30 day challenge: day 1 (and an offer)

[afuna]

Spent today at a calligraphy workshop playing with pointed pens. Ummm may have come home with a TWSBI fountain pen (extra fine point and 1.5 broad) and ink.

Which made me realize that I must stop buying ink this is ridiculous!

...or I could just try to use them all up :)

Starting a 30-day challenge today. Will be boring drills at first, getting my hand back in. Both pointed pen and broad nib calligraphy count (though they are different disciplines. Shhhh)

Aim is to have at least one page a day. May be practice, may be a quote or stanza etc. I'll start with the alphabet to get my hand back in then move on to actual words.


I'd love to be able to write down your favorite quote, poem etc, so if you'd like me to try please comment with the exact words and I'll try to figure something out!

Here is day 1, done with a TWSBI mini 1.5 mm broad nib in Ruby (Pelikan Edelstein Ink collection)



Also, bonus, made this bookmark during the workshop:



Choice of words and arrangement are mine. Smudges also all mine. (You should've seen my hands ;-))

Comments

[watersword]

Pirates could happen to anyone. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead

A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it. — Ian McEwan, Atonement

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. — Virginia Woolf

[synecdochic]

Pretty!

[synecdochic]

also, i have loads of quotes i like, but right now, my favorite quote is this poem snippet, which will be used as an epigraph for a story i do not know the actual story of yet:

Build me a city and call it Jerusalem. Build me another and call it
                                                                        Jerusalem.
              We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not
what we sought, so do it over, give me another version.
		-- Richard Siken

[swaldman]

Ooh, I like that too!

[swaldman]

I can offer a couple of Pink Floyd quotes, if you fancy something a little longer:

"While you are wasting your time on your enemies
Engulfed in a fever of spite
Beyond your tunnel vision reality fades
Like shadows into the night"

or

"And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart 'gainst some mad bugger's wall. "

EDIT: Hmm, it seems that I am a source of depressing and despairing quotes today. Oops!

[amianym]

oooh, I wanted to ask for something but had no ideas, but song lyrics! that's a good one.

You and I make a lovely shape
Two circles cubed draw a number 8
It's a perfect day to dress the kids in snowsuits
While we bake bread through the monsoon
Cause I'm in love with you
And all that we've been through
We're finally coming to
Two by two by two

From Cloud Cult's 2x2x2. With a pointed pen, if you would be so kind!

[swaldman]

Another one for you, in case you fancy it better,

"It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."
(from Deus Ex : Human Revolution)