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Visconti Van Gogh Impressionist Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman - Fountain Pen
Visconti Van Gogh Impressionist Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman - Fountain Pen
The Van Gogh Impressionist Collection offers a range of pens inspired by paintings from one of the world's most acclaimed artists. The original Visconti Van Gogh Collection enjoyed more than 10 years of success worldwide and provided an exceptional range of pens in a multitude of colors. More than five years since the last colors were retired, Visconti has provided further inspiration and innovation ... a range of writing instruments not only inspired by the artist's color and technique, but also the emotion and technique of the individual paintings themselves. Through meticulous and painstaking choice of color and palette mix, each Visconti pen is unique and has emerged to represent a specific Van Gogh painting. The name of the painting and artist are delicately engraved around the pen ring, and each pen is packed into a unique gift box that is complemented with a faithfully reproduced canvas of the painting. The pen itself utilizes Visconti's 18-faceted design, the many edges enhancing the vivid colors of the pen. As always, each pen may be personalized using Visconti's patented MY PEN SYSTEM and Visconti has employed their popular magnetic closure system. The fountain pen is enhanced with a finely engraved steel nib, available in M,F,B. Cartridge /converter fill.
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Customization Guide
Stub
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Above is the same size nib after a regrind to Stub. A regrind to Stub is often a good place to start for your first customization. Ā A Stub nib provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes while writing, and is less position-sensitive on the paper than the crisper and slightly more demanding cursive italic.
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Cursive Italic
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More demanding, but also providing crisper edges and more line-width variation, is the very popular customization to Cursive Italic. This also provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, but is also more position-sensitive in terms of how the pen is held and requires more skill on the part of the user. This is a common customization for artists and calligraphers, but is still smooth enough to make for a good everyday writer.
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Formal Italic
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Formal Italic is an even crisper and more demanding customization than either cursive italic or left oblique, and is usually utilized for calligraphy and by the most experienced users. This provides broad down-strokes and narrow cross-strokes, with even crisper corners and edges than a cursive italic - this is an extremely position-sensitive customization.
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Left Oblique
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Ā Commonly used for signatures and correspondence, the Left ObliqueĀ customization provides broad diagonal strokes and narrow cross-strokes, and like a cursive italic, is more position-sensitive and demanding than a stub. The whole pen must be rotated to the left in order to write smoothly, without skipping. The "Left" in Left Oblique refers to the cut of the nib itself, and does not refer to the handedness of the writer. |
Architect's Point (Also for Arabic and Hebraic writing)
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A more exotic regrind is that toĀ Architectās Point. Named after the style of writing used by Frank Lloyd Wright, this regrind is the opposite of cursive italic, and provides for broad cross-strokes and narrow down-strokes.Ā This also tends to be a particularly useful customization for those practicing Arabic or HebraicĀ calligraphy. |
Spencerian
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Perhaps our most popular customization, but also one of the most advanced, theĀ Mottishaw Spencerian CustomizationĀ has gained special attention from being featured in a customer's YouTube video which has now received over twelve million views! The Spencerian starts from a semi-soft 14k nib and adds additional flex and a regrind to needlepoint to create a specialized writing point used for copperplate calligraphy. For more details, visit our specialĀ Spencerian page.. |