In February, our program was to revisit the Ruling Pen. This is the Haff pen mostly used by Thomas Hoyer, Louie Lemoine, Rosemary Buczek and other calligraphy instructors. It is an old drafting or engineering tool used, for ruling lines!! And works very well for that purpose, I might add!

Our primary goal was to get as many spatters as possible from the pen and to find out what marks are possible with this tool.  Using walnut ink and Strathmore Drawing or Sketch paper, this happens fairly easily...

Lettering is easily achieved with it as well......

It is a fun tool! play with it! it makes strange and interesting marks!