Tutor: Mary Noble
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Italic is the most popular calligraphic script owing to its flowing nature and adaptability for expressive works. Start from scratch or revise if you’re rusty, using traditional broad-edged dip pens to create some beautiful writing.
Starting with some pen pattern-making to get the pens working and flowing properly, we’ll practise regular strokes to develop a rhythm for writing. Italic forms depend on a ‘family resemblance’ of letters, so there will be much emphasis on good arch-formation - how the strokes are joined, a distinctive feature which underpins a majority of the letters.
Putting the writing to practical use is what motivates us to keep going and hone our skills, so we’ll make labels, signage or arrange a short quotation. For those with past experience, this is your chance to lose bad habits and aim to improve and complete something to be proud of.
Pens, ink & paper will be provided for use, with the option to buy the pen if you wish.
Please let us know if you are left-handed, as there are left-oblique pens available.
Skills/Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not covered in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £4 payable to the tutor during the day. The items you will need to bring with you are listed below.
Please Bring With You
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
Click here for Timings & Refreshments
This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Italic is the most popular calligraphic script owing to its flowing nature and adaptability for expressive works. Start from scratch or revise if you’re rusty, using traditional broad-edged dip pens to create some beautiful writing.
Starting with some pen pattern-making to get the pens working and flowing properly, we’ll practise regular strokes to develop a rhythm for writing. Italic forms depend on a ‘family resemblance’ of letters, so there will be much emphasis on good arch-formation - how the strokes are joined, a distinctive feature which underpins a majority of the letters.
Putting the writing to practical use is what motivates us to keep going and hone our skills, so we’ll make labels, signage or arrange a short quotation. For those with past experience, this is your chance to lose bad habits and aim to improve and complete something to be proud of.
Pens, ink & paper will be provided for use, with the option to buy the pen if you wish.
Please let us know if you are left-handed, as there are left-oblique pens available.
Skills/Techniques Covered
- Familiarity with the dip pens
- Making pen patterns for rhythm in writing
- Writing the letters in family groups
- Achieving good arch-forms
- Letter-and word-spacing
- Arranging on the page
Materials
Materials are not covered in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £4 payable to the tutor during the day. The items you will need to bring with you are listed below.
Please Bring With You
- Pencil, ruler, eraser
- Any pens you already have, but don’t buy any
- Some short quotes to write
- Your reading glasses!
We advise that you do not buy any materials required for a course more than two weeks in advance, because occasionally a course is cancelled due to low enrolment.