July Calliarts - Copperplate Decoration

 Dear Members,

Don't let winter give you the blues, come along have a fun time with Copperplate Decoration at Calligraphy Southscribes with Valerie.

Copperplate decoration is about learning the shapes/ marks a flexible pen can make and will add to your calligraphic skills.

The shapes are used to fill in letters or any specific shape eg. animals and flowers to make a pleasing picture.  Easier to do than traditional flourishing and use of colour gives a modern feeling.  A very relaxing way to enjoy a scribes Calliart afternoon on 13 th July.

Materials List:

• Any type of flexible or copperplate nibs.
• Ink or paint, several colours.
• Brush for mixing plus something to mix paints on.
• 2 water jars.
• Pencil, eraser, ruler.
• A4 practice pad.
• 2 or 3 small pieces of watercolour paper or coloured paper or light weight card about A5 size.
• Bring only if you you have any stencils or templates of flowers or animals as outline will be filled with decoration.

Date:     Saturday, 13 July 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.  

Canberra Calligraphy Society Exhibition

 Dear Members and Followers,

Are you out and about in Canberra or heading there for some time out, then check out this great exhibition.

Calliarts in July - Diaper and Illumination with Valerie Keevers

Dear Members and Followers,

Join Valerie as she takes us through two of her very special likes, diapering and illumination.

Diaper:

Diaper is any of a wide range of decorative patterns used in a variety of works of art, such as stained glass, heraldic shields, architecture, etc.

Illumination:

Means to brighten or lighten a handwritten page.

Materials List:

• A4 pad or reflex paper

• Tracing paper

• Ruler, 2 pencils and eraser

• Watercolours or Gouache

• Small pointed brush and mixing brushes

• 2 water jars

• Gothic capital sheet if you have one.

Date: Saturday, 8 July 2023

Time: 1.00pm – 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

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

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.

Calliarts - And We are Back

Dear Members and Followers,

With the gradual easing of restrictions we are back in operation though with a strict COVID-19 plan in place.
You will need to register for a place in the class to ensure you are able to participate (we don't want to have to turn you away), we are also encouraging payment of the class fee via direct deposit.

Please contact us at southscribes@yahoo.com.au to register and for banking details.

Copperplate Part 2

CALLIARTS 11 July 2020

Tutor:  Glenis Sheather

It seems such a long time since the Copperplate Part 1 Calliarts and I hope those of you who attended that workshop have been using the period of isolation to do some practice.  The opening of Sylvania Hall means we can now hold the second workshop, where we will concentrate on the beautiful capital letters of this graceful script.  While it would be advisable to have attended Copperplate Part 1 before embarking on Part 2, people who were unable to do that workshop can come along and receive some tuition on the lower case letters.
 

MATERIALS LIST

·        Bleedproof Layout Pad, preferably A4 size.

·        Elbow nib* and pen holder OR a straight pointed nib and an oblique pen holder.

·        Ink (Chinese or similar) or gouache of your choice.

·        2B or HB pencil

·        Usual Calligraphy Gear.  However, you will not need a slope board.

*Elbow nibs can be purchased at Eckersley’s.  If you are unable to buy one I will have some for sale on the day for $3.50 each.  Please have the correct money.

Copyrighted Glenis Sheather

Copyrighted Glenis Sheather

Calliarts - Japanese Cards Wrap Up

Dear Members and Followers,

Well we had another very good roll up of people for this month's calliarts with Penny Laver and it was good to see some new faces. The new participants saw the What's On Entry, were from Pat's class or saw it listed on the blog. In total we had sixteen people come along for the afternoon.

This afternoon saw us creating a padded Japanese card with mice on it. Penny had created stylised patterns for the mice and we cut out bodies and ears. We then attached the body patterns to very then foam on one side and Japanese paper on the other. Or a contrast paper, if you listened carefully to the instructions. Carefully we then sniped into the one centimetre allowance right around the body so that we could neatly fold up the Japanese and glue. That was the tricky bit, as the piece needed to be glued down and then more glue applied to the top so that the next fold could take place. As I said tricky, but we all seemed to get there.

Next were the ears. These were a lot simpler as you just needed just to cut out the pattern and attach it to either contrast paper or Japanese paper depending on how you are organised your mouse bodies.

Then we needed to attached the bodies to the mounts of our cards. Having completed this we attached ears to bodies and then proceeded to attach whiskers and tails to the mice for a total picture. All the cards looked very cute as you will see from the pictures below.

Some of the participants went on to create more cards which were very inspiring.

Thank you to Penny for a great afternoon.

P.S. Remember that the next Calliarts afternoon is on 8 August where we will be learning Neuland!

Alison's work

Meril's

 

Calliart - Quilted Japanese Cards

Dear Members and Followers,

Our next meeting and Calliarts is on 11 July and as always it is shaping up to be a great day.

Penny Laver will be taking be taking us through Quilted Japanese Cards

Quilted Japanese Cards
These cards are based on washi paper quilting which is a traditional Japanese doll making technique called “kime-komi” and Oshie. Pieces of Japanese “kimono” fabric and cotton batting are used to create beautiful doll pictures. Individual parts of the image are formed by creating small “shaped” puffy pillows and then piece together to form the final picture.
This picture shows an example but we shall not be doing anything so grand!

A previous card by Penny in this style.

A previous card by Penny in this style

This technique can easily be adapted to make some beautiful cards. We shall be making the card shown below which is a great card for children. If time permits we shall try a couple of other patterns.