Spencerian G

The letter G is demanding!



The exemplar is beautiful, almost perfectly proportional. And to imagine this was all handwritten – the control, hand-eye-mind coordination required, and the quality of the tools to pull this off nearly 80 years ago is remarkable!



More Ovals

I spent a lot of time today on getting the ovals to resemble ovals – without resting the elbows on the desk. Years of habit obviously kick in immediately unless I’m conscious about the attempt to this does feel like hard work.



Spencerian B

I wrote these and didn’t get round to post them here last night. So here goes.



Breaking up things into smaller things helps with alphabets that require subtle changes in pressure. The smaller-case letters were easier, the capitals, not quite as correct as I wanted.