ONSITE Calligraphy: Capital Offences - Thur 24th April 2025
SKU:
MN240425-10
£120.00
£120.00
per item
Included in each day:
- Five hours of expert tuition
- Homemade cookies on arrival
- Filter coffee & selection of teas available free all day
- Freshly prepared lunch
- Homemade afternoon tea
- Ample Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Easy ground-floor access
Click Here for directions to The Victory Room, Bucklebury for the 2025 ONSITE workshops
Tutor: Mary Noble
10am - 4pm
Lunch & afternoon tea provided
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This one-day, onsite workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Workshop Details
Roman Capitals strike fear in many calligraphy students’ hearts; we’re going to break every rule in the book and create some wacky versions that you can use for playful designs that might just get you past that barrier and come to love them. We may offend the 2000-year-old Romans who invented them but that’s progress.
As long as you can write in ‘block capitals’ you can do this. We start with the inoffensive pencil, progress to various other tools, calligraphically conventional and otherwise; change the rule, and the tool, and you get a completely different alphabet.
Throughout the session we’ll explore a variety of possible letterforms, then have a go with an appropriate phrase. The fun is in the creating – it opens up new possibilities and makes us look at letters in a different way. And for relaxation we can do a bit of colouring-in…
Skills / Techniques Covered
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £ 1 payable to the tutor during the workshop.
Students - 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
Roman Capitals strike fear in many calligraphy students’ hearts; we’re going to break every rule in the book and create some wacky versions that you can use for playful designs that might just get you past that barrier and come to love them. We may offend the 2000-year-old Romans who invented them but that’s progress.
As long as you can write in ‘block capitals’ you can do this. We start with the inoffensive pencil, progress to various other tools, calligraphically conventional and otherwise; change the rule, and the tool, and you get a completely different alphabet.
Throughout the session we’ll explore a variety of possible letterforms, then have a go with an appropriate phrase. The fun is in the creating – it opens up new possibilities and makes us look at letters in a different way. And for relaxation we can do a bit of colouring-in…
Skills / Techniques Covered
- Understanding the ‘matching set’ principle
- Exploring nib-widths principles
- Creating an alphabet based on a particular rule
- Use of various calligraphic/ unconventional tools
- Exploring design, noticing internal space
Materials
Materials are not included in the booking fee. Some materials will be provided by the tutor. The approximate cost of these will be £ 1 payable to the tutor during the workshop.
Students - please bring with you:
- HB Pencil
- 12”/30cm ruler, eraser
- Layout/ marker pad A4
- Black non-waterproof ink
- Couple sheets cartridge paper
- Short quotations/ phrases – around 6 words
- Container/ palette with several slots (e.g. ice cube tray) for inks the tutor supplies
- Any calligraphy dip pens you have, but we won’t be using many conventional ones..
- Scissors
- Optional: Automatic pens, coloured pencils or small paintbrush for colouring-in
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.