Inks, Handwriting

A lovely box arrived from Pendemonium today! It contained four bottles of ink - J. Herbin’s 'Vert Olive', Private Reserve's 'Blue Suede', 'Fiesta Red' and 'Copper Burst'. I'm loving Vert Olive - it looks excellent coming out of the White Honey M400!

I had also bought a copy of Write Now, as I am currently undertaking Handwriting Improvement with Kate Gladstone.

I must say I am impressed with the progress. My handwriting was never really bad, just a little slow, and when I sped it up, it all went to hell in a hand basket. I did have some bad habits too - h, b and m/n were poorly formed, but I'm improving. Write Now is really helpful also - I was struggling to form a f, j and k that I liked, and sure enough the book had some perfect italic examples for me.

I'm very happy I made the decision to improve my writing with Kate.

Handwriting Improvement

The last couple of weeks at work have seen me spending a lot of time writing notes and documents. As a result, I have a sore hand. Whilst I was doing the vast amounts of writing, I was a little frustrated because I wanted to write faster, but this just resulted in ugly, chicken scratchings all over the page.

So, today I Googled 'handwriting improvement' and found some useful articles. The best article I have read so far is at PaperPenalia - Tips for improving your handwriting.

I've found I held my pen a little differently to the norm, and as a result I 'draw' my writing - it doesn't just stylize naturally, it's slow, and it causes muscle fatigue.

Now my right hand is extra sore as I have been doing writing exercises to retrain my hand and arm - but if this results in faster, more legible handwriting, I'll suffer happily.