Dear Members and Followers,
August gets arty with our workshop this month:
ART DECO STYLE
LETTERS WORKSHOP
20 August 2016
Tutor: Glenis Sheather
The Art Deco
period was one of style and elegance, emphasising sleek lines and geometrical
shapes and patterns. This workshop provides
an opportunity to step back into that stylish era by working on some Art Deco
style capital letters that work well with monoline scripts. Two pens are used to create the letters and
it is suggested you use a 5.0 mm pigmented marker and a 0.50 mm pigmented
fine-line marker of the same colour in the first instance. A 5 mm broad-edged nib and a rigid pointed
nib, such as a Post Office nib, could also be used with ink or gouache once you
have mastered the letters. A materials
list will be circulated closer to the workshop.
MATERIALS LIST
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Pens
These letters are formed using a
combination of a broad-edged felt tip pen and a fine liner pigment pen in the
same colour. I used the 5mm end of a Zig
Duo Calligraphy pen (available at Riot, Miranda Fair) and a 0.5mm fine liner
for my exemplar. You could also use the
3.5mm end of a Staedtler Duo pen (available at Eckersley’s) with a 0.4mm fine
liner.*
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1 x A4 sheet of tracing paper.
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Layout Pad
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Plastic rulers:
a regular sized one for ruling guide lines and a short one (only if you
have one) to use for the letters.
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HB or 2B pencil
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A couple of A5 or A4 sheets of better quality
paper if you wish to do a piece of work using the Art Deco lettering.
*It is best to
start off using felt tip pens for these letters. However, if you want to experiment with pen
and ink, bring along a broad-edged nib measuring 3.5-5mm wide and either a Speedball
B6 monoline nib or a rigid pointed nib such as a Post Office Nib and ink of
your choice.
