Tutor Massimo Polello
10am - 4pm
This three-day, onsite workshop is designed for a range of abilities including beginners with a little experience
Workshop Details
In this exciting 3-day workshop with Massimo, you will be creating patterns and textures using non-latin letterforms (Indian, African, Arabic etc.) Working on deformation, distortion and repetition to produce fascinating patterns and compositions. You will end the workshop with a bookbinding project using your creations...
Lots of artists (Kandinski, Klee) as well as scholars and architects have utilised patterns or have exploited their qualities within their works, starting with simple repetition without variations, then inserting different elements into the pattern, increasing the complexity of the design but without exceeding the threshold beyond which chaos is generated.
Quite simply, a pattern is a repeated decorative design - an element that is repeated, according to symmetry and order. In this workshop you will be creating images formed by the combination of organic or geometric shapes and colour using a variety of tools. You will then go on to create a simple book from the patterns and textures created over the three days.
Skills/Techniques Covered
We will work in experimental and intuitive ways and see where the marks take us...
Materials
Materials are not included in the course fee
Please Bring With You
Pens & Nibs
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
This three-day, onsite workshop is designed for a range of abilities including beginners with a little experience
Workshop Details
In this exciting 3-day workshop with Massimo, you will be creating patterns and textures using non-latin letterforms (Indian, African, Arabic etc.) Working on deformation, distortion and repetition to produce fascinating patterns and compositions. You will end the workshop with a bookbinding project using your creations...
Lots of artists (Kandinski, Klee) as well as scholars and architects have utilised patterns or have exploited their qualities within their works, starting with simple repetition without variations, then inserting different elements into the pattern, increasing the complexity of the design but without exceeding the threshold beyond which chaos is generated.
Quite simply, a pattern is a repeated decorative design - an element that is repeated, according to symmetry and order. In this workshop you will be creating images formed by the combination of organic or geometric shapes and colour using a variety of tools. You will then go on to create a simple book from the patterns and textures created over the three days.
Skills/Techniques Covered
We will work in experimental and intuitive ways and see where the marks take us...
Materials
Materials are not included in the course fee
Please Bring With You
Pens & Nibs
- Anything you enjoy writing with
- All your usual calligraphy equipment including the different sizes and kinds of nibs you prefer. For example, Brause, Mitchell, Speedball etc.
- Automatic pens number 5 or 4
- Ruling-pen
- Folded pens / Cola pen
- Invented or unusual tools
- A sketch pad A3 size approx 90gsm (suggested Canson XL or Fabriano Pad)
- Approx. 5 sheets (19" × 25") clear creamy colours of good quality paper 160 - 180 gsm (suggested Canson Mi-Teinte or similar)
- 3 sheets same size as above but black colour.
- Gouache extra-fine quality - your favorite colours
- Black sumi-ink or your preferred ink or walnut ink
- Basic Material necessary for bookbinding: bone folder (or can use the back of a normal table knife), thread, needles, scissors
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.