April Calliarts - Eastern-Style Alphabet

 Dear Members and Followers,

Take a trip east with our April Calliarts afternoon and enjoy an Eastern-Style Alphabet

On 13 April 2024 where our tutor will be Glenis Sheather.

This Eastern-Style alphabet is inspired by the one featured in “The Art of Calligraphy” series.  Based on the Italic Script, this flowing alphabet has been given a modern, Eastern appearance by extending the width of the letters and elongating the flourishes.  Both minuscules and majuscules will be covered in this Calliarts workshop.  If there is time you may wish to produce a small piece of work.

Materials List: 

Usual calligraphy gear

Nib size – William Mitchell 2, Speedball 3, Brause 2 or similar

Layout pad

Ink or gouache of your choice

An A4 sheet of tracing paper

An A5 sheet of good quality paper and a short verse if you want to produce a piece of work.

March Calliarts - Roses and Transparent Flower Techniques – with Vesna Mircevski

 Dear Members and Followers,

We will spend time learning how to paint Roses and Transparent Watercolour Flowers. Painting florals

alongside your work can enhance the overall design. You can use these techniques for poems, quotes,

cards or envelopes. A step-by-step demonstration showing both processes will be shown on the day.

If you have a quote or poem that you have written and would like to add a floral design as per below,

please bring it along with you.

 

Roses and Leaves

We will learn how to paint roses and leaves on paper. Combined with other mediums, this technique can also be used on candles, fabric, glass, soap and timber.

Materials List:

• Jo Sonja paints. Paints and palette will be supplied for the lesson. You will be able to take the palette home.
• Brushes:
• Flat brush, short hair, taklon in the following sizes; 1/8 (3mm), 3/16 (6mm), 3/8 (1cm) or similar sizes
• Angle Shader brush, taklon, size 3/8 or similar. Only if you have
• Small round brush
• Stylus
• Paper: watercolour paper, 300gsm, hot pressed and/or coloured card

Transparent Watercolour Flowers

We will use watercolours to paint transparent layers of petals, creating a flower that is light and

modern.

Materials List:

• Mop brush, size 3/0 or similar. Alternative, you can use round brush, size 6 or 8 or similar size
•  Watercolour paints of your choice. You will need watercolour paint for the flowers and leaves
• Mixing brush
• Small white ceramic bowl, eg for sauces
• Pipette
• Water jars
• Paint palette
• Paper towels
• Glass pen, optional
• One floral pattern will be provided on watercolour paper.
• Feel free to use your own pattern.
• If you would like to add a quote,
• please bring your usual calligraphy gear.

When: 9 March 2024 1 - 4pm

Where: Sylvania Community Centre - Canberra Road, Sylvania

Cost: Members - $20.00 Non-Members/Guests - $25.00

Bookings Essential - southscribes@yahoo.com.au

February 2023 Calliarts - Ideal Italic

 Dear Members and Followers,

It is start of a new calligraphy year and we love bringing you Italic as our first script of the year.

The Italic script is one of the most adaptable and useful scripts in your kit bag of calligraphy

knowledge. For those with only a little experience we will look at the basic components that make it

Italic. Those with more experience will work on several extensions including a very spiky version. This

Calliart afternoon in February will get the year off to a good start re-enforcing what you might know

and taking you to areas you are not so familiar with. 

Materials list:

 A3 or A4 practice pad

 Ruler and pencil

 Ink – Black or Walnut

 Gouache or Water colour paint

 Any make of Chisel pen in several sizes. Manuscript, Windsor Newton, Speedball etc

 A5 or A4 piece of watercolour or calligraphy paper

 A Small quote

Date: Saturday, 10 February 2024

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

Payment Options: Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque. When booking, please advise

which payment option you will be making.

November Calliarts - It's Ribbons on Your Paper

 Dear Members and Followers,

Put ribbons in your hair or around your old oak tree but have you tried ribbon writing? No! Then come join us for a fun afternoon to get you in the mood for Christmas.

So gather your graphite and coloured pencils in readiness for what promises to be a fun afternoon of “ribbon writing”.  These drawn letters will look as though they have been formed by twisted ribbon.  They can be used for greeting cards, envelopes, place cards and decorative headings and, with the festive season quickly approaching, we will concentrate on Christmas themes.  This workshop will be a great opportunity to get your creative juices flowing as you play with pencils, watercolour pencils and/or gouache or water colours to create a small project or two.

Materials List:

 ·       Layout pad, either A3 or A4

·        Graphite pencil

·        Ruler

·        Eraser

·        A sheet of tracing paper

·        Your choice of coloured pencils, watercolour pencils, gouache or water colours

·        Fine paint brushes and water jars if using watercolour pencils, gouache or water colours.

·        Black waterproof fine liner pen.

·        A couple of small pieces of good quality paper (no larger than A5 size)

·        Steel ruler, cutting knife and cutting mat.

Date:               Saturday,  11^th November, 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

Payment Options: Preferred Method of Payment - Direct Deposit, Cash on the day or Cheque.  When booking, please advise which payment option you will be making.

October Calliarts - Road Mapping

 Dear Members and Followers,

This month, we are road mapping with Cherrie Grant.

Think about a theme that you could work on and what medium you would like to work with and come and join us for the afternoon.

Materials List:

·        Normal calligraphy gear - refer to Cathy Sayer’s Back to Basics

·        Script you like or have used recently

·        Nib to suit your preferred Script

·        Pigment liner -Uniball, Copic etc.

·        A4 tracing paper - it needs to be able to have pencil erased several times

·        Paper towel

·        Items to colour with for example - pencils, crayons, textures, watercolours or acrylics. Whatever you          have, or want to work with

·        A4 Watercolour paper-med/smooth

Project Theme:

 

               ·     Celebrate a life

·    Announce a move

·    A Easter hunt

·    Christmas card

·    Primary school to high school

·    From Working 9-5 to Retirement

·    A milestone in your life or someone close to you

 

Have some pics to use to draw from

Kids colouring books

A brief quote - 5 words or less

A willingness to be adventurous creatively

NOTE: Your work is not entering a competition - It's an invitation for inspiration.

All levels and newbies are most welcome. Bring a play date, a friend, family member or a colleague.

I'll do a quick neurographic exercise to show you how your brain can solve a problem.

 

Date:               Saturday, 14th October, 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 - 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

August Calliarts - Back to Basics

 Dear Members and Followers,

This workshop is aimed at our newer members and those wanting to remind themselves of good calligraphic practices.

While we learn a hand or technique each month, many of us have not covered the basics of calligraphy or may like a refresher, so we will be looking at calligraphic terms and what they mean in a practical sense, how to use our pens and inks and everything in-between. We really will be getting back to basics, so think of this as Calligraphy 101. We will also work through a series of exercises to help you understand more about this art form and its associated terms.

It was suggested at our Meeting last month that if any Member who wishes to come on the 12th but do their own Calligraphy work on the day instead of the Back to Basics, catch up with other members and a cup or two of tea/coffee that a fee of $10 to help cover Hall Hire costs would be charged instead of the $20 for this Session.

Materials List:

·        Pen holders

·        A variety of sizes of nibs – small to large (if possible one brand, if you don’t have one brand, don’t worry         but you must have a range of sizes, 5 different size nibs is excellent)

·        Ink or gouache – different colours

·        Gouache – bring a form of palate to mix them on

·        Ink – bring small container/s to decant your ink into

·        Water containers

·        Brushes to load your gouache with (if you are using gouache)

·        Ruler

·        Eraser

·        Graphite pencil

·        Layout pad

·        Notebook & Pen to take notes

·        1 quote that means something to you, as you’ll be using it a lot

·        If using Artline Calligraphy felt-tip pens please bring a range of sizes

 

 Date:                 Saturday, 12 August 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