A very beautiful piece.

The writing is very smooth and the flourishing quite well done.
The initial G looks traditional, very effective (gold leaf the next time? ).
I love your background, what is "distressed ink"?

Well, there's not a lot to critique here, I'm sorry
This is very refined... and I like to make calligraphies with sad texts too.

wow! thanks! that means a lot coming from a pro and who's calligraphy I too respect. Yeah, gold leaf would have probably been more effective, but I have never played with gold leaf, and I didn't have any around at the time, so I opened an old, dried up tube of gold gouache. What a pain in the butt, too. I had to thin it down just right with water, and it keep clumping up on me while I was painting it on. Frustrating. I think the calligraphy could have been better, but I'm so used to the traditional italic hand and I am trying to practice more with batarde, miniscule and blackletter. I'll just keep on practicing.

Info about Distress Ink can be found here

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"Fawner for a leeched heart;
allegiance to a she-while;
love's last aegis holds pause."

Beautifully done piece. I agree with the comments of Holyrose. The only critique I would make is that the inter-word spacing is a bit ragged. That is a very minor nit in a wonderfully executed piece. I like the text. It is truly reflective of our times.

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BetulaNigra
Lovin' Life at 60

~Apophysis
~DeviousFractals
~Phaera Project

thanks for the critique. i hope critiques like this will help me better my work. hmmm, i am however a little confused about "inter-word" spacing. i guess you are simply referring to the space between each work. i know i need to work in that, and i see what you mean. i'm happy you like it!

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"Fawner for a leeched heart;
allegiance to a she-while;
love's last aegis holds pause."

Yes, there are two basic areas where people have spacing problems in calligraphy--interword spacing and intraword spacing. Interword spacing is the distance between words, while intraword spacing is the space between letters within a word. I hope that helps. Like I said, it is a nit, but something you can work on to improve over time.

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BetulaNigra
Lovin' Life at 60

~Apophysis
~DeviousFractals
~Phaera Project

Beautiful....

hey, thank you! Your work is equally as beautiful

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"Fawner for a leeched heart;
allegiance to a she-while;
love's last aegis holds pause."

thanks... but you are way ahead of me...

Ah, i love to see people keeping the writing arts alive, I really love this piece. Not just one script, a mixture of a few, Uncial, Half Uncial, Littera bastarda, and Insular Maiuscule! What good tight hand!

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Rumble, Lazer beak, do your worse, the Autobots must pay!