Instructor: DeAnn Singh
Sponsor: Westside Regional
Description:
DeAnn teaches a variety of holiday gift giving ideas for all your friends, family, and fellow calligraphers! Explore lettered gift wrap, holiday cards and envelopes, tags, and other creations, that are easy to do, using your own lettering supplies!
Also, learn recommended tools to give as studio gifts to both newbies and the experienced. From either new or recycled materials!
Suitable for all levels - both newbies and experienced
Registration details
Fee: $35 PayPal or Pay by check
Workshop for SfC members only. Non-members can join SfC for a separate $42 fee. Please click the following link to join SfC https://societyforcalligraphy.org/Join-SfC Membership can be used for any workshop/class through June 30, 2026.
Pay via PayPal. PayPal option includes non-refundable PayPal fees
Pay by check
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 the handouts.
Zoom set-up and audio test begins at 11:45 AM, 15 minutes prior to the start of the class.
This is a “Live” only Zoom session, no recording
Contact: Barbara or Judy CalligraphyWLA@aol.com with any questions or concerns.
Presenter: Veronica Phillips
Sponsored by
Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2026 6:30 - 8:30PM Online - Zoom
$80 (PAID WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO MEMBERS, ONLY )
No refunds. Recordings will be available for three months.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: The San Diego chapter enjoyed this workshop in-person. We're now able to offer it online.
Join us for a journey into creativity, introspection, hand lettering and play. We will start with two full sheets of Arches Text Wove and will create spaces and areas to design our own unique art.
To begin, we will review and warm up with Casual Romans and variations. Playing with variations of our own handwriting and favorite calligraphic hands will be explored.
Prompts will be offered to provide some introspection and contemplation. We will also use poetry, quotes and your own personal journaling. We will continue with a variety of art techniques, color play, and design. Collage, mask making, rubber stamps, small gel plate, watercolors, stencils, washi tape, masking and more will be techniques for our class.
The final step on this journey will be bookbinding. We will tear down our colorful sheets and sew the books with a unique binding technique.
This is a fast paced, fun and playful class. It will be a doorway for you to continue in your book at anytime in your art practice. Beginners and experts alike are welcome.
Supply list: 20260107_GridBook_supply list_w-o_contact.pdf. If you have any questions, please contact Kristi at iepvworkshops@societyforcalligraphy.org and she'll make sure you receive an answer.
Handouts and Zoom link will be provided a week in advance. Sessions will be recorded and available for three months.
ABOUT VERONICA: I began my Calligraphy journey in the late 80's. I was fortunate to study with Reggie Ezell year long class program and then three semesters with Tim Botts. My true love has always been Roman Letters. Studying with Peter Thornton has given me the discipline and creative permission to explore this art form for many years. In addition to Calligraphy, I do enjoy bookbinding and all sorts of mixed media play. I am now retired and able to enjoy the time and freedom it offers. I live in the Arizona desert and am a member of The Calligraphic Society of Arizona.
Another Example: Uncut, unbound page spreads from our friend Joyce in Gilbert, AZ:
Enrollment is for current paid Society for Calligraphy members only. Your membership must be current at time of sign-up as well as when class is held. No reservation will be held until your dues are current. If your membership lapses, you become ineligible. (To become a member: https://societyforcalligraphy.org/Join-SfC) No refunds unless your space can be filled from the waitlist. For confirmation and prompt receipt of supply list, we recommend that your payment arrive no later than two weeks before the workshop. You do not have a spot in the workshop until you receive a confirmation email.
After completing the first step of registration, an automatic email will be sent with a PayPal button, plus instructions, should you prefer to pay by check. If you don't receive that email within a few minutes, please check your spam folder. If you don't find it there, please contact Kristi.
Questions? E-mail Kristi Darwick at iepvworkshops@societyforcalligraphy.org.
NO audio or video recording of any program, meeting, workshop or other SfC function permitted without prior consent of both guest artist and a representative of the Board of Governors. ** You must ask permission of the artist/ instructor to photograph any copyrighted materials, including demos.
Guest presenter: Barbara Close.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 2025, 6:30-8PM PDT
SAVE-THE-DATE--will open for registration soon!
No charge for these Study Group Sessions. They are led by members, sharing what they have learned. They do not claim to be masters. Members and guests may register for any individual session--there is no requirement to attend prior sessions. The aim is to share knowledge with newbies and to provide a refresher for those with more experience. For this session, Barbara Close will demo an exercise from her recent in-person session for the Inland Empire Chapter. That class covered uncials, but here, she'll use Roman letters Each individual session requires separate registration.
We plan to record this session. Kristi asks that you remind her! Recording will be available for three months.
Flexible Schedule for the evening:
6:30 - 6:45 Announcements. Participants are invited to share any work they've done since last session, including their progress on our current projects.
6:45 - 7:45 Barbara close will walk us through writing Roman letters and adding pan pastels for that extra "POP".
7:45 - 8:00 An opportunity for those who wish to share what they've completed during this session (and another chance to share work done since our last session). Also, a time to ask more questions of our guest speaker.
SUPPLY LIST:
Membership not required
Handouts and Zoom invitation will be sent a day or two in advance.
You're welcome to sign up even at the last minute, but you may have to wait and participate via the recording . . . Those who sign up in advance will automatically receive the recording. We cannot respond to all those who missed registering in advance.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2025, 10:00AM-1:30PM PST
No charge - Outreach
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM:
Join us! We’re painting a colorful kissing fish design
that is actually a Zoomorphic from a 9th century Spanish manuscript.
In this paint along you are:
• Welcome to use you choice of colors as long as they’re middle tones so that we can shade and highlight your painting.
• Welcome to use your favorite medium such as gouache, watercolors, color pencils or take this opportunity to play and experiment with new materials.
• Use your favorite brand of small brushes just be sure they’re round and pointed
• Upon registration you will receive the materials list and the Pattern. The Pattern is yours to keep and use forever. Print out the Pattern on your favorite paper that will go thru a copier. I recommend Arches Text Wove.
This is a relaxed ONLINE class. The mic is open for questions and solutions. There’s a lot of sharing and individual attention to your work.
All skill levels. Recording will be available for three months.
OPTIONAL:
Membership in SfC is not required
Zoom invitation and handouts are sent a couple days in advance.
It's not guaranteed that you'll receive them beforehand, if you sign up the day of this event. Do still sign up to receive the recording.
Deposit Registration is open for our 2026 conference. The deposit amount is $50 which is non-refundable.
As at November 20, 2025, not all classes are available. Check the conference page for class availability.
The venue for 2026 will be the Sonesta Hotel Los Angeles Airport.
Join us for this amazing event!
The updated brochure can be found here: https://societyforcalligraphy.com/Conferences
Please read the brochure carefully for all information and if your questions are not answered then please contact the Registrar at lettersregistrar@gmail.com.
Your confirmation email will indicate the next steps for registration.
FLEXIBLE LETTERS AND FLOWING LINES with Nancy Hays-Hills
Sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Regional Group
This is your chance to spend a few hours breaking free of pen angles and straight lines, and instead dip your toes into the ocean of drawn letterforms which follow their own paths across the page. We’ll explore a number of tools suitable for drawing letters, from pencils and pointed pens to edged nibs and my favorite, the Kemper Fluid Writer. You’ll see how simple it is to add multiple colors to a letter as you create words that dance to your own inner rhythm. This is a class open to all skill levels. The beginner will discover new tools, and the more advanced letterers may find that they return to traditional scripts with a fresh perspective on form and negative space.
WORKSHOP FEE: $50.00 - Members Only Workshop
(No refunds unless the workshop is full and your spot can be filled by someone on the waitlist.) If you are not a member it is easy to join online! Don't miss out!
This workshop will be recorded but programs are always enhanced by your live attendance when you can ask questions and share insights, with both the instructor and other students.
This workshop will take place over 2 sessions: Tuesday, March 24, 2026 and Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 10am to 1pm (Pacific Time)
Materials:
Paper suitable for wet lettering (sugg. Arches Text Wove, watercolor paper)
A few sheets of graph paper or copier paper for pencil practice
Soft pencil and eraser
Watercolors or gouache (either pan or tube is fine) or Bister inks
Mixing Palette, water container, paper towels
Medium sized pointed brush
Kemper Fluid Writer
Pointed pen
Speedball C-6 or Brause 1mm, or other small chisel-edged nib and holders
Nancy Hays Hills is an artist and Episcopal deacon living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She began drawing as soon as she could hold a crayon, and was lucky enough to parents who encouraged their shy child to express herself on paper – especially her father, who would amuse her by drawing cartoons, sometimes in ballpoint pen on the bottoms of her feet! She took her first calligraphy course at age 17, and has incorporated lettering in her art ever since. She combines art and ministry by sending one-of-a-kind cards and envelopes to people in her parish, and leading mini creative classes over Zoom. Her artwork has been featured in Bound & Lettered, Alphabet, and the latest Speedball Textbook.
