A friend of mine asked if I could write a poem in calligraphy for her. There is this little poem that the women in her family like to recite, and she thought it would be a fun gift to give to her grandmother. Since I didn't have any calligraphy projects coming up I was happy to help her out. And it was kind of fun to imagine that I was being an artist being commissioned for a piece of work by some fancy benefactor, ha.
My concern about the poem was that it was the longest piece of text I have written, meaning if I wrote the whole thing beautifully but messed up on the last sentence, then I'd have to do the whole thing over again. Since I didn't want to have to write it over and over, I made sure I planned and practiced exactly how I wanted to format the thing before starting on real calligraphy paper. In the end I only had to go through 3 pieces of paper, and I thankfully kept messing up near the beginning so it's not like I had to scrap out a whole one. I think the final version ended ended up looking pretty good! I hope my friend's grandmother likes it!
Paper: Borden & Riley Boris Layout Paper
Ink: Higgins Eternal
Nib: Gillott 404