The first Calliarts for the year was Double Pencils with
Gloria. Personally I am always perplexed with double pencils as I can never
seem able to join the lines together to create that three dimensional affect
that you are looking for but judging by the number of people who attended the
afternoon it is a popular lettering form. Gloria started the afternoon by
explaining the basic knowledge required to create a successful piece of
lettering with double pencils; this included how to join the two pencils
together, the correct position to hold the pencils in and what techniques to
use to enable the creation of larger or smaller letters.
After a quick coffee break it was back to work, at which time Gloria supplied an exemplar of a style of gothic lettering created using double pencils. We worked our way through the alphabet and then some of us chose one letter to work on, allowing us to create a finished piece. I had chosen an ‘M’ to use as a decoration for a card I had created. Gloria had kindly brought in lots of wrapping and handmade paper that was at our disposal to draw our letters onto and some excellent results ensued. What I imagined to be an afternoon of double trouble turned out to be double the fun.
