Calliarts - Untangled Letters - November 2024

 Dear Members and Followers,

This calliarts will see us decorating our letters to use for gift tags, bookmarks, cards with the idea of developing ideas for Christmas.

Materials List:

• Tracing paper.

• Graphite pencil/s (propelling great).

• Coloured and/or watercolour pencils.

• Fineliners (I use pigma micron black) – MUST be waterproof.

• Eraser.

• Ruler.

• Fine pointed brushes - 000, 00, 0, 1, 2 (whatever you have, don't rush and buy them).

• Water jar.

• Paper stump or cotton buds.

• Watercolour paper – bookmark size pieces and coaster size pieces (bring several).

C.J. Sayer

Date:     Saturday, 9^th November, 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. 

Calliarts - October 2024 - Japanese Stab Book Binding

 Dear Members and Followers,

This month Valerie is going to show us how to make small notebooks finished off with Japanese Stab Binding.

Traditional Japanese Stab Binding was made with a material cover.  Today we are going to make a small non-traditional book with a paper covered card cover, or possibly just the light card cover, the choice will be yours.  These little books are great gifts as notebooks, personal jotters or just for filling with your notes, alphabet designs or drawings.

N.B. Unless you choose to make the pages in light watercolour paper they are not really suitable to wet paint designs.

Materials Requirements:

PAPER:  for the pages you will need 3-4 sheets of A4 size computer paper about 90 gsm. Or any light weight paper any colour.  (Watercolour paper see note above.)

LIGHT CARD:  For the book cover you will need Ix A4 piece of light card any colour.

WRAPPING PAPER:  For the book covering you will need 1x A4 wrapping paper, paste paper etc. any colour or design.  (Colour co-ordinated to page colour looks nice.)

NEEDLE:  1 strong sewing needle with a largish eye that can take the thread you use.

THREAD:  Fine crochet cotton, Cordonet twisted thread, Linen thread etc.  Thread can be any colour to match book or as contrast.  Thread needs to be fairly strong but not too bulky to pass through the holes.

GLUE STICK:  To glue wrapping paper to cover etc.

OTHER THINGS:  Cutting mat, sharp craft knife or Stanley knife, steel ruler, pencil.

Bring what you have of the following:

1.      Pin awl or carpenter awl.

2.      2 bull dog clips with jaws that will open about 1cm or more.

3.      Bees wax.

4.      Beads to decorate optional.

Date:     Saturday, 12^th October, 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. 

August Calliarts - Pointed Gothic

 Dear Members and Followers,

If you like Gothic scripts, then this Calliarts workshop is for you.  The version of Pointed Gothic that I will be teaching is based on a 16^th Century Flemish hand.  It is written with a 50-60 degree pen angle, which gives a Gothic window shape to some letters.  It is an elegant hand, which lends itself to some flourishing.

Materials List:

Usual calligraphy gear

Broad Edge 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.

         Date:     Saturday, 10th August, 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.  

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.  

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.

State Library of Victoria Presents - World of the Book 2024

 Hello Members and Followers,

Worth a visit, I should think:

https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/world-of-the-book

Sacred Technologies: Calligraphy and Illumination in Practice

 Dear Members and Followers,

A free Keynote Lecture for the Vancouver School of Theology's 2024 Inter-Religious Studies Conference by Lettering Artist Georgia Angelopoulos.

Sacred Technologies: Calligraphy and Illumination in Practice

Tuesday, 21 May, 7 - 8:30pm PDT

(for us in eastern Australia, this is Wednesday, 22 May at 12 midday to 1:30 pm)

This presentation will be speaking to sacred writing traditions from the ancient Greek, early Christian and Byzantine worlds. The main premise is to illustrate threads of continuity in the writing of peoples, from antiquity to contemporary practices. In this lecture, Georgia will demonstrate how writing, or calligraphy, is art and how it, like illumination and the arts in general, have an ancient and beautiful lineage worthy of safeguarding at a time when modern technologies are quickly racing forward.

For more information or to register for the Zoom link visit:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sacred-technologies-calligraphy-and-illumination-in-practice-tickets-861710107127

Lecture abstract:

This presentation will be speaking to sacred writing traditions from the ancient Greek, early Christian and Byzantine worlds. My main premise is to illustrate threads of continuity in the writing of peoples, from antiquity to contemporary practices. In this lecture, I will demonstrate how writing, or calligraphy, is art and how it, like illumination and the arts in general, have an ancient and beautiful lineage worthy of safeguarding at a time when modern technologies are quickly racing forward. My discussion hopes to kindle a re-enchantment of this most important of cultural tools, showing how writing is still relevant even in a digital world. For example, many of the typefaces we use are designed by calligraphers and the practice of calligraphy, though always a niche activity, continues to grow in popularity. The importance of preserving handwriting is highlighted in schools, where children often learn to write with computers rather than with a pencil and paper. The loss of writing by hand raises some concerns about what kind of culture we would be advancing and what may be lost in our haste to give up the pen for the keyboard.

About Georgia Angelopoulos:

Georgia was introduced early on to calligraphy and illumination by schoolteachers in the British Arts & Crafts Revival Tradition and by family in Greece involved in the Arts. She is interested in historical letterforms, iconography and gilding. With a background in art history, Georgia considers writing practices as technologies that talk about the cultures that developed them. Her research enriches and deepens her practice as well as exploring and bridging the richness of cultural identity.