The final lettering course for 2015, reduced to 4 weeks takes a twist and looks at colour. Our founding member Gloria Scott, will each be teaching four weeks of the course designed to increase your knowledge or introduce you to the concept of colour and calligraphy.
Calligraphers
paint pictures with words, so the colour/s you choose for your script or
background design can have a real effect on the feeling and emotion of your
work.
The classic combination of black, red & white will always look good,
but colour will make your work sing.
To commence, we will be creating a colour wheel and then it will be onto use of colour in our calligraphy.
Equipment List for Weeks 1:
- Gouache, 14 ml tubes (Winsor & Newton) Series 1 only – ($8.70 Eckersley’s although 20% off until end of October) retail $7.45 each from Parkers Fine Arts, Cambridge St, The Rocks.
- Permanent white
- Lamp black
- Lemon yellow (cool)
- Spectrum yellow (warm)
- Sky blue (cool)
- Ultramarine (warm)
- Bengal rose (cool)
- Flame red (warm)
Brushes - Eckersley’s
have Cotman synthetic sable and Parker's their own brand
- 4 x no 4 bristle brushes for mixing.
- 2 good quality brushes for painting. Suggest No1 and No 3
But whatever
you get, your brush must be able to retain a good point as you paint – don’t
bother with sable brushes at this stage unless you already have them.
Extras:
- 2 white ice cube trays, or small white porcelain dishes (Asian) for mixing.
- Artline, indelible liner. Fine.
- Small, narrow roil of Gladwrap (or similar)
- 2 water jars, plus chux or old towel.
We will work with the colour wheel, tertiary colours, tones and
tints, progressing to colour in letterforms, using either straight edged brushes
or nibs,working on tone-on-tone. Enrolments are asked to bring a verse or
prose tocomplete the exercise. Please bring usual calligraphy equipment, A3
layout pad etc.
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