Formal Uncials

Another half an hour to myself whilst the little one is napping, so I picked up my pilot pens and had a go at formal uncials. This was done with a 2.4mm nib, purple ink and a 4 nib-width x-height.

I used for my reference a section from Gillian Hazeldine's brilliant book Contemporary Calligraphy: how to use formal scripts today.

This is not a script I am at all used to working with, but there's so much you can do with it, with a little bit of creativity.

Where it all began

Having dabbled in Palaeography as part of my postgraduate studies in Music, I was really interested to see a link to this blog pop up on the Twitter feed at work, promoting Medieval and Renaissance handwriting tutorial apps for your phone (Mac or Android). It's more transcription, than history of  handwriting, but really interesting nonetheless!

This says it all really...

New toys!

I have just bought myself a set of 3 Pilot Parallel pens. They're great fun, and absolutely ideal for grabbing and playing around with in the few minutes when my daughter is quiet or napping and I don't have time to set myself up for a long writing session. These were done with the 2.4mm pen and a cartridge of the violet ink that came with the set.

As you can see, we've been celebrating Burns Night!