Tutor: Sharon Zeugin
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This three-day, onsite workshop is suitable for all levels including beginners with a little lettering experience
Workshop Details
There are times in our calligraphic journey when we might ask the question, “what next?”
After having achieved a modicum of skill and success, our letters beautiful and well-applauded, we may experience a nagging feeling that there is something missing. But What? Where once we had clarity of vision, now our direction seems vague, unclear. Or maybe we are simply curious about using mixed media and trying a more intuitive, experimental approach to our creative work. Whatever one’s level of experience or skill, this workshop offers a “re-visioning” opportunity for calligraphers to discover for themselves where their direction may lie.
The only prerequisite is a willingness to embrace an attitude of discovery and surprise in letting go of pre-conceived ideas of what kind of art you will make. My hope for all participants in our co-created atmosphere of safety and trust is that “maybe we’ll find direction around some corner where it’s been waiting to meet us.” *(Grateful Dead)
We will be making a series of improvisational artworks on larger pieces of paper, some of which will be torn down to make a journal of our personal class odyssey. Using a “Heroine’s Journey” as a conceptual framework, the class will embark on a time of symbol and mark making, writing, drawing, calligraphy and painting, connected to our direct and immediate personal experience. Participants can “revision” their ideas of calligraphic art-making by exploring writing as gesture, line and pattern, while using nature, pictures, found objects and even one’s own words as inspiration. We will veer off the familiar calligraphic path for the purpose of exploration and discovery, to make deeper connections with ourselves, our art and the world around us.
Skills & Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. A small workshop fee will cover acrylic paints, palettes, gesso, a goodie bag and handouts payable to the tutor on the workshop - please bring cash only.
Students Please Bring
DON”T WORRY IF YOU DON”T HAVE ALL OF THIS STUFF. THE TUTOR WILL SHARE 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 three-day, onsite workshop is suitable for all levels including beginners with a little lettering experience
Workshop Details
There are times in our calligraphic journey when we might ask the question, “what next?”
After having achieved a modicum of skill and success, our letters beautiful and well-applauded, we may experience a nagging feeling that there is something missing. But What? Where once we had clarity of vision, now our direction seems vague, unclear. Or maybe we are simply curious about using mixed media and trying a more intuitive, experimental approach to our creative work. Whatever one’s level of experience or skill, this workshop offers a “re-visioning” opportunity for calligraphers to discover for themselves where their direction may lie.
The only prerequisite is a willingness to embrace an attitude of discovery and surprise in letting go of pre-conceived ideas of what kind of art you will make. My hope for all participants in our co-created atmosphere of safety and trust is that “maybe we’ll find direction around some corner where it’s been waiting to meet us.” *(Grateful Dead)
We will be making a series of improvisational artworks on larger pieces of paper, some of which will be torn down to make a journal of our personal class odyssey. Using a “Heroine’s Journey” as a conceptual framework, the class will embark on a time of symbol and mark making, writing, drawing, calligraphy and painting, connected to our direct and immediate personal experience. Participants can “revision” their ideas of calligraphic art-making by exploring writing as gesture, line and pattern, while using nature, pictures, found objects and even one’s own words as inspiration. We will veer off the familiar calligraphic path for the purpose of exploration and discovery, to make deeper connections with ourselves, our art and the world around us.
Skills & Techniques Covered
- Intuitive approach to creating Contour drawing/sketching Calligraphy as mark, line and pattern.
- Amplifying handwriting as a “script of our own”
- Composition: line, color, shape, marks, pattern
- User friendly book
- Painting on tyvek
- Mark making
- Layering and painting
- Possibly paste paper technique
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. A small workshop fee will cover acrylic paints, palettes, gesso, a goodie bag and handouts payable to the tutor on the workshop - please bring cash only.
Students Please Bring
DON”T WORRY IF YOU DON”T HAVE ALL OF THIS STUFF. THE TUTOR WILL SHARE WITH YOU
- Important:
- colour xerox pictures (at least 3) of something personally meaningful or inspiring
- Text which is meaningful to you (you will also write your own)
- 2 Full sheets of Arches Text Wove
- Sketchbook HB or 2B, 4B Pencils
- Eraser
- Water brush, medium point
- Masking tape or artist tape
- At least three unusual tools of varying sizes
- Small loading brush
- Mitchell #6 nib and other calligraphy nibs you prefer, broad edged or pointed
- Cola pen - If you don’t have one, I will bring one for you
- Several large brushes for acrylics (not precious ones)
- A half inch flat watercolour brush, and a 0 Winsor Newton pointed brush.
- A few coloured pencils (inktense for bright palette, graphtint for more neutral subtle colors
- Optional - Pan pastels
- Gouache/watercolor - whatever you have
- Exacto knife
- Glue stick
- Bone folder
- Four book-binding needles
- Micron pens or equivalent. I like oo5 or 01 size
- Kitchen roll / Tissues
- Any favorite tools and materials you would like to bring .
- It is important to remember that whatever you have is enough!
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.