so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing
current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual
any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner
more #calligraphy practice (previously: https://status.nevillepark.ca/@nev/statuses/01K7A7ZWYF7GFK94BCZGMCR04R)
i had a bit of an ink accident
The full page of titles of various Poe works in slightly sloppy roundhand. Big drops of ink are splattered across the top half of the page. I also doodled a raven clutching a quill pen in its claws and saying "Nevermore!"
Close-up of titles of Edgar Allan Poe works written on graph paper in very imperfect English roundhand.
The whole page, from above and sadly partly out of focus, but you get the idea. The poem:
"I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold"
The date is mistakenly given as 1938 (it was written in 1934 but a collection it was in was copyrighted 1938).
Close-up of the the first stanza of the William Carlos Williams poem "This Is Just to Say" ("I have eaten/the plums/that were in/the icebox"), written in English roundhand on a sheet of graph paper torn from a spiral notebook.