool. Hope you find them and can get back into it 😊
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Excellent control of your nib and ink flow Julia! I love the bird, of course.
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Thank you so much 😊. I love the idea of the bird but need to work on its shape à bit. I was really just playing about with different pen strokes, which made it hard to make the bird look how I wanted
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I struggle with that myself, but I also think it looks great. Maybe you could use that first bird to make a card or mixed media project. I really do think it’s lovely.
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I don’t really have the first idea how to go about a mixed media project… Any tips?
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Let me think about it and figure out how to explain it in a post and I will get back to you.
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Awesome, thank you xx
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I adore the look of calligraphy. You’ve made a great start by the looks of it.
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Thank you so much 😊. I’m finding it surprisingly relaxing
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