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Italic: Formal to Funky…
“Italic Formal to Funky” starts with an in-depth review of the formal Italic alphabet. Individual attention will help to sharpen your italic hand. We will study each of the components [...]
Foundation Meets Bone…
The Foundation alphabet was aptly named by Edward Johnston as it is based on Carolingian, an early Humanist Roman hand and became the “foundation” for a calligraphy revival in the [...]
Fine Tuning the Fundamentals…
When you sit down to do a calligraphic piece, do you have to refer to an exemplar to remember how to write an alphabet? Are you happy and confident with [...]
Art for Non-Artists…
In calligraphic interpretation of words, we sometimes need to create a mood or enhance a theme, add excitement, power, serenity or drama to our calligraphy. Have you ever been stumped [...]
Big Bad Bone…
The Bone alphabet is one of my favorites because I’m never quite sure how it is going to come out. It has a wonderfully sensual and playful quality because of [...]
Foundational…
The Foundational alphabet is a beautiful, legible, very versatile and very usable hand based on Roman forms. The name foundational was coined by Edward Johnston as it was his feeling [...]
Gothic…
The term “Gothic” is a very broad classification for many types of blackletter alphabets, which depend upon time of inception and country of origin. Each has its own personality and [...]
Italic…
Beginning Italic… Have you always wanted to write beautiful invitations, greeting cards, gifts and correspondence? Italics is a beautiful, flowing and consistent style of calligraphic lettering. It is a good [...]
Playful Letters: Dance of the Pen
So, OK – you’ve been studying calligraphy for a while. You’ve disciplined yourself to maintain pen angle, slant, pressure, proportion and spacing. Your letterforms are respectable, but they look stiff. [...]
Neuland, Cuneiform & Beyond…
This course will cover 3 wonderful alphabets and the skills to create endless variations. We’ll begin with the modified Neuland, written basically at a zero pen angle, then the Rudolf [...]