September Calliarts - Bend it like Bernd with Cherrie Grant

 Dear Members and Followers,

This September sees us looking at the designs of Adolf Bernd, a German born in 1909.

Fans of his designs are attracted to modern letter forms with decorative elements. He didn't use masking fluid but got a similar effect and with water colours there is a fresh result. 

His three main elements in his designs are:

• Subtle colours.
• White interlinear lines.
• The patters in the surrounding areas.

Materials List

Scripts – Neuland, Art Deco or Art Nouveau. Alphabets which have more weight to them – or look in our fabulous alphabet book in the library

Tracing paper – Office works has a Study Mate branded pad for under $5

0.5 – 1.0 Copic/Uni/Staedtler fine line marker / permanent fine liner black

Pencils – 2H, HB or F and pencil sharpener

Kneadable eraser & tombow eraser

Ruler

A3 x 300 gsm Smooth/Hot Pressed Watercolour (Arches, Fabriano, Hanumuele etc) . or 2 x A4 sheets we will leave a 2.5cm margin on the left hand margin. For binding into a book, if we have time.

Watercolour pencils / water-soluble graphite pencils (Derwent Graphitint) + plus colour swatches (if you have them)

Boku-Undo E-sumi Japanesque watercolour & plus colour swatch (if you have them)

Watercolour tubes or pans – professional/designer/artist grade is best especially when it comes to pigment. 3 warm & 3 cool colours. If you don’t know if they are warm or cool – in your internet browser search  …<is name of your paint colour a warm/cool colour?> if that fails feel free to contact me

some Colour suggestions are

Warm > Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow, Phthalo or Winsor Blue

Cool > Alizarin Red, Lemon Yellow, Ultramarine Blue

 

White ice block tray &  Palette

Water containers x 2

pipettes

Pointed brushes sizes 1, 2, 4 and 6 & mixing brushes

Rag or paper towel

Light pad

Bookings - southscribes@yahoo.com.au 

September Calliarts - Monoline Magic

 Dear Members and Followers,

This afternoon we will work with an Art Nouveau monoline typography hand, which will be fun and in the moment.

Art Nouveau was considered to be the period from approximately the late 1880’s to the First World War and was inspired by plant forms and nature, taking organic subjects, and turning them into sophisticated, sinuous, and flowing patterns.

Materials List:
• Layout pad
• Ruler and small ruler
• Eraser
• Black paper
• White gel pen
• Speedball B series nibs and penholder (but only if you have them)
• Graphite pencil
• Tracing paper
• Artline black fineliners (you will need at least two sizes – smaller 0.2 or 0.3 and larger 0.6) *
• Gold Metallic Pen or Gold Gel Pen*
• White or metallic inks (if you are using nibs)
• Some coloured pencils
• If you would like to make some bookmarks or a postcard, bring better quality paper. #
*Officeworks or Newsagent pens
#Light coloured to work with black & gold – i.e., Eckersley’s has A4 Fabriano sheets

Date: Saturday, 9 September 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

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.

One of Members Exhibits

 Dear Members and Followers,

The committee of Calligraphy Southscribes, Inc. have kindly allowed me to post a group exhibition I am participating in. You can view it person or online.

Regards,

Cathy

Word A Month - September - Rhythm

Dear Members and Followers,

As you will remember we are currently running a Word A Month project and the word to be brought along to September was Rhythm. Did we have some rhythm? Check out below and see!

September Meeting Summary

Dear Members and Followers,

Here is the latest from the committee:

CALLIGRAPHY SOUTHSCIBES SUMMARY for September 2015
Workshops: There are 5 participants in the current Rustic lettering course and 4 bookings for the Jerusalem hand on 17th October. There are no bookings at present for the next lettering course, Colour Calligraphy commencing on the 21st October, but this has not been advertised yet. Meril is away from 28th September to 11th November so Pat has agreed to take workshop bookings/enquiries for that period. (email president@calligraphysouthscribes.com.au)
Valerie will be away for the workshop scheduled for 21st November, “Pen Gilding and Other Techniques” as this was an extra workshop it was agreed that it would be cancelled.
The tutors for the for the next lettering course, Colour Calligraphy commencing on the 21st October will be Pat for weeks 1,2 and 3 and Gloria for weeks 4,5 and 6.
I do encourage you to book in for the Colour Calligraphy course, the correct use of colour is something we all need to be proficient at as it can really enhance a piece of work as well as being fun. We have two expert tutors to guide you through this 6 weeks.
Workshop Bookings: Please email your booking and payment information (including the code) to Meril Bowyer at meril@bowyer.com.au or post to PO Box 714 Caringbah 1495. Direct debit details are available if you prefer to pay electronically.
Magazine
Our first e-magazine has been sent out which has been a great success, congratulations to Pat and Cathy for a job well done. The next magazine will be in December. Penny has agreed to assist in the next one as Cathy no longer has time to do it. Please look out for any articles, good web sites etc that might be worth putting in. It is your magazine and can’t happen without people contributing. Email suggestions/articles to Penny plaver100@gmail.com
Membership: the membership remains at 24 financial members and 5 life members.
Blog: There were 710 page views this month, most being for Calliart followed by workshops. With The USA having the most viewers after Australia.
Social Activities: A tour of the QVB was held on Monday 14th with 8 people attending, it was most interesting and we had a most enjoyable lunch afterwards. Do try to attend these outings as it is a great way to get together on an informal basis.
25th Anniversary 2016. A letter and a short survey will be sent to present and some past members. This invites them to take part in our celebrations next year. If you have any contact details for any past members that you think may be interested please let Valerie know. secretary@calligraphysouthscribes.com
Joint weekend away with an allied group. Following a very productive and enjoyable weekend away at Youthworks Pat suggested that we could consider combining with this group to have a similar weekend(s) next year, as we are too small a group to do this on own. This could again be at Youthworks (in the National Park) or The Tops at Stanwell Tops.
It was agreed that this was a good idea and we will keep it in mind for next year.
Joint Exhibition with Continuum
 The venue for this is Club on East from Thursday 14th April to Sunday 17th April with no cost for hire.
 We will need to run our own roster to be present from 10am to 4pm on each day except the Saturday which is a committee meeting day and the organisers have been advised of this
 Works can be NFS, whether they must be framed is yet to be advised.
 We must organise hanging and contribute to the cost of the screens.
 There will be no commission taken by the club, just 10% by Southscribes.
 Can enter any works, there is no theme.
 The person on duty needs to count the number of visitors.
 We are able to use our own tablecloth.
 Continuum will advertise in the National Trust magazine as we are under their umbrella
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CSS We had an informal discussion as about what we would do should the Society wind up at some future date. This will be formally be discussed at the October Committee meeting with a possibility of a special meeting following the AGM 2016
Calliart: the next Calliart is 10th October “Pens and their Uses” with Valerie – a very good one to attend.
WORD OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER IS FRIENDSHIP – a bit of a challenge as it is a long word, start thinking, we had some great ones for rhythm.
Penny Laver
Minutes Secretary
Calligraphy Souithscribes

Calliarts - September

Dear Members and Followers,

Yes, it's that time for me to be reminding you that the next meeting and a great Calliarts afternoon is soon approaching.

This month we are going to get creative and create a book or two. To tantalise you:

PAMPHLET BOOK WITH FOLDED COVER

Design Courtesy of Jean Riley

We will be making a small pamphlet sewn book with folded covers which require no gluing. This little book would be suitable as a notebook to keep in a handbag or pocket. The finished size is 12cm x 10cm. Although it is not glued the construction is quite sturdy.

The first photo is the completed book open and the second with the cover closed

MATERIALS

Paper for text block: an A1 size sheet of paper, about 120gsm, cartridge paper is ideal and cheap, but use any you like provided it is not too thick.

Covers. 2 sheets of A3 size very light card, about 160gsm, (Mei-teintes will work well) in two toning or contrasting colours. If you have it bring a third sheet in case we have time to do a second book

Decoration: If you wish you can add some Japanese paper or other decoration to the covers.

Other equipment

·         The largest cutting mat you have

·         Craft knife with a sharp blade.

·         Pencil

·         Ruler – 50 or 60cm if you have one or the longest you have, preferably a steel one for cutting.

·         Eraser

·         Thread – embroidery thread is fine or something similar.

·         Sewing needle – not to small – one that will easily fit your thread through the eye.

·         Small scissors

·         Bone folder

·         Awl or similar to put the sewing holes in your text block – a large needle will be OK.

·         Small size bulldog clip x 2

We may have time to do a second book and you will have sufficient paper from your A1 sheet for this.