#ruling pen

Samah is a mother in Gaza with three very young children. She and her husband are trying to care for them under the constant threats of occupation and famine. The starvation in the Strip has reached unimaginable levels. Little to no aid is getting to the people, and going to aid centers often means risking being shot by occupation soldiers. Food from other places, when it can be found, is unbelievably expensive.

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How to Do Ruling Pen Calligraphy (Cola Pen Calligraphy) - Blogpost Check it out.

What is Ruling Pen Calligraphy? Ruling pen calligraphy in the scheme of things is a very new kind of calligraphy. So new in fact, that it doesn’t really have a standardized alphabet, but is often a brush calligraphy-like script characterized by it’s rough spraying and splattered strokes. While most calligraphy is centuries old, ruling pen calligraphy was first first written in the 1950s by…

So I decided to play with watercolor and ink today.

Dr Ph Martin’s + black ink in a modified parallel pen. Green for Yuri’s eyes, black for his clothes and a modified parallel pen just because it gives an odd mix of something broad edge but not quite.