Tutor: Mary Noble
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Investigate the full potential of these sturdy, accessible cartridge pens to explore lively calligraphy in many different scripts. Play with colour combinations & blending and see what happens when you combine thick & thin strokes. Pilot Parallel Pens are essentially fountain pens with broad edge nibs, ideal for free flow writing as well as more careful work. It’s helpful to have contrasting sizes of the pens but beginners can manage with one.
The Italic hand is ideal for these experiments as it’s adaptable for fast and slow speeds of writing and variations, but we’ll also focus on free capitals. Writing on the narrow edge gives us a thin line that contrasts well with the broad edge that’s the pen’s primary function. If you hold one pen nib against another they exchange inks and you can play with streaky effects, too.
Those with Italic experience will want to try more advanced techniques of combining the thin and thick line for lively and three-dimensional effects.
Skills & Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee.
If required, all 6 sizes of pen are available to purchase at the school for £9 each and packs of 12 multi-coloured cartidges for £2.80
Students Please Bring
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 beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Investigate the full potential of these sturdy, accessible cartridge pens to explore lively calligraphy in many different scripts. Play with colour combinations & blending and see what happens when you combine thick & thin strokes. Pilot Parallel Pens are essentially fountain pens with broad edge nibs, ideal for free flow writing as well as more careful work. It’s helpful to have contrasting sizes of the pens but beginners can manage with one.
The Italic hand is ideal for these experiments as it’s adaptable for fast and slow speeds of writing and variations, but we’ll also focus on free capitals. Writing on the narrow edge gives us a thin line that contrasts well with the broad edge that’s the pen’s primary function. If you hold one pen nib against another they exchange inks and you can play with streaky effects, too.
Those with Italic experience will want to try more advanced techniques of combining the thin and thick line for lively and three-dimensional effects.
Skills & Techniques Covered
- Essential points of Italic hand,
- How to liven up for freer results
- The ups and downs of Parallel pens
- Exploring colour mixes
- Combining thick & thin strokes
- Arranging on the page
- Nib cleaning
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee.
If required, all 6 sizes of pen are available to purchase at the school for £9 each and packs of 12 multi-coloured cartidges for £2.80
Students Please Bring
- Pilot Parallel pen(s) 3mm, 3.8mm or 4.5mm. One is sufficient but you may want more if you love them!
- (Optional, the extreme sizes, 1.5mm, 2.4mm or 6mm)
- Selection of ink cartridges of various colours (new packs of the pens come with red and black, but a pack of mixed colours would be good).
- Pad of Marker paper (aka Manga paper,) or layout paper, and some cartridge paper (tutor will have some available)
- Ruler, pencil
- Short quotations to write
- Kitchen roll
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.