Calligraphy Flourishing Tips

Video Transcript

"In which case you're going to be working with much smaller little designs with the same idea. See what you can do with this. So let's say you have a letter, resolution. Then what I could do is I could like, fancy and fancy up around the letter. So this adds fanfare to the letter. The think about flourishing is, that if it isn't done well it can take away, visually take away from the piece. So there is a whole art to flourishing. But since I'm not spelling any words right now, I can talk while I'm demonstrating. Did you notice that? And this is silly, I'm sorry, to do this silly thing. But I just wanted to show you what can be done. Oh, you should see some of the illuminated manuscripts. I'll show you a little bit of them later. Anyway, there you go. Oh, wait, let me think about this. There's something else you can do. You can go like this. There's all kinds of things that can be done with this kind of a tool. See?"