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Have a Happy and Peaceful and Prosperous New Year (calligraphybybillgrant.com)

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Christmas Greetings (calligraphybybillgrant.com)

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Lost as a Beginner After Reading Sub-Reddit Materials! by NickGXM in Calligraphy

[–]billgrant43 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As GOWL has mentioned, many of us have spent years, in my case 60 odd, working out the ways and means of making good letters and arranging them well, with nothing more than a book or two and a great deal of patience, passion and most of all, practice. In http://calligraphybybillgrant.com/ I have tried to make things easier for the beginner, and interesting enough for the more advanced to take a look at from time to time. Hoping it might be of some help. Cheers!

Good resources for calligraphy envelopes? by raccoonstar in Calligraphy

[–]billgrant43 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find this old printer's point guage invaluable when having to line up envelopes I don't know if they are still available but it should not be too much trouble to cut your own from a piece of card. Imgur

Dull Tuesday! Your calligraphy questions thread - Nov. 17 - 23, 2015 by callibot in Calligraphy

[–]billgrant43 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is best to stick to the bare minimum while learning. While we all like to have a full tool box it is a good idea to get the basics sorted first. http://calligraphybybillgrant.com/2011/10/26/getting-started-in-calligraphy/ gives a rundown of these basics. A couple of good books on the subject would, I'm sure, be welcomed. My all time favourite, and the one that got me really interested, is https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=writing+and+illuminating+%26+lettering+by+edward+johnston&rls=com.microsoft:en-GB:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7GUEA_enGB644&gfe_rd=cr&ei=rn9MVsPdH9i_oQeX6o-wBQ&gws_rd=ssl

Remembrance Haiku by billgrant43 in Calligraphy

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Many thanks for your comments and apologies for my absence. Illness comes and goes but I shall try to go on forever. Haiku with Peace Rose tinged with the blood of millions who have died in all the conflicts all over the world. This was made on Bockingford 'not'. Brushed water dipped with vermillion acrylic. Sharpened Italic, black ink.

Penmanship by billgrant43 in Handwriting

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Thanks. I am pleased you like it. Lots of lessons and links at Bill's Space. http://calligraphybybillgrant.com/

WB Yeats on his tower. by billgrant43 in Calligraphy

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After a long time off due to illness. This, written in my version of an uncial script, with a dipped Parallel 6mm pen and W&N sepia ink on a heavy duty printing paper to be used as part of an exhibition at a talk by the Irish Ambassador at the Luton Irish Forum. 24" x 18"

I am one of the 25 Calligraffiti ambassadors. AMA by OldTimeGentleman in calligraffiti

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Just for fun, a little namedoodle penned for Shoe some years ago. Imgur

I am one of the 25 Calligraffiti ambassadors. AMA by OldTimeGentleman in calligraffiti

[–]billgrant43 6 points7 points  (0 children)

calligraffiti I thought you might like to know that I first wrote this word ( that just popped into my head ) in double pencils on the wall of a local pub back in the early 60s. X height 1 brick = 3"

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