June Calliarts - Italic Capitals

 Dear Members and Followers,

To quote a famous song "I simply must go, baby it's cold outside" is the perfect segway to our June Calliarts. It's cold outside so you simply must go to our afternoon of calligraphy. 

As a follow-up to  previous Italic calliarts, our afternoon this month will be centred on Italic capitals with Gloria Scott.

We will look at:

1) the basic capital letters

2) a subdued flourished entry as an alternate choice. 

Requirements

·       Usual calligraphy equipment (ruler, pencil, water etc)

       but particularly:

·       A3 bleed-proof paper pad.

·       Broad (chisel) edged nib pens either Speedball (or other brand) nib sizes 1, 2 or 3.

·       Ink or gouache, water pot, paper towel.

·       Coloured felt tip pens, felt tip broad edge pens.

·       Most importantly, your slope board (if you don’t have one, they are available at the hall).

Time: 12.30pm – 4.00pm

Date: 14 June 2025

Cost: $20.00 – Members, $25.00 – 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.

May Calliarts - Rotunda with Valerie and Gloria

 Dear Members and Followers,

This May we explore the blackletter script of Rotunda with Valerie and Gloria, who are both well versed in the script.

The Rotunda is a specific medieval blackletter script. It originates in Carolingian minuscule. Sometimes, it is not considered a blackletter script, but a script on its own. It was used mainly in southern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotunda_(script) 

One of the key differences between Rotunda and other blackletter scripts is that broken bows appear only in a few letters such as d.

Materials List :

*     Any chisel pens.

*     Ruler, pencil, eraser.

*     A3 or A4 pad.

*    Ink or Watercolours. Brush

*    Small quote.

Date:     Saturday, 11 May 2024  

Time:     12.30pm – 4.00pm  

Cost:      $20.00 – Members, $25.00 – 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.  

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

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.

Flowers - Calligraphy Challenge

 Dear Members and Followers,

"Flowers are sunshine food, and medicine to the soul". So let us bring some sunshine to your soul with another bouquet of calligraphy pieces for you.

Penny Laver

Kay Pittman

Gloria Scott

Patricia Moody

Valerie Keevers

Stop and Smell the Flowers - Calligraphy Challenge

 Dear Members and Followers,

In times like these it is always important to stop and smell the flowers.

Gloria Scott

Glenis Sheather

Valerie Keevers

Calliarts - July - Using Your Calligraphy

 Dear Members and Followers,

In this Mini workshop we will be looking at the “Steps and Stairs” of creating

a finished piece of calligraphic art, whether it is a book mark, envelope or

short stories.  

Please bring your usual gear plus some coloured Textas/Duopens/pencils

etc.  You will also need a subject piece: eg poem, event poster, card topic or a quote of

more than six words etc.  A relaxed afternoon is assured as you will be playing with ideas.

An invitation to join Gloria for a relaxed afternoon using Calligraphy

as an excuse to enjoy an afternoon among friends and a chance to

show our skills as scribes.

Where: Sylvania Community Hall, Canberra Road, Sylvania

When: Saturday 10 July, 2021

Time: 1pm to 4pm

Cost: $15.00

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

March into Calligraphy - Rotunda Calliarts

 Dear Members and Followers,

This March Calliarts sees our tutor Gloria Scott present Rotunda.

This Rotunda script developed from the Carolinginian miniscule, had established its own

distinctive form by the 12th century and remained popular until the 18th century.  It was

widely used in Spain.  Its use varied from small text hand to large letters as used in

Choral Antiphonals.   (This information abstracted from the Calligraphy Bible by David Harris.)

 

Rotunda has many uses, e.g. cards, bookmarks, lettering titles, envelopes, etc.

It will assist the activity if the participants could prepare their line guides.

 March 13 lower case line guide:  Ascender 2 p/w, body height 4 p/w, descender 2 p/w

with an interlinear break of two or three pen widths, using the pen nib size of your choice.

 

The April Calliart will be centred on the capitals and some decoration.

 

Materials:  You will need your usual calligraphy gear; i.e. layout pad, slope board if you have one,

plastic ruler, HB or 2B pencil, fine liner pen, pen nibs Speedball 2 or 3, Mitchell 1 1/2 or 2 or similar,

ink or gouache, water jar to clean nibs, paper towel.

Please note this is a two part class - March 13 and April 10. Do one or both (recommended both)

When: Saturday 13 March 2021

Where: Sylvania Community Hall, Canberra Road, Sylvania

Time: 1pm to 4pm

Cost: $10.00 

Bookings: Due to COVID-19 requirements, bookings are now required for all calliarts and workshops. To book: email southscribes@yahoo.com.au  for registration and direct deposit details.

Calliarts - September 2020 - Calligrams

 Dear Members and Followers,

September for us here sees Spring and a Calliarts on Calligrams with Gloria Scott.

"A calligram is a word, phase,poem or quote in which handwriting or script is used to form the artwork.  A calligram can be created with many different words for many different purposes: e.g. Associations, cards, signs, illustrations, chalk art, etc."

 

Materials List:

• general calligraphy gear 
• slope board if you have one 
• A3 layout pad + pencil, ruler and eraser 
• dip pens – chisel pens – of various sizes 
• 0.4 black art line pen or similar 
• tracing paper 
• ink or gouache/watercolours 
• some A4 good quality paper (if art pad type, smooth or similar) 
• one or two quotes or short verse etc.

When: Saturday 12 September 2020 - 1pm to 4pm.

Where: Sylvania Community Hall, Canberra Road, Sylvania

Cost: $10 - due to Covid-19 direct deposit is preferred payment option

Bookings: Essential for a place - email southscibes@yahoo.com.au for booking and payment details.

Copyrighted Cathy Sayer

Calliarts - Uncial for Beginners Plus

Dear Members and Followers,

Our first Calliart for 2020 will be Uncial for Beginners Plus on Saturday February 8.

This 3hr afternoon will be centred on learning the basics of Uncial focusing on strokes and lettering. For the more experienced scribes we will look at some extension/compression and and pointed nib examples with the following one day workshop with Cathy Sayer in mind.

Come one, come all – Calliart afternoons are always welcoming, you will learn something new!

Beginners Materials List:

• A3 size layout pad, suitable for pen, ink

•  Calligraphy pens (e.g. Zig or Marv duo pens) 2.0mm to 5.0mm OR  Calligraphy cartridge pen (e.g. Shaeffer, Manuscript) with a broad nib. Usually these come in a set, please bring them to the workshop and you can try them out. Alternatively,pen nib holder, nibs (Speedball Series ‘C’ 3 or 4

• Ink FW, Quink, China Black, etc.
• Ruler, pencil (2B is good), white plastic eraser, pencil sharpener, note paper or scribbler
• Artline 0.4 (or smaller) fineliner black pen
• Small water jar and paper towel
• Slopeboard if you have one
• Plastic A4 sleeves for your worksheets

 Intermediate and/or Advanced:

• Please bring your usual calligraphy materials (as above)
• Plus various nib sizes - eg. Speedball 0, 1, Mitchell or Brause broad 2, etc.
• Gouache
• Slopeboard

Copyrighted Gloria Scott

Place: Sylvania Community Hall, Canberra Rd, Sylvania

Date: Saturday 8 February 2020

Time: 1pm to 4pm

Cost: $10.00