November Calliarts - Boxing at its Best

 

Dear Members and Followers,

The November Calliarts will see us getting ready for Christmas, with tutors Valerie Keevers, Gloria Scott and Glenis Sheather showing us how to make boxes for those special Christmas gifts.  Each tutor will demonstrate how to construct the boxes and provide the patterns and instructions.  As this is a paper and card craft workshop you will need additional materials, along with your usual calligraphy gear.  A happy day is assured for all as you make your bevy of boxes.

Materials List: 

·          Cutting mat

·         Craft knife and scissor

·         Steel edged ruler

·         Bone folder, if you have one

·         Glue and/or double sided tape

·         Graphite pencil and pencil sharpener

·         Set square and compasses, if you have them

·         Usual chisel or flexible nibs, ink and/or paint if you want to write some words on your boxes

 Box options: 

Square Box

·  Suitable craft card, white and/or colours, 4 x A4 and 2 x A3 size no thicker than 210gsm.  Newsagent card is quite suitable.  Also foil card, if liked

·    Ribbon – Organza – 10mm–20mm x 1m long (Optional)

 Triangle box

·         Two or more A4 size card – Christmas colours or other

·         Ribbon 5 or 10 mm wide – allow 40 cm for two pieces per box

·         Hole punch and or acetate (A5) if you have any

 The Jewel Box – aka Gift Box

·         One sheet of A3 card - Christmas colours or other

·         Optional – any stickers or cutouts to decorate box

·         Gift tie or Ribbon – 10mm to 15mm wide, 45 cm long

·         Hole punch.  There will be one provided if needed

 

Date:               Saturday, 12 November 2022

Time:              1.00pm – 4.00pm

Cost:               $15.00 – Members, $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:             Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania

                      (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making

October Calliarts - Upping Our Calligraphy Game with Uncial

 Dear Members and Followers,

The Uncial script was used by scribes between the 4th and 8th Centuries.  Over time the lettering has evolved into the modern variations we see today.  It’s a script that remains popular because of its ease of writing and legibility, making it an ideal script for our new members to learn.  We won’t forget our experienced calligraphers in the workshop because we will be looking at some variations to make the lettering more contemporary.

The project I have planned is the first phase of making a lid for one of the boxes planned for the November Calliarts.

Materials List:

 

·         An A3 size Bleedproof layout pad

·         A broad-edged nib, or duo pen for beginners; a variety of different sized nibs for                                 experienced calligraphers

·         Ink or gouache of your choice

·         Usual calligraphy gear

For the project:

·         Paper or card, white or cream, within the range of 190 – 210 gsm.  Newsagent cardboard is                 suitable.  2 x A4 sheets or 1 x A3 sheet

·         Ink, gouache or duo pen in Christmas colours

·         Cutting mat

·         Cutting blade

·         Steel ruler

Date:               Saturday, 8 October 2022

Time:               1.00pm – 4.00pm

Cost:                $15.00 – Members, $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:          Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania

                    (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au 

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making.

Please note that occasionally there will be a small extra cost to cover our increasing photocopying costs.

September Calliarts - Writing Around in Circles

 Dear Members and Followers,

Don't let the title fool you, we really don't want you going around the twist this Spring, instead introduce yourself to the fun of writing in circles. Create a piece of art as well as some calligraphy with our tutor Valerie Keevers and if time permits we may even try to expand our writing to triangles.

So get out your calligraphy gear and join us for some Spring fun.

Materials List:

·                 A3 or A4 pad

·         Compass

·         Ruler, Pencil, Eraser

·         Tracing Paper, some small A5 or A4 Watercolour paper pieces or Canvases

·         Short quotes

·         Acrylic or Watercolour paints and 2 water jars

·         Paint brushes, at least 1 medium and 1 small brush

·         Chisel nibs in smaller sizes rather than larger ones

 

Date:               Saturday, 10 September 2022

Time:               1.00pm – 4.00pm

Cost:                $15.00 – Members, $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:          Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania

                    (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making.

Revisiting a Classic - Shamrock with Gloria

 Dear Members and Followers,

 For the August Calliarts we are revisiting an old favourite in Shamrock. 

Shamrock is an open style of lettering with a minimum of pen manipulation and no serifs or flourishes. Alan Cornwall in ‘The Australian students lettering book’ introduced it as “a style with roots in Gaelic language”. Kaye E. Frost in ‘Alphabets for calligraphers letters and design’ described it as “based on a type originally designed by Alan Withers”, so take your pick! 

This letterform has very clear distinct letters and is usually written with a chisel edge nib.  It is also useful and very successful for brush lettering. 

Copyrighted Gloria Scott

Materials List: 

·         chisel nibs, Speedball 3 or Mitchell 2½

·         plus the usual calligraphy gear and a guide line page to suit your nib 

Shamrock is written at a pen angle of 25 to 30 degrees, with a body height of 4 pen widths, ascenders 2 P/W and decenders 3 P/W.

Date:            Saturday, 13 August 2022

Time:           1.00pm – 4.00pm

Tutor:           Gloria Scott

Cost:            $15.00 – Members, $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:          Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (near Southgate          Shopping Centre) 

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au 

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making.

July Calliarts - Embossing with Valerie

 Dear Members and Followers,

This month we take a break from our lettering and take out some embossing tools instead.

The Cambridge Dictionary describes embossing as:

"To decorate an object, especially with letters, using special tools that make a raised mark on its surface"

This will be a fun way to spend a Winter's afternoon following our Christmas in July lunch.

General Requirements:

• Pencil, ruler and eraser,
• Masking tape,
• A4 pad,
• Tracing paper,
• Bone folder,
• Light weight card stock (optional),
• Or -A5 or any size pieces of 120-180gsm papers Coloured is fine but white is better,
• Watercolours & fine brush or coloured pencils (optional).

Tools:

• Ball or spoon embossing tools,
• Fine double ended bossing tool,
• If you do not have these - an empty ball point pen can be used just ensure it has no ink left in it,
• Small teaspoon can be useful.

If you wish to make your own stencils:

• Light weight card - a cereal box is ideal,
• Fine pointed scissors,
• Cutting mat and sharp craft knife,
• UHU type glue,
• Needle point tweezers are handy as is a wooden skewer

Where: Sylvania Community Centre, Canberra Road, Sylvania

When: 9 July 2022

Time: 1pm to 4pm

Cost: $15 members, $20 non-members (direct deposit preferred)

Bookings: Essential - email  southscribes@yahoo.com.au for bookings and payment details.

Questions: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

We're Getting Straight to the Point - Calliarts - Modern Uncial Or Pointed Pen Uncial

 Dear Members and Followers

Come join me in this afternoon Calliarts for some fun with letters. The letterform is based on Mike Kecseg’s Pointed Pen Uncial, where the compressed letters are oval instead of round with no ascenders and the descenders are minimal.

Mike Kecseg writes in Uncommon Numbers, that “the idea behind the development of this hand was to use the pointed pen to create letterforms that are traditionally done with a broad-edged nib.” c.1998 PenUltimates, Plantation, Florida.

By the end of the afternoon, you will have learnt a new hand or, brushed up on a familiar one and go home with a reminder of the class that you will create.

Materials List:

·         Layout pad

·         Pointed nib of your choosing

·         Pen holder

·         Ink/Gouache (black plus colours)

·         Graphite pencil

·         Black fineliner

·         Coloured pencils

·         Tracing paper (especially if you are new to the hand)

·         Usual calligraphy gear (ruler, eraser, slope board, water jar, paper towelling /tissues, mixing palette, cheap brush/es for mixing and loading gouache onto nibs)

·         Embroidery cotton (your choice of colour – fine wool is a suitable alternative)

Date:            Saturday, 11 June 2022

Time:            1.00pm – 4.00pm

Tutor:           Cathy Sayer

Cost:             $15.00 – Members, $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:        Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making.

Words Paint a Picture - May Calliarts - Calligrams

 Dear Members and Followers,

A calligram is a picture or design that is created by arranging words or lines to fill or form an image.  Usually, the words relate to the image.  The most basic example is a single outline filled with written texture to create the image, or to form the outline of the image.

There are no hard and fast rules, e.g. letter height, line spacing, pen, nib size, to create a calligram.  However, calligrams require good planning and practice with trials of roughs and the selected image before attempting the final image.

With an easily identified shape a loose style of lettering can be used, e.g. a leaf shape can be simply formed by repeating the word “leaf” over and over again in a freely written script.

Extract from The Encyclopedia of Calligraphic Techniques.

“If text (words) are to be read, more time is needed to fit words into the shape.  Some possible ideas (solutions) could be to include different styles of letterforms and/or different weights.  Don’t forget variations of texture, nib or lettering size and colour variation can be adopted to give added form or definition to the shape.”

Materials List:

A3 or A4 pad

Usual calligraphy gear

One piece tracing paper A3 or A5

Pilot fine line pen, 0.4 or 0.5

Pen, nibs William Mitchell or Brause 2½, 3 or 4

Optional Materials:

Water colour paints. Or Gouache mixed to ink consistency

Two water jars

Coloured pencils

 Date:       Saturday, 14 May 2022

Time:      1.00pm - 4.00pm

Tutor:      Gloria Scott

Cost:        $15.00 – Members.  $20.00 – Non-Members

Place:      Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (near Southgate Shopping Centre) 

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

  

Looking forward to seeing you!

Calliarts - Gothic with a Twist

Dear Members and Followers,

Be prepared for a twist at the end of our calliarts this month when we explore Gothic - With a Twist.

Date:       Saturday, 9 April 2022

Time:       1.00pm - 4.00pm

Cost:        $15.00

Place:      Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

Materials List:

A4 or A3 pad.

Ruler, pencil, eraser.

Ink, Goauche or Water Colour paint or Watercolour Pencils.

Small pointed brush, water jars.

Short quote or nursery rhyme. 

Any of the following that you might have.  Please do not buy anything!

William Mitchell scroll / split nibs any size.

Parallel Pen split nib

Automatic Pen split nib.

Two Pencils taped together. 

Optional.

Paddle Pop stick

Balsa Dowel (approx. 12mm diameter X 100mm)

To cut paddle pop stick or Balsa, a Stanley knife and cutting mat is needed.

April 1 - Membership Day

 Dear Members,

Calligraphy Southscribes membership renewal fees are due on 1 April 2022.  To renew your membership please fill in a Membership Renewal Form that was emailed recently and return it with your payment.

Please remember that whether you are paying your fees by direct deposit (preferred), cheque or cash, you need to fill in a Membership Renewal Form for our records. 

We hope that all current members will renew their membership.  The support of our members is imperative for the continuation of our society so please renew your membership at your earliest convenience.

March Calliarts - Modern Pen with Glenis

 Dear Members and Followers,

In what could be our last ever Calliarts - come join us for something thoroughly modern.

Modern variations of Copperplate are becoming more and more popular, with different versions appearing in advertising, cards, etc.  The lettering I will be presenting to you is quite funky and can be used for many projects, such as name tags, greeting cards, etc.  It teams nicely with the Doodling pieces Cathy presented at our Christmas Party Calliarts, so if you would like to add some words to the pieces you did at that workshop please bring them along.

Materials List: 

Pointed nibs - either straight or elbow depending on your preference

Layout pad

Ink or gouache of your choice

Usual Calligraphy gear

Optional – pieces from the Doodling Workshop

Calliarts: Modern Pen

Tutor: Glenis Sheather

When:  Saturday 12 March 2022

Time: 1pm to 4pm

Place: Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au