The pen just skates across the surface like a bucking bronco on wet ice and the writer's job is to control it the best they can. But if you really want a sensual experience with vellum and fountain pens, there's some vellum I bought at a local paper store a couple of years ago - it's far, far better than any drafting vellum I've ever written on. I found them in a recent move of my office to another room and found that they're reasonably good to write on with fountain pens (they are isometric paper and both Dietzgen and Clearprint brands). I have a few tablets of drawing vellum that I bought in the 1970's (they get put in stacks of stuff and forgotten). The usual company drafting vellum was unremarkable. I did a lot of pencil drafting in the 70's and 80's (part of the job) and would occasionally write on vellum with a fountain pen. Realize there are a variety of vellums out there most are probably intended to be used with pencil for drafting work. Seriously, having experienced drafting vellum, writing on anything else now seems somehow impious. Return to wherever it was you were when you read this message, roll tucked neatly under you arm, comfortable in the knowledge that you too will soon know the sublime sensation of gliding your nib effortlessly across a glassy sea of calligraphic contentment. Tell them you expect to pay no more than sixteen dollars (give or take). Burst in and demand that they produce for you a five yard roll of eighteen pound drafting vellum. As such I recommend you immediately put down whatever it is you're doing at this very moment and proceed promptly and directly to the art store nearest you. Well SueEllen, I would feel terribly ashamed if it came to pass that, due to my description of a most thrilling writing experience, you were to end up living a life void of meaning for simple want of drafting vellum.
In this moment I feel that my life will have had no meaning if I never experience speed-skating on vellum with my pen. I'm so happy I discovered drafting vellum. The translucency of the paper opens up a range of creative avenues including frame mounting over a colored matte. There's no bleeding, no soak through nothing but sheets of awesome.īut what's more is it's pretty too. My God! It's like I'm machining the letters into a slab of steel with a laser beam! It's as if I'm writing on a fresh sheet of speed skating ice and my nib is the sharp blade of a skate.The letters look like they've been painted on with the finest and sharpest masking tape ever invented. Until finally I found my nirvana: drafting vellum. The pitfall I've noticed since beginning this hobby is the difficulty of finding quality paper compatible with traditional inks (like FP and India ink): It bleeds. While I'm most certainly a novice, my interest in calligraphy has been noticed by a few of my co-workers who now regularly, and shamelessly, leverage my new hobby for their own personal gain (entries in our naval officer record of service books look better all fancy schmancy). More recently I've invested in calligraphy as a hobby. At first I just wanted to have an excuse to improve my crummy scribble and figured spending upwards of $50 on a pen would motivate me to practice more it did. Over the last 6 months or so I have gradually gained an interest in fountain pens and writing techniques. Well as a few of you may have noticed, I'm new around here. I suppose this could just as easily have been posted in the Paraphernalia forum, but I'm mainly concerned with calligraphy here.
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