Practicing brush script

Sometimes you stumble into something and you have no idea how you got there but you're glad you did. 

While resurrecting the Monday Art Journal series yesterday, I decided a fresh start means it needed a fresh header. I've tried using free fonts over the years but nothing really worked. It always felt too rigid and impersonal. I wanted to try write my own header. This presented me with a problem though since my handwriting is not what I consider 'pretty'. It serves its purpose for shopping lists and private journal ramblings but it doesn't flow well. 

Then I remembered an artist I only recently discovered the name of- Kal Barteski. You would have seen her brush script style all over the Internet, I know I had. After trawling through pages of blog posts and learning a bit more about this incredible lady (watch her amazing TedX talk about how she became a polar bear artist here) I decided to give brush script writing a go. 

I spent the night experimenting with different variations on letters, using capitals in the middle of a word (I do this with my usual handwriting anyway since there are certain letters I don't like the look of in lowercase) and variations in pressure. 

I quickly fell in love with this style of writing and have since filled about 3 x A4 pages and an A2 page with words. P.S. I'm aware of the spelling and grammar mistakes in the one below, but I wanted to share it anyway.

So far I have just used Indian Inks in different colours but want to try it with watercolours also. It brings me such joy to write like this and I could do it for hours.

Rhiannon x