Major Project Week 3 - Continuing with Sans Serif

            This week went a bit better than last week, if I do say so myself. It did start with a setback. Last week, I said I was going to try to use the pens with ink that came with my calligraphy set. I did try. However, I did not succeed. Here's the way the pens come in the kit.

 To use the pen, you had into insert an ink cartridge into the barrel of the pun and puncture it so ink could flow. I did puncture it, then shook it to try and get the ink flowing. I spent about ten minutes trying to use the pen. It worked a little bit, but I just could not get a steady flow out of it. I could barely get lines out of it most of the time. I marked up an entire piece of paper trying to get the pen to work before I gave up and used another Sharpie calligraphy marker. 

            I did some practice strokes again, and practiced my alphabet.

            I then just started writing. First, since Friends was playing on Netflix, I wrote out all of their names just as some word practice.

            Second, I recently put up my Christmas decorations (I don’t even care that it’s only November 6^th, the holiday season starts right after Halloween for me), I just did a bunch of Christmas words.

Then, I started writing sentences. I wrote “Bernadette Grady’s Educational Technology Major Project.”

            Then finally, I wrote “For my major project, I am teaching myself how to write in Calligraphy. This is Sans Serif Script.”

            I think that since last week, I have improved a lot. My flow is better, and my letters aren’t as disjointed. There’s definitely still room for improvement, Though these are repeat pictures, here's a collage I made on pixlr of last week and this week's progress, and I think my progress is evident.

Sometimes I feel like my writing is like that of a child who is still learning how to write properly. I guess I kind of am, since writing in calligraphy is a whole new style of writing with certain ways to hold the pen/marker. With letters that aren't the right size and are just shaped wrong, it's a little discouraging. But I am showing some definite progress since I started, and I think I’m getting there. Next week, I hope to improve my flow a little bit, and keep consistent with my sizing. If all goes well, I intend to move onto the next script in my beginner's book, Roman.