Saturday I went to my monthly meeting of
The Northumbrian Scribes at Bede's World. Chairman Mike got us off to a good start with some important announcements.
Then workshop leader Angela Dalleywater set about teaching us all about 'Pressure and Release', a dark art that is known to few but thankfully known very well to Angela. In no time at all she was demonstrating magic techniques for us to watch, learn and inwardly digest.
Tom is an expert calligrapher, and mastered this pressure and release stuff in pretty short order. Slabs, downstrokes, stems and manipulation in all manner of styles were rattled off.
Likewise Susan showed her usual wonderful flourishes and skill at this difficult task. See her letters, how finely drawn... see her hand, how well relaxed... see her fingers, how smudged with ink!
Saturday I went to my monthly meeting of The Northumbrian Scribes at Bede's World. Chairman Mike got us off to a good start with some important announcements.
Then workshop leader Angela Dalleywater set about teaching us all about 'Pressure and Release', a dark art that is known to few but thankfully known very well to Angela. In no time at all she was demonstrating magic techniques for us to watch, learn and inwardly digest.
Tom is an expert calligrapher, and mastered this pressure and release stuff in pretty short order. Slabs, downstrokes, stems and manipulation in all manner of styles were rattled off.
Likewise Susan showed her usual wonderful flourishes and skill at this difficult task. See her letters, how finely drawn... see her hand, how well relaxed... see her fingers, how smudged with ink!
It's a good feeling to connect with pens, ink and paper. Together it all makes a great sound as well!
ReplyDeleteTrue Sid... thoroughly comparable to the sound of leather on willow!
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