The class will use pencil and brush tip pens to build your knowledge base and understand the sequence of the pen strokes, before moving into pointed nib pen using Sumi ink, watercolour, and even Gold watercolour to develop beautiful letters.

This class is especially suitable for beginners and anyone who wishes to use this modern style of calligraphy to create their own labels, place cards, wedding invitations, birthday cards and many, many other things.

If you would like to stretch yourself a little, and learn how to create beautiful letters in the Modern Calligraphy style, then join Anne for this short series of lessons which will start your creative journey with pen and ink.

Anne Taylor is a Calligrapher, Calligraphy tutor and current workshop coordinator for the Calligraphy Society of South Australia Inc. Teaching and encouraging everyone to regain the pleasure of writing by hand, and showing them how to create beautiful letters, is her passion. In this short series of three classes Anne’s focus will be on the popular and vey accessible, style of writing known as Modern Calligraphy.

In her own work, and with her calligraphy students, she likes to begin with the basics, using simple tools to learn the pen strokes of this alphabet, before moving on to create more complex forms.

This will be a three part course running on three consecutive Sundays from 10am-1pm. The course will commence on Sunday the 29th of May, concluding on Sunday the 12th of June.

 

MATERIALS LIST:

 

Oblique pen holder - for right handed people

Straight pen holder - for left handed people

Zebra G Nibs x 2

Small watercolour brush size 1 (doesn’t have to be high quality it is simply for mixing watercolour paint to then brush onto a nib)

Japanese Sumi Ink - either Kuretake black ink (60ml bottle) or Moon Palace Sumi Ink (70ml bottle)

HB and 2B pencil

Tombow Fudenosuke hard tip brush pen in BLACK

Calligraphy pad - “The Calligrapher” by Fox and Fallow

or

A4 Rhodia paper with a 5mm dot grid

A roll of kitchen paper or a piece of lint-free cloth to clean the nib

A small jam jar to hold water and clean the nib

A craft apron to prevent ink from getting on your clothes