Fun with Calligraphy!

I'm about to finish my first calligraphy course and it has been a whirlwind. The style taught was italic, the most popular yet hardest style in calligraphy. Now I can understand why! It's like learning how to write again with plenty of rules to make your head spin. However, after you catch on and you start to see the progress it's a great feeling!

With our first "artwork" piece and not being able to use gird paper, it was a challenge. A four hour process that included practicing, writing, lining, paste stubbing, lining again, and ultimately the final writing! Took me two tries, but here's the final piece. Not too shabby for my first class and piece with no grid paper....

Cheers to my next course in a couple of weeks! Hopefully we get to learn Copperplate. The pretty style!