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That buckeye burl on the grip of this holder looks a bit like the sky over Chicago this afternoon. I love the natural gray tones and grain patterns in buckeye. Such a cool wood 😎🖤🤍

Lignum vitae... have I mentioned before that I love this stuff? It’s a pain to carve, but responds wonderfully to sanding and polishing, and it smells amaaaazing. I carved one of my personal use holders from LV and I still occasionally find myself smashing it up against my nose like a scratch-n-sniff sticker when I’m distracted 🙊😂

I’ve been neglectful lately in sharing photos of my holders 😬. This pretty baby just travelled all the way to Russia. A little delayed due to some overzealous US customs agents in Chicago, but safely with its new owner now. And it’s been given a special title, Lumen Sage! It’s carved from American holly, custom fit with a fairly traditional grip for American penmanship. I do love Holly. So nice to work with and so so pretty with that super fine grain when it’s all polished up and done 💖.

Hey everybody! I know it's a little early for #fridayintroductions, but I did a little interview with @voyagechicago that got published today. Check it out on their website if you're curious to know more about me and how I ended up where I am 😊 - http://voyagechicago.com/interview/meet-lindsey-hook-lindsey-hook-calligraphy-pen-arts-rogers-park/

This custom glitter holder also went out this week ✨✨✨ This is "purple pig party" glitter over a lovely piece of African Blackwood. Love the sparkle 😊💜

Just dropped this lovely holder carved from golden amboyna burl off for shipping 📦. I’ve got another of these in the works as a general fit holder that I’ll have available at the Chicago Pen Show in a couple weeks. The rest of the stock I have I’m concerned won’t hold up well for tail sections, so I’m going use it for grip sections in two part holders. Sooo pretty 😍🌟

The letter O for the @handletteredABCs 2018 challenge. He's got a little lion tail 😊. If you want to see recordings for each letter of this 'Italian' styled variant of the classic Engrosser's Roundhand script, I'll be posting them all to a playlist on my YouTube too: https://goo.gl/NEmRfQ. • • I'm doing the whole alphabet using one of my hand carved ergonomic nib holders with a leonardt principal ef nib in Higgins eternal ink on lined Rhodia paper. • • Italian is a vague term in this context that was often used by practitioners to denote a script intended to be paired with a more commonly styled one. It rarely indicates one way or the other whether the origin of the script is/was actually Italy. As a consequence there are numerous historical scripts labeled as 'Italian' that seem to have little visual relationship to each other. I went pretty heavy on the shades for fun :D If I were using this script in a piece I'd probably lighten it up a bit unless it was going to be for a big, dramatic title of some sort. • • Music playing while I was writing is from Missing Vwls. • • #HooksHolders #HooksHandLetteredABCs #HooksHandLetteredABCS_2018 #calligraphy #pointedpen #roundhand #engrossersscript #copperplate #Italianscript #Higginseternal #LeonardtPrincipal #Rhodia #MissingVwls #calligraphyvideo #calligraphyinstruction #calligraphyalphabet #lettering #handlettering #typography #letterarchive #handletteredABCs #handletteredABCs_2018 #ABCs_o #letterarchive_o

I've got this custom dyed and burled maple holder listed in my Etsy shop now (available with buyers choice for the flange). I really love how the colors came out here with the pink belly and the blue and green tail 💖💙💚 You can see the video of it on my YouTube https://youtu.be/hicTUWWFHQY