April Calliarts - Neuland

Dear Members and Followers, 

 This month yours truly is swapping her blogging and president's hats to tutor Neuland. The Neuland script is a chunky typeface designed by Rudolph Koch in the 1920’s and calligraphers and lettering artists still use it in a variety of ways today. Neuland letters are excellent to draw, cut, layer and outline, with this in mind, the first half of the Calliart will be dedicated to learning the script while the second half will be spent exploring ways you can use it. 

Materials List: 

 · Chisel edge nibs – a variety of sizes · Usual Calligraphy Gear (Ink and/or gouache, Layout pad, Ruler, Graphite pencil and eraser, etc.) · Tracing paper · Carpenter’s pencil (or similar broad edge pencil) · Watercolour pencils (12 pack) · Coloured pencils (12 pack) · Some fine pointed paint brushes – e.g., 0, 00, 000 (bring along what you have) · Fine-line waterproof black marker * · Fine-line white marker* · Stencil knife or similar to cut out letters (very pointed small scissors will suffice if you do not want to use a knife) · Cutting mat · A piece of black card (A4 is fine, this is to make a card with) · A piece of coloured paper (can be wrapping paper, Japanese paper, etc.) *Officeworks varieties are excellent. 

Date: Saturday, 8th April 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

Calliarts - 8 August 2015

Dear Members and Followers,

Yours truly is taking the August calliarts, the script is Neuland.

Here is the materials list so you are all organised for the afternoon.

Materials list -

• Usual calligraphy kit (A3 or A4 bond layout pad, ink, pens or chisel edge marker 5mm, ruler, eraser,) - if you want to copy my letters from the exemplar you will need to include a pen with a 5mm nib (Brause 5mm, William Mitchell size 0 or Speedball C size 0)
• Tracing paper, at least 2 sheets of A4
• HB and 2B pencils
• Coloured Pencils, Water Colour Pencils and Metallic Coloured Pencils (if you have them and want to work on black paper - the metallic coloured pencils are very striking)
• Some good paper any colour, any size (you may finish up with a completed master piece) include some black if you have some (miTentes is fine)
• A small cutting knife, just in case you become inspired
• Water jar and brushes if you are using Water Colour Pencils

 If you wish to create larger letters bring along an automatic, coit or parallel pen.