American Ornate Scripts
12 week Class
Download Real Pen Work’s exemplar HERE
Homework:
Practice warm-up exercises: finger movement, slide and whole arm movement
Practice following letter combination at 5mm letter x-height using straight pen holder, notice that spacing between two letters should relatively wide, around 1.3 to 1.5 times wider than “u”.
Then write them again at smaller size, 2.5 - 3mm x-height.
minimum
monomono
scissors
rominuvis
woccorrsminum
russimuvx
scusimn
soccer
winners
emmiruscosim
norminus
ocusismn
wumeccesus
surrecismninuscus
recniusceminus
Homework: We are doing two pieces this week
Fold A4 or US paper in half, vertically then write down following list at 2.5 or 3mm x-height. Spacing between 2 lines is 12mm
Write a paragraph using horizontal composition of A4 or bigger paper, x-height 3mm and line spacing is also 12mm.
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If the text
Homework: I am giving a very long list here for this week and later practice, no need to complete 100 names/sentences, please do as much as you can, at least 20 for this week homework.
Write following sentence list at 3mm lowercase x-height and 9mm capital x-height: DOWNLOAD
Practice capital combination with following names:
Benita Pineda
Theresa Mccarty
Maritza Ochoa
Madeline Skinner
Constance Blackburn
Barton Blair
Harriett Kline
Broderick Carey
Maryanne Arellano
Janice Yates
Pat Garza
Tamika Walters
Forrest Solomon
Charlene Camacho
Lindsey Ortega
Neva Lara
Elva Orr
Everett Reid
Glenna Richards
Erwin Aguirre
Ariel Riggs
Rhoda Henderson
Benton Sellers
Joy Durham
Rashad Carlson
Joyce Abbott
Hilda Santos
Kieth Graves
Casey Hayden
Guy Powers
Alice Spence
Geoffrey Kelly
Lily Burgess
Kelley Mcgee
Joe Lynch
Rory West
Jimmy Vazquez
Stephen Stewart
Gilda Madden
Janette Lutz
Rosario King
Imogene Atkinson
Harland Bass
Harlan Andrade
Marcus Larson
Bud Le
Tyler Huff
Dick Rhodes
Gaylord Clayton
Albert Ashley
Trey Bryant
Leanna Rocha
Mauricio Bautista
Hilario Mays
Maynard Hutchinson
Luciano Macias
Marsha Vincent
Stacy Zamora
Leo Roman
Joan Douglas
Rebecca Knight
Conrad Perez
Katheryn Kaufman
Holly Mccullough
Anne Ibarra
Suzanne Dillon
Terrance Huber
Julian Dunlap
Teodoro Donaldson
Wally Love
Haywood Perkins
Lynn Melendez
Kim Wall
Errol Stewart
Jodie Flores
Clarice Cunningham
Effie Leon
Donna Schneider
Deana Austin
Alejandra Hayden
Rodger Tucker
Corinne Fischer
Della Glover
Rupert Odonnell
Mollie Booth
Britt Marquez
Warner Lyons
Emmanuel Costa
Sandy Cortez
Angel Fritz
Nathanael Santana
Kent Swanson
Cecile Chung
Karla Wang
Eloise Walsh
Genevieve Porter
Vincent Bradford
Gerardo May
Vivian Orozco
Harrison Johnston
Homework 1: Continue to practice sentences but now using oblique pen holder and more flourished form of the "new" Spencerian or Ornamental Penmanship. Remember to flow the lead-in and lead-out strokes longer
Homework 2: Copy this sample page (in lowercase only), line 12mm or 0.5 inch
Homework 1: Practice warm-ups and letters following this instruction, choose the letters that we learned only DOWNLOAD
Homework 2: Practice following this sample, choose one of two, or do both on 12mm (1/2 inch) lined paper
(1) Quote by Dalai Lama, Dao Huy Hoang. Notice that I shaped the design in rather rectangle form, and flourishing is optional
(2) C. Zaner. Please leave the title, only copy the main body text.
Homework: practice following text in vertical composition and 12-15mm lined paper, use simple form of capital at the beginning of each line, apply some flourishes if needed.
Elven Hymn to Elbereth
Snow-white! Snow-white! O Lady clear!
O Queen beyond the Western Seas!
O light to us that wander here
Amid the world of woven trees!
Gilthoniel! O Elbereth!
Clear are thy eyes and bright thy breath!
Snow-white! Snow-white! We sing to thee
In a far land beyond the sea.
O Stars that in the Sunless Year
With shining hand by her were sown,
In windy fields now bright and clear
We see your silver blossom blown!
O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
We still remember, we who dwell
In this far land beneath the trees,
Thy starlight on the Western Seas.
Tinfang Warble
O the hoot! O the hoot!
How he trillups on his flute!
O the hoot of Tinfang Warble!
Dancing all alone,
Hopping on a stone,
Flitting like a fawn,
In the twilight on the lawn,
And his name is Tinfang Warble!
The first star has shown
And its lamp is blown
to a flame of flickering blue.
He pipes not to me,
He pipes not to thee,
He whistles for none of you.
His music is his own,
The tunes of Tinfang Warble!
J.R.R. Tolkien
See my sample below
Download scan HERE
Homework 1:
Write following text with white ink or color or Finetec on black paper, 12-15mm line (if you don’t have, please practice on white paper). This is a long quote with a lot of capitals in middle, be simple to choose the right form of capital. WARM UP carefully before final writing. You can write on multiple A4/US paper or on 1 A3 paper. Make sketches if you’re not sure with how to pen flourishes.
Homework 2:
Make a pattern of shading capital stems as following sample
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Some sample works by C.P. Doner. Notice how he did lead-out strokes long and beautiful.
Homework: Practice writing pages and names following samples DOWNLOAD HERE
Finish at least 3 pages
(1) Learn how to see masters distributed thickness and hairline
(2) Analyze the varied movements and forms
(3) Practice using oblique pen holder on 12-15mm lined paper
Homework: write following text
Use shaded Spencerian for the CAPITALISED WORDS, 5mm x-height
12-15mm lined paper
White ink or color gouache on black if you have materials
Apply ending flourishing
SHE SIGHTS A BIRD - SHE CHUCKLES
poem by EMILY DICKINSON (about 1862)
She sights a BIRD - she chuckles -
She flattens - then she crawls -
She runs without the look of feet -
Her eyes increase to BALLS -
Her JAWS stir - twitching - hungry -
Her TEETH can hardly stand -
She leaps, but ROBIN leaped the first -
Ah, PUSSY, of the SAND,
The HOPES so juicy ripening -
You almost bathed your TONGUE -
When BLISS disclosed a hundred TOES -
And fled with every one
