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Brad,

really enjoy the photograph of the McGinley quote. What's the red ink?

 

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Airmail Wality 69eb, Kanwrite flex nib, with Chesterfield antique oxford ink.

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Thank you, Inky. Always more work to do with letter forms.

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Brad,

really enjoy the photograph of the McGinley quote.

 

 

fpn_1495413656__mcginley-mother-soul-hum

 

Airmail Wality 69eb, Kanwrite flex nib, with Chesterfield antique oxford ink.

Thanks Bob.

The ink is Diamine Ancient Copper in a Jinhao 599 M nib ground to a stub

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Brad

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David, it looks like you're on tap to provide the next weekly quote.

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David, it looks like you're on tap to provide the next weekly quote.

 

I'm working on it.

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QOTW

 

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from his self-interest.

 

Albert Einstein

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Hmm, tried too much here, especially for gone 2 a.m., but I had fun messing up the composition anyway...! :D

 

Good night!

 

Manuscript Dodecs with Manuscript sepia and red, Swan Calligraph and Waterman 32 with Pilot blue.

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Great quote, David, and a belated thank you for the beard compliment!

Inky, well-done pencil exercise!

 

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Paper: Levenger 3 X 5 " note card

Pen: Scheaffer Diamond nib, B into 1.1 mm italic

Ink: Sailor Jentle Rikyu-cha

 

It's good to be home from Europe. Last trip in the forseeable future. So maybe can get the quote of the week in on time.

 

Enjoy,

Yours,
Randal

From a person's actions, we may infer attitudes, beliefs, --- and values. We do not know these characteristics outright. The human dichotomies of trust and distrust, honor and duplicity, love and hate --- all depend on internal states we cannot directly experience. Isn't this what adds zest to our life?

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Einstein quotation in Foundational scrpt.

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Ooh! Can I play? I've started at the beginning and am working my way through. Mostly everything has been basic Italic. You can see my improvement, I think, in both letterforms and composition, as I start getting my fingers under me again, as it were. I'll do this in a few weeks per post, so as not to overwhelm with too many images in one post, or too many posts all in a row. Right now I've gone through Week 10, with the Lincoln quote.

 

Week 1: Dip pen, Brause nib 2mm, Walnut ink

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk6.jpg

 

Week 2: Ditto for quote, Brause 1.5mm for attribution

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk2.jpg

 

Week 2a: Ditto nibs as before, but ink is R&K Alt Goldgrun

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk2a.jpg

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Continued:

 

Week 3: Brause 1.5mm, R&K Alt Goldgrunhttp://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk3.jpg

 

Week 4: William Mitchell dip nib #0, walnut ink

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk4.jpg

 

Week 5: William Mitchell #2, Walnut ink (By now I've decided that the Brause nibs simply don't work for Italic: the oblique cut simply makes it too hard to maintain the appropriate steepness of the nib angle. Also, I prefer the more flexible William Mitchell nibs.)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk5.jpg

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Continued:

 

Week 6: William Mitchell #2, Walnut ink

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk6.jpg

 

Week 7: William Mitchell #3, Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk7.jpg

 

Week 8: William Mitchell #3, R&K Alt Goldgrun + Noodlers BSiAR

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk8.jpg

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Week 9: William Mitchell #0, Walnut ink

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk9.jpg

 

Week 10: (This one came out very well, I thought) WM #3, Walnut Ink (Attribution: Brause 3/4mm)

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f320/philena_lj/wk10.jpg

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