Instructor: Vivian Mungall
mini workshop
Inland Empire Regional
Contact: Alessandra Kawakubo
Contact phone: (909)839-3221
$35
Description:
The 2 hour class will cover what is a cadel and the basic characteristics. Since there were no standard cadel exemplars and few exemplars printed in writing manuals, each scribe developed his own unique style across Europe. The class will be a journey through different cadel styles, showing different design techniques from Flamel’s simpler style to more complex letters by Rossi and Palatino. We will also cover how to use patterns to develop your own capitals.
Other Info:
Link to be sent prior to event
Materials Needed:
• 3.8 Pilot Parallel Pen with ink of your choice
• Copy paper
• Pencil and eraser
• Micron and gold pen for filigree (like Pentel Sunburst
Metallic Medium gold gel pen for the class. For formal
pieces, Ziller’s Aspen Gold Ink or 24K gold powder)
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Paypal option available. PayPal's non-refundable fees will be added
Instructor: Barbara Close
Workshop
San Diego Regional
Contact: Kristi Darwick
Contact phone: 909-274-8297
$110
Italics is the most admired style of calligraphy along with pointed pen scripts. But, sometimes they are a mystery. We will look at a traditional 5 pen-width high and 5 degree slant, then we will jump off the diving board and find more ways to gain enjoyment from these beautiful letters.
Students must be set up to take a Zoom class with video and audio (signed on one device); access to a printer is required to print some of the handouts.
Instructor: Schin Loong
Inland Empire/Pomona Valley Regional
Contact phone: 909-839-3221
$45
In this class we will learn to create simple modern flourishes to decorate words, sentences and space. These flourishes can be used to decorate your existing pointed pen or broad pen script. This is a companion class to Floral Envelopes Workshop.
In this fun, light hearted class we will create a beautiful flowering garden out of your pointed pen script. We will cover basic flourishing, floral watercolor painting and tips and tricks on how to mail these envelopes successfully. I’m excited to meet and share with you and together we’ll enjoy an afternoon full of beautiful flowers and nature.
Details TBA
Instructor: Anne Elser
workshop
$120
Flourishing means to flower, and must come from within. We assume we can’t because we are beginners, because we hesitate, because our hands are shaky, our lines imperfect, and man, that dern pointed pen is so persnickety. We are incredibly hard on ourselves. This kind of negative thinking chokes our ability to thrive, so my approach to flourishing begins with marveling first at the miracle you are, becoming a friend to fear, and then training the eye on what it needs to see to create flourishes - the OVAL. I’ll show you just how easy it is to spot opportunities for ovals to be made. We take our cues from the shapes and strokes already there in your letter forms. We’ll train the eye to work from micro to macro, dissecting space into simple shapes of counterbalance and we’ll work slowly enough to give the eye time to spot opportunities to flourish as you are moving. We will take plenty of breaks!
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SfC sponsored
Contact: Rosana Ang
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Open-Shaded Script: Using a colored pencil to describe the contour of a shaded stroke offers insight into its construction with its native tools, the broad-edge, pointed pen, or paint brush. Drawing these letter forms is not only useful in sketching out and planning of larger projects to be later filled in with ink, I believe they are also valid and beautiful class of letter forms in, and of, themselves. This workshop is a prerequisite for Flora.
Speaker: Anne Elser
lecture
free
I’ll be using examples of my work in various mediums and creative themes that held my interest as an art student, graphic designer, painter, and calligrapher, that still today pull my letterform practice towards deeper meaning as a mode of self transformation and healing. I strongly believe that the challenges we all face as humans can be used for good, and to propel us all towards better health and into loving, nurturing relationships with ourselves and each other.
Flora (the feminine personification of the healing powers of nature), draws upon the texture created by the double-hit, Open-Shaded Script stroke made in Monolinear Lettering, as a way to illustrate flourishes and florae forms as accents and extensions of our lettering. Using watercolor pencils and watercolors, we’ll harness the power of sensuous forms through the lens of pencils and a brush, and the vivid expression of color. Pencil meets paintbrush - you’ll become more adept at brush control as it flirts so beautifully with the soft, buttery, and thirsty watercolor pencils. We’ll use soft oval-shaped curves to describe absolutely every space-filling element on the page with every stroke. Open-Shaded Script is a prerequisite for this course.
We will take plenty of breaks!
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Instructor: Meredith Klein
SfC Sponsored
$150
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Do you love the beautiful round uncial letters? Originating in the 2nd to 4th centuries, they were the primary book hand, used in religious texts, until the 9th century. They continued to evolve and were used in the hierarchy of scripts beginning in Carolingian times. Still popular today, this elegant all-capital alphabet may be used alone or combined with other hands. In this class we begin with a version of uncials based on a 5th century manuscript. Students will learn the basic letterforms and the rhythm of round and upright strokes that give this hand its distinctive appearance. We will then look at uncial usage by contemporary calligraphers, and students will learn ways of modernizing uncials for use today.
Students must be set up to take a Zoom class with video and audio (signed on one device); access to a printer is required to print some of the handouts. If you must miss a session, Meredith will provide the necessary info, so you don't miss out.
Provided upon registration, or earlier, upon request
Host: Nancy Campbell
social event
San Gabriel Valley Regional
Contact: Nancy Campbell
Share an evening of fun and sharing. Please bring food, drinks, friends and your art work. Members of any regional group are welcome
Instructor: Elmo van Slingerland
NOTE: EXACT DAYS ARE TENTATIVE We will focus on good proportions, applying serifs, variations in letters and attention for detail and quality of form. We will use pen manipulation and pressure.
Level: Intermediate. $124 Paypal option includes Paypal fees FLYER WILL BE UPDATED WITH NEW DATES, LOCATION
NOTE: EXACT DAYS ARE TENTATIVE Taking the Italic hand with a broad edged pen a step further. Focusing on essential aspects of this versatile letter: construction of the letter, good proportion, quality of form and attention to detail, pen manipulation, pressure and pressure release and building up strokes. The goal is making our formal letters more dynamic and more vibrant.
$124 Paypal option includes Paypal fees FLYER WILL BE UPDATED WITH NEW DATES AND LOCATION
