ArtSpace Classes
Beginning Italic Classes with Barb Reed
Crestwood Court ArtSpace #115. Classes will include capital and minuscule letters, numbers and punctuation, lining and spacing, as well as other basic information. Class Fee is $75 for six weeks, two hours each class. Supply Fee is an additional $19 (approx.)
Please contact Barb Reed for further information or to sign up for waiting list for next class. 314.832.0671 or reedkobergia@sbcglobal.net
Three Months of Extended Study with Julian Waters
Crestwood Court ArtSpace #115. 9 am to 4:30 pm; October 22-23,2011; February 11-12, 2012; April 21-22, 2012. Cost: Member = $125 per weekend or $330 for all three weekends; Non-Member = $150 for one weekend (includes $25 guild membership through August 31, 2012. Additional workshop weekends are billed at the Members’ rate.) Send your name, address, phone number and e-mail along with a check made out to The Saint Louis Calligraphy Guild to: Leslie Barnes, 1123 Folger Ave., St. Louis MO 63122.
- Make Your Italic Sing! • October 22-23, 2011. Are you in a rut with your Italic? Do you keep falling into the same patterns and does your Italic need more spark and individuality? Italic can be the most versatile of all the broad pen families of scripts and is capable of infinite variation. Julian will set you on the path to understand the components of Italic writing (or any style, for that matter), and help you build the knowledge, skills and confidence to modify your Italic to be expressive and better suit the mood of the words you want to express.
First, a review of general principles of consistency, texture and spacing will help to clean up your basic Italic minuscules and simple and complex capitals. Then we will explore the principles of making custom variations—changing weights, slants, widths, branching points, shapes of arches and spatial relationships with layout tips. Along the way, we will explore various broad pen techniques including rotation, cornering and pressure variation, all in the interest of creating new kinds of shapes and personal touches in our work. - Blackletter Variations & Other Magic • February 11-12, 2012. We will explore ways of achieving dense, even texture, minimizing white space, before constructing actual letterforms, combinations and writing of text. This approach will lead to making strong, graphically exciting Blackletter writing, before adding refinements used in variations and developing matching capitals. We will also apply these principles to create similar rich density in other styles, including using other tools, such as the folded ruling pen. This workshop allows people to really develop a strong feeling for texture and space, while also learning a lot about the broad pen and the ruling pen. Julian has developed many techniques which you will not find addressed in textbooks.
- Writing on the Edge: Modern Calligraphic Techniques • April 21-22, 2012. Expand your range of calligraphic techniques with both the broad pen and the ruling pen, with emphasis on manipulating those two tools in creative ways for special kinds of shapes, vitality in writing and subtle details, and working on touch and technique with letterform, space, texture, unity and spark. Class time will include specific exercises, technical practice, small and large writing, using different kinds of letterforms, and plenty of time for personal experimentation. You should end up with renewed confidence in expressive textural writing as well as consistent and refined lettering in book pages or broadsides.
If you have a class you would like to teach, please contact Patricia Dresler, the ArtSpace Coordinator,
at patricia@alphadance.com.
