{"id":1425,"date":"2015-10-10T22:18:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T05:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2015-10-10T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T05:20:04","slug":"pointed-pen-practice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/pointed-pen-practice-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pointed pen practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1426\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1426\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/pointed-pen-practice-2\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,833\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Pointed pen practice: Darcy&amp;#8217;s letter to Elizabeth &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice-1024x711.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-1426 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/2015-10-10-pointed-pen-practice.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pointed pen practice: Jane Austen&#8217;s letter from Darcy to Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. Principality nib at x-height=2.8mm. Moon Palace sumi ink on Strathmore recycling drawing paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s work included the final lettering for a commission: a long text in pointed pen script. I haven&#8217;t done much pointed pen lately, so I did this piece as a warm-up. It&#8217;s the beginning of the famous letter from Darcy to Elizabeth in <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>. Fun stuff. Good thing this wasn&#8217;t the real commission: there is a hando (rather than a typo) at the end of the very first line. The pen nib was new but awful. I had to change it out before starting on the actual commissioned piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s work included the final lettering for a commission: a long text in pointed pen script. I haven&#8217;t done much pointed pen lately, so I did this piece as a warm-up. It&#8217;s the beginning of the famous letter from Darcy to Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice. Fun stuff. Good thing this wasn&#8217;t the real commission: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/pointed-pen-practice-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pointed pen practice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,59],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lettering","tag-2015-daily-lettering","tag-pointed-pen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-mZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}