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.

Calliarts - All Things Golden

 Dear Members and Followers,

Add a little bling to your winter and come join us for the June Calliarts. 

This month we will be explore gold and how it works with your calligraphy.

Date: 8 June 2024

Time: 12.30pm

Tutor: Valerie Keevers

Where: Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania (Near Southgate Shopping Centre)

Cost: Members - $20.00 - Guests and Visitors - $25.00

Bookings Essential: southscribes@yahoo.com.au

Materials List:

     ·        Bring whatever you have listed below that you might have tucked away in a drawer.  Do not

      worry if you do not have anything as I can supply at a small cost.

·        Any gold paint, foil gold or coloured, transfer gold, loose gold leaf, Schlag any colour.

      Sakura gold powder, Schmincke gold or copper powder.

·        Liquitex, Instacol, Ormaline, PVC, Gum Ammoniac, Miniatum.  Craft glue and glue sick.

·        Small containers, couple of brushes made of hair, not good ones.

·        Usual pencil eraser & ruler.

·        Small pair scissors.

·        1 medium size chisel pen.

·        Tracing paper. 

1. To make the folded booklet, please take a piece of A4 Canson paper (any colour) and fold it evenly in 3 sections in both directions.  Cut on the 1/3 lines in both directions to the arrow as shown below.  

This can be done in class if concerned but preferably bring to class.

2.   Cut 9 pieces of hot press watercolour paper (smooth) 7cm X 4cm.  These pieces will be glued in the booklet when the gold work is done.

June Calliarts - Gotta Get Gothic

Dear Members and Followers,

Join us on the 10 June to visit or revisit Gothic calligraphy with Valerie Keevers.

Gothic calligraphy in general is a style of calligraphy that has been around since the Middle Ages, and is often called "Blackletter" and while there are variations on the hand, it is a very ornate letter form. It is most recognised as the mast head for the Sydney Morning Herald.

Materials List:

• A3 or A4 practice pad. Reflex paper also okay

• No 2 William Mitchell chisel nib and holder or equivalent

• Duo felt pen or parallel pen if you do not have chisel nibs

• Pencil, ruler and eraser

• Ink, w/colours or gouache

• Short quote

• Small piece smooth w/colour paper or canson paper, approximately 18cm long by 5cm wide

Date: Saturday, 10 June 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

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.

Weaving Some Calligraphy Magic - Calliarts for June

 Dear Members and Followers,

While it may be cold outside, we haven't stopped bringing you another exciting Calliarts afternoon, this time with Glenis Sheather, who will be taking us through the fun of Weaver Script.

When we consider the use of pointed pens we immediately think of Copperplate and its variations.  However, a pointed pen can be used for many more scripts and one of these is Weaver Script.  This fun script was designed by American calligrapher, the late Gwen Weaver.  The script has only 26 letters (no capitals) so can be easily leant in a three-hour workshop.  The aim of this Calliarts is to have a fun and relaxing afternoon playing with some interesting letters. 

Materials List: 

Pointed nibs - either straight nibs in an oblique holder or an elbow nib in a straight holder

Layout pad

Plastic ruler

HB or 2B pencil

Ink or gouache of your choice

Usual Calligraphy gear

When - Saturday June 12 2021 - 1pm to 4pm

Tutor - Glenis Sheather

Where - Sylvania Community Hall, Canberra Road, Sylvania

Cost - $15.00

Bookings - Essential - please email southscribes@yahoo.com.au to book and payment details.

Calliarts June 11 - Miniature Books with Valerie Keevers.

Dear Members and Followers,

The afternoon calliarts for this month is Miniature Books with Valerie Keevers.

This little circle hinged book is great for notes, little presents, collated photos of things that interest, quick sketching etc.  It has a great advantage in that it is easy to add and remove pages, works well in this square format and as a rectangular book for long pages that fold out.  Simple and quick to make it is handy to have in your armoury of small books.

Materials for Hinged Books.

• Covers.  2 pieces of card 12cm X 12cm heavy enough to protect inner pages.

• Card covering.  Any paper suitable eg. Marbled, Japanese, paste etc. 2 pieces 15 cm X 15 cm.

• Pages.  Minimum of 8 pages 11cm X 11 cm.  Reflex or lined paper 80gsm, Canson  paper, Watercolour 110 gsm or any paper, any colour you have, depends on what use the book will have. Eg. Notebook, art book, photos. 
  

• End papers.  Can be same as cover paper, pages or contrasting colour.

• Hinges 2 will be supplied at $1.00 cost.

• Usual stuff.

Pencil, ruler, shiny paper for glueing, glue brush and PVA if you have.

Bone folder, Leather Punch (can use mine, don't buy one) steel ruler,

Sharp craft knife and small cutting mat unless you prepare book pages etc. at home.

Scissors and some grease proof paper.

If paper and card prepared at home you will have time to make several books of any size, so bring more papers, card etc.  I have four sizes for you to see, 22x16cm, 18x12cm, 11.5x10.5cm and 6.5x5.5cm.  The largest book requires 3 hinges as will any book larger than this.

Modern Carolingian Workshop Report

Dear Members and Followers,

Glenis provides us with a great report on the full workshop in June:

MODERN CAROLINGIAN WORKSHOP

Saturday, 20 June 2015

Tutor:  Patricia Moody

On a cool, winter day 14 students were very snug inside a small function room at Sutherland’s Club on East, where we spent the day exploring the Carolingian hand and some script variations.

Pat started the workshop by giving us a brief history of the script and showing us examples from books, as well as her own pieces and those of members Valerie Keevers and Penny Laver.

Then it was time for us to start practising a French style Carolingian, complete with the characteristic small body height, tall ascenders, heavy clubbed serifs and wider interlinear spacing.  This was followed by making our x-height slightly larger and using small entry serifs.  Writing with a 10^o slope I found myself lapsing into Italic letters at this stage.  More concentration needed!  Our final variation was to write the letters sans serif, with the suggestion that we also compress or extend the letters.  These combinations gave a modern look to the script.

With time running out we wrote some prose on better quality paper.  Our show and tell display gave us all a chance to see what everyone else had been doing.  Carolingian written on paper with washed backgrounds looked particularly effective.

Armed with a large supply of handouts we have no excuse for not continuing to play with further variations at home, including trying English Carolingian on which the modern Foundational hand is based.

Thank you Pat for an enjoyable workshop and for introducing some, and reacquainting others, with this lovely, versatile script.

Glenis Sheather

Calligraphy Southscribes, Inc. is kindly supported by Sutherland Shire Council