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Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy: Instructions and Over 150 Examples (Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography)
£8.50£10.40 (-18%)
The traditional ornamental art of “flourishing.” Complete instructions and examples help you create your own magnificent swirls, delicately shaded curves, harmoniously crisscrossing lines, from which birds, rabbits, deer, ribbons, and other objects gracefully emerge. Over 150 royalty-free illustrations may also be applied to a multitude of graphic art and design purposes. Preface. Instructions.
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| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc, New edition (28 Mar. 2003) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 80 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780486219578 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0486219578 |
| Dimensions | 20.32 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm |
by simon
Good book
by Amazon Customer
Really nice book.
Has a bit of exercises and step by step (14 pages of 75) for understand the basic movements: Basic lines, Quill pens, Parts of birds. The rest of the book it is full of examples.
Excellent for 3 pound..
by Automatic Slim
This book is probably the only printed reference available on the subject at an affordable price, and thus deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone with a passing interest. The examples date from the Golden Age of American penmanship, and masters like C P Zaner, Louis Madarasz, W E Dennis, Francis Courtney as well as Earl Lupfer himself are all represented amongst many more. Students of ornamental writing will find a few things to interest them, but the focus is squarely on flourishing, chiefly of quills and birds.
It has been remarked that the instructional section is brief, and this is true. It assumes at the very least the ability to prepare and use a dip pen with a fine flexible nib, and a background in writing Spencerian and ornamental scripts would be highly beneficial, if not absolutely essential. Really, Lupfer says all that needs saying: it should be obvious from a brief flick through of the plates that the most important things for anyone who wants to produce work like this are motivation, time and practice.
The flourishes are crisply reproduced, but the paper is of indifferent quality and the binding is flimsy. The pages will not easily lay flat. I would have preferred a more expensive production, but by keeping the costs down Dover have ensured a wide circulation, and that is all to the good.
Not everybody will see the point of 80 pages of flourishes, but as far as I’m concerned the book is well worth having for H S Blanchard’s hummingbirds alone.
by Gary Gould
A great book. Goes into detail regarding flourishes and even how you should be holding the pen. Plenty of examples to learn from though I think it will take me a while. Ordering and delivery went smoothly with the book arriving exactly when they said it would. Delighted.
by Amazon Customer
Excellent book to learn a new skill, easy to follow. Great value for money. .
by F. B. Mills
A joy from cover to cover. Yes, the art of bird flourishing accounts for most of its contents, and the many examples illustrated are from the era of when pointed nib calligraphy was at its zenith, and from the age of when people, from an early age, were taught how to write beautifully too: now a lost art.
by R.J.South
Nice and informative
by construction
Excellent service from supplier.
Useful book – a little old fashioned.