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Homework week 1: practice word list below, writing English Roundhand lowercases with straight holder
x-height: 10mm, ascender/descender: 15mm

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  • annihilationistic

  • templar

  • interpenetrating

  • preelectrical

  • unrevelling

  • caninity

  • clearchus

  • sinicizing

  • deflower

  • pseudoapoplectical

  • westernism

  • aloneness

  • recondensation

  • canaster

  • medullization

  • cabaeus

  • nonavoidable

  • stumpiness

  • frontality

  • formularization

  • betrothal

  • academically

  • lustreless

  • afterclap

  • fallalishly

  • unstreamed

  • angularly

  • catastrophically

  • botcher

  • compurgatory

  • interfused

  • penetralian

  • fantasy

  • harmonite

  • strudel

  • outplotted

  • cholesterolemia

  • ignitibility

  • unheeled

  • displeasingly

  • williamson

  • odometry

  • larkiness

  • repatriate

  • hydrarch

  • atomicity

  • defensibly

  • inthrallment

  • beginner

  • subabbot

Home work: fill in the blank lines of R, B, D, L, S with variations like the P line

Opntional Word list for practicing with basic flourishing strokes:
(You don’t need to finish all of them)

Illumination Ingres Irregularly Ichthyoacanthotoxism Indiannapolis

Julianno Juxtapositive Jacky Jong Jade Jagger Juglandaceous

Harmoniously Haematogenesis Healthy Hamburgers H. Huntington Helen Hue

Katherina Kimmy Karlie Kindergarten Kazakhstan Kakorrhaphiophobia

Technography Theophilanthropism Transcendentalism Tympaniform Tanya

Falsiloquence Fascination Flammiferous Flowers Floccinaucinihilipilification

Palaeoanthropology Patricia Peter Parker Perspectography Polyphiloprogenitive

Romeo & Juliet Rhinogenous Risorgimento Richard Harrison Revalescent

Barcelona Ballistocardiograph Bibliogenesis Bengara Brachycatalectic

Draculas Dactyliomancy Deflocculate Diana Ross Deorsumversion

Uzabekistan Ubiquitarianism Ultramarine Universal Penman Uropygium

Youngthful Yarborough Yogibogeybox Yoshio Yamamoto Yobbery

Home work this week is to complete some words with simple flourishing form. Do sketch the oval and divide it by four to find the balance shading rule. Use 7-8mm x-height, dark ink on white paper.

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Quote for practice letter ocean

Quote for practice letter ocean

Home work: letter ocean

  • A3-A2 paper size (preferred white ink on black paper, but dark ink on white paper is also fine)

  • 6-7mm x-height, 25mm space between lines

  • Margins: at least 25mm

  • Do apply flourishing!

Sample of letter ocean: DOWNLOAD

Flourishing samples: DOWNLOAD

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It’s a collection of my finest writing on Tomoe River paper, with Watercolor and dip ink. I hope that would help you to look through the forms with ease. This PDF is printable on A4 paper size. Two pages of this handbook were featured in the Speedball Textbook 25th Edition.

Home work this week will be about making an oval composition with Italian Roundhand. Please see my sample work and text below.

The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided. Sometimes the painting was transportable. But it could never be seen in two places at the same time. When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image. As a result its meaning changes. Or, more exactly, its meaning multiplies and fragments into many meanings.

John Berger, “Ways of Seeing”

Writing with Italian Hand means that we need to surround letters with air, or widen the space substantially, and maintain reasonable balance/contrast of thick & thin.

Use 6mm x-height only, 15mm for ascender and descender, line spacing is 25mm.

Compose the main text into an oval shape; you can choose to fill it up with flourishes or keep open white space.

Author’s name and book tittle should be written in English Roundhand, also in a shape, rectangle or oval, your choice.