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his week was Thanksgiving flourishes into their basic elements, in the US, which of course and uses those elements to FOC Council Members Thas me thinking about what demystify flourishing. See the President I’m thankful for. Along with the article on Page 11. Evelyn Eldridge health and safety of family and Cherryl Moote has developed a December 2020 friends, are the many wonderful Vice President Number 141 script that she calls Byzantosh—a Elena Caruthers classes, videos, and lectures that delightful meld of the architectural technology has made available to lettering style of Charles Rennie Treasurer help time go by more. I’m a big Macintosh and elements of Dean Robino fan of video conferencing as a Byzantine lettering. Page 8. stand-in for in-person gatherings Secretary in these days of social distancing. Yukimi Annand taught two stellar Fredi Juni workshops on Hermann Kilian There’s a little over a month until Council Members ‘Built-Up Caps’ in November. Martha Boccalini the end of 2020, yikes! Every The article is on Page 10. year I say the same thing, how Cynthia Cravens did the time go by so quickly? Fort Mason classes will continue to Darla Engelmann This year has been no different be online until the Fort Mason Katie Leavens in that regard. Between online Center opens and we are sure Raoul Martinez lectures and classes, the Friends conditions are safe. To see the Alphabet Editor of Calligraphy calendar has been lineup for 2021, visit the full. Here are the highlights from FOC Classes web page at Carl Rohrs https://www.friendsofcalligraphy.org/pages/classes.html the last couple of months. On December 6, 47 members of In September, Friends of Bulletin Editor FOC came together through Zoom Calligraphy were honored to Nancy Noble� have Dr. John Gillis from Trinity for a holiday party. It was so much College in Dublin, Ireland, present fun getting to talk to people in a lecture about the Faddan More such far away places. Psalter. The psalter was discovered From what I could in a peat bog in the center of see everyone agreed Ireland in 2006, and Dr. Gillis with me. The hands- was in charge of the restoration down best part was and preservation effort. His the slideshow of the discoveries and adventures made calligraphic art from for a tremendously interesting several party-goers. lecture. You can learn more It was like being in a about his lecture on Page 4. moveable gallery on opening night, with On September 12, Risa Gettler the artist right there taught a fun and meditative all-day to comment and ask online class, Illuminated Capitals, questions. You can see where we learned how to paint a screenshot of some of an illuminated letter. You can the participants here. read about her class on Page 2. Best wishes to you all for Suzanne Cunningham, flourisher a safe and cozy holiday extraordinaire, taught Flourishing, the season and new year. Art of the Oval, on October 3. Cheers,

Letter from the President the from Letter Suzanne has deconstructed Friends of Calligraphy Evelyn 1 Illuminated Capitals with Risa Gettler By: Carole Johnson n September 12, 2020, function for each item. That nearby substances, especially Risa Gettler led an online the class used every material on the binders in pigments, Risa Oscriptorium, Illuminated the list is its own testament to had the class use gold gouache, Capitals, that showed FOC Risa’s conscientious preparation! her favorite being Fine-Tec Arabic, members how to paint glorious One indispensable tool was a to fill in the appropriate pattern backing board to which the sections on the good paper. illuminated letters like those that art paper could be temporarily grace medieval manuscripts. The next step was to lay down affixed with removable tape, the remaining colors. Risa Her approach in the workshop allowing comfortable access was inspired by significant recommended Winsor & Newton from any angle. The second gouache for its opacity and changes in manuscript crucial item was a pair of reliability. If students wish to production during the late magnifying goggles, necessary select colors other than those of Middle Ages. While early for precision brushwork. a traditional medieval color medieval manuscripts typically In Risa’s opinion, the main scheme, she suggested they run represented the work of a challenge in painting illuminated color swatches to confirm that single monk, the 13th century letters is to avoid mixing too their colors would look good saw the demand for books rise much water into the gouache, together. and secular workshops emerge. since doing so will buckle the Following the relevant pattern Scribes now copied text and paper and ruin the piece. guide for each remaining color, illuminators invented decorative Toward this end, Risa has imbue a fresh brush lightly developed a technique for letter patterns. Risa’s workshop with paint. Begin in the easiest attaining a reliable gouache allowed participants actual place—in the center of any consistency, one that uses the color section—using a cross- practice in the sequence of steps smallest possible amount of by which these patterns evolve hatch motion that covers the water. She never sets her brush surface and fills the crevices. into sumptuous adornments. to paper without first running Rotate the backing board to this procedure. With a brush, she Prior to the workshop, Risa emailed spot any white places showing mixes a couple drops of water through. After finishing all each student a packet of handouts into gouache in a medicine cap containing a six-page pattern set colors, you can burnish your or dappen dish, then rolls and design with a bone folder, or that Risa had created for the class, turns the brush on the back one based upon a decorated initial the back of a small spoon, pressed of her free hand between the through a sheet of glassine. from the Gorelston Psalter from thumb and index finger. This Norfolk, England, 1310 – 1324. action pushes the paint away For highlight strokes on top In preparation for the workshop, from the ferrule (where paint of the base colors, use Dr. students were asked to print the should never touch) toward Martin’s Bleed-proof White, master outline page onto good the tip of the bristles, forming poising the brush perpendicular paper, e.g., Arches Text Wove, or a good point and indicating to the paper surface, Japanese to trace it using a light table and a suitable amount of water. style. Don’t hold your breath: Micron pen. The set comprised a breathe out while your whole master pattern outline and five Technique demonstrated, Risa arm pulls a long stroke. To iterations of that outline, each tackled brushes. Any round add shadows, darken the base iteration indicating the placement brush, size 1 through 5, with a colors. Make dots with the of one of the five colors neat point will serve. Synthetic handle end of the brush. traditionally used in European bristles are favored for projects Tooling the gold makes it Risa Gettler Workshop manuscripts of the period. such as this one because they are strong enough to move the shimmer. If the gouache was Specific gouache colors suggested not laid thickly enough, add were Fine-Tec Gold; Winsor heavy particles of gouache, which is not as finely ground as another coat. Cushion the paper & Newton Primary (W/N), and make dot impressions with Prussian, or Cobalt Blue; W/N watercolor. As Risa remarked, “Think of gouache as watercolor a ball stylus set in place and Spectrum, Primary, or Flame Red; rocked. Ambient light bounces W/N Permanent Green Light; mixed with rocks.” Risa reserves one brush per color. across the impressions and and Turner Permanent Yellow sparkles back up to enchant Orange; or alternative clear bright Risa likes to honor the age-old the eye of the beholder. blue, red, green, and yellow. practice of always beginning Risa also sent a materials with gold. Because real gold leaf checklist annotated with the is notorious for sticking to all December 2020 � 2 Top: Group Photo of the participants in Risa Gettler's Zoom Workshop. Risa is in the second row, second from the right.

Far Left: Ann-Marie Fleming's finished 'A' Left: Gail Sandberg's finished 'A;

Bottom Left: Mina Taylor's "T" Bottom Middle: ValerieFranco's "A' Bottom Right: Kimberly Hutchinson's 'A'

Friends of Calligraphy 3 A Book in a Bog, Letterforms from the Mud By: Jessie Evans would’ve been made from back Because bogs are rich in when—survive better in bogs archaeological finds, the federal than they do when they end up government of Ireland educates in other places, like soil. The bog owners on the protocol for preservation happens because such finds. After the folks who of the effects of sphagnum, peat, discovered the psalter realized moss, which John says immobilizes they might have a rare find, they microorganisms that deteriorate quickly covered it back up with material buried in soil. peat! They knew exactly what to do because they were instructed by Turf’s up, Dude! the state on what to do. Because Dig this: the Faddan More Psalter all archaeological finds are the was spotted by the sharp eyes of property of the state immediately one Edward Fogarty, who was he Friends of Calligraphy operating a backhoe to extract hosted an intriguing lecture peat, also called turf, from a bog in Tby John Gillis on the Faddan More the townland of Faddan More in Psalter on Saturday, September 26. County Tipperary, Ireland on It just so happened that it was July 20, 2006. scheduled for 11 am Pacific Daylight Time, but in fact, the lecture happened at all hours of the day and night on September 26 depending on what time zone upon discovery, the folks who you attended from. Like the other found the psalter immediately virtual lectures hosted by the contacted the National Museum of Friends of Calligraphy, people from Ireland. John said that there was all around the world attended disbelief at first, but a team from the lecture. the National Museum in Dublin After a few words of welcome While he described the discovery of was sent to the site right away. from The Friends of Calligraphy this earthy treasure, John showed Identification of the item happened president Evelyn Eldridge, John an image of the mechanical digger, on site almost immediately by set the stage for the lecture by or backhoe, used to harvest peat the Head of Collections from the describing the tale of the Faddan from the bog. A feature of this kind National Museum. The item was More Psalter as one of discovery, of mechanical digger is that the identified as a psalm because the mystery, and Indiana-Jones-level backhoe bucket faces the driver. It Latin words of in the valley of tears archaeological adventure. was in this way that Eddie Fogarty were discernible. Psalters, the most Bogged Down was able to spot the psalter. common texts, were used to teach The first thing to know is, bogs But the image of the backhoe on reading and writing in training for are a thing in Ireland. John started the bog also showed what the bog monastic life. So, John said, if you with a picture of a map showing find a manuscript in a bog in the privately-owned bog where the Ireland, you can bet money that it psalter was found, and he explained was a psalter. that bogs in Ireland are common. He then presented a map from Here comes the 1655 of the same area showing Conservation Science! that the Faddan More bog was in John then showed an image of the place at that time, pointing out psalter that showed how it looked that the psalter would have been when it was presented to him for the buried for 700 years already at first time. The image showed a very Faddan MoreFaddan Psalter Lecture the time the map was produced. wet-looking, bog-brown, damaged He went on to say a little bit manuscript, with only a few pieces more about bogs: they are rich looked like as it’s being dug up. The indicating what it was. He explained in archaeological finds, and that image basically showed brown on that the National Museum’s habit of organic archaeological finds, brown on brown. John recalls that nicknaming things persisted, and the like say, vellum and leather—you Eddie Fogarty reported that he saw psalter was affectionately called know, the things that a manuscript something brown. Good eye, Eddie! the lasagne. December 2020 Continued on Next Page 4 them out. John broke down O’Neill contributed to the project. A Book in a Bog, Letterforms from the Mud the sequence of operations for He recreated the letterforms and the overall process as: removal, illuminated capitals from the Faddan separation, cleaning, mapping, More Psalter. For the exhibition solvent exchange, vacuum dry, and of the Faddan More Psalter, Tim housing. He hit on a point again O’Neill produced a facsimile of

Continued about how it was the bog that some of the main pages of the preserved the manuscript best. The psalter so that the exhibit could tell parts that he was able to remove and separate intact were the parts that were exposed to the bog. The After months of careful parts of the manuscript that consideration, the approach John weren’t exposed to the bog became eventually took in the first part of a gelatinous mass that resulted the conservation project was to in the loss of the integrity of the figure out how the book was put material. John estimates that about together. What was so unique about 15% of the manuscript survived this bog-preserved manuscript was because of the preservation effects that it was in its original condition. of it being mired in the bog. Lots of manuscripts exist in special the story of the psalter. Medieval Scrabble collections and conservatories, Back to the tannins in the ink— but not many are in their original That’s great for the fragments that John described how the parts of condition. John knew he had an could be removed intact, but what the letterforms written with more opportunity to learn about how about the gelatinous mass parts? ink were preserved better than the this manuscript was made, and They weren’t thrown away! John parts written with less ink. From he determined that making a sorted out any vellum fragments a calligraphic point of view, the collation map of the manuscript he could from the gelatinous thinner strokes, and the parts of a was key to the project as the first material and ended up with what given letterform where two strokes goal. And how long did it take to he called “medieval scrabble.” The come together that are thinner, think reach this first goal? TWO AND theory here, he explained, is that stem and arch, were less prominent A HALF YEARS! With several than the thick downward strokes failed attempts along the way. of the letterforms. Normally, with After the collation map, he had to manuscripts preserved in any other figure out how to read the pages. way other than bog, the iron gall ink But he was dealing with 100% eats through the vellum--especially saturated vellum that had saturated when you’ve got strokes of ink on over a millennium. So John asked both sides of the vellum—and for a tiny sample of the vellum causes the thicker parts of the letterforms to deteriorate more than the thinner parts. It makes there are tannins in the ink, and me reflect on the materials we use like the bog, the tannins probably in our calligraphy today, and it worked to preserve some of the makes me wonder how well my text on those fragments that were own calligraphy notebooks and separated from the unsalvageable journals might hold up if they material. High-resolution images were thrown in a bog, or you know, were taken of every piece of anywhere for a thousand years. the manuscript along the way. John then had digital images One of the questions asked in of the fragments that he could the chat of this virtual lecture that contained no writing and let manipulate and piece together. was, John, are you a calligrapher? it air dry. Because of the nature John also worked out a character John chuckled and said that Tim, of vellum, the sample shrunk count for each page, which helped O’Neill, has attempted to teach considerably when it air dried. So with the detective work as well. him. Really though, he said, he’s Faddan MoreFaddan Psalter Lecture he knew he had to do something a manuscript conservator. differently. He exchanged the Forensic Calligraphy water in the vellum for a solvent Scholars and professionals were Covered in Mud of denatured alcohol. He soaked consulted at every point in the John then showed some images of fragments of the vellum in the process, and when it came time to the cover of the Faddan More denatured alcohol and then evaluate and study the letterforms, Psalter, which survived well. It’s vacuumed the fragments to dry historian and calligrapher Tim a single piece of leather, made Friends of Calligraphy Continued on Next Page 5 Mired in Mystery PhD thesis due to be published soon. John said that the Faddan More And hopefully someday soon, we’ll produces nothing but questions. all be able to travel to the National Perhaps the biggest question was, Museum of Ireland in Dublin to see HOW DID IT GET INTO THE the Faddan More Psalter for ourselves. BOG? There wasn’t anything This was an exciting lecture about around it. No buildings. The the thrill of discovery, dedicated find site of the psalter seemed and scholarly conservation, difficult to be remote and random. Was detective work, and what we can it dropped? Discarded? Could learn from something preserved it have been a Viking attack?? so well from so long ago. The from young calf skin, with Monasteries were soft targets for Friends of Calligraphy thank John three distinctive buttons. Viking raids. The monks were Gillis for giving us this intriguing nonviolent people who couldn’t tale of a book in a bog. He then referenced the gospel defend themselves. So maybe a books of Cadmug and MacDurnan We Dig It. monk was running away from a and showed drawn images from Viking and dropped the psalter? both manuscripts of evangelists Maybe he hid the psalter in holding books. Both of the books the bog with the intention of in the drawn images had the same returning for it when it was safe? three distinctive buttons as the cover of the Faddan More Psalter! John said that he is convinced that the book was placed there purposefully, noting that it was deposited at a funny angle. A quick but related sidenote: I’m guessing that when time travel is finally invented, time travelers will only be allowed to observe the past and not interact with it. Butterfly effect and all that. So when I get my time passport, I’m definitely going back Membership to ~800 CE to see what happened Then John showed images of Friends of Calligraphy extends in the townland of Faddan More. the back side of the cover. In a warm welcome to our newest his examination of the cover, he But Wait! There’s (Faddan) More! members. We’re so glad you discovered markings—thirty spots If you’re itching to try your joined! Love, of designs that he calls, insular calligraphic hand at letterforms that doodling. Watch out, Zentanglers! look like those from the Faddan Liesbet Boudens Meredith But there was something else! More Psalter, Timothy O’Neill has Kathy Cazale a book called The Irish Hand: Scribes The inside of the cover was Ellie Hattori and Their Manuscripts From the Earliest lined with—wait for it—papyrus! Lona Lee No way, thought John. So he Times. If you are looking for more John Stevens had Caroline Cartwright from on the conservation of the Faddan the British Museum verify the More Psalter, there’s a documentary Peggy Su material. The papyrus was used called Treasure from the Bogs by Alan Alma Taylor to stiffen the leather cover so Gilsenan that was made for TV. Valerie Weilmuenster that it behaved more like a book You can also get more information cover than a leather jacket. about the conservation process in Members support FOC in many Papyrus was used this way in the John’s published papers and his different ways. At this time, we Nag Hammadi Gospels as well. express our gratitude to the John is convinced that the cover members who have renewed or wasn’t made for the psalter, but joined at the patron, sustaining Faddan MoreFaddan Psalter Lecture that it was sort of a trial piece of and supporting levels: material like a kind of cutting mat that happened to fit the psalter. SUPPORTING The cover was vacuum-freeze Pia Brandt dried, and is now dried, stable, Sylvia Kowal and on exhibit along with other Peter Renz parts of the manuscript. Jane Shibata December 2020 6 moved to Ashland, Oregon to care for them in 2013. Her dad died in 2015, followed by her mother in 2017.

Megan Lucas In either late 2017 or early 2018, her cancer returned December 13, 1957 – November 17, 2020 and she commenced chemo, but it was too hard on her and they gave it up. After a hiatus, chemo was tried egan joined FOC in 1989 after moving once more and abandoned. Ultimately she turned to to the Bay Area in 1988. Born in San other types of treatment and lifestyle to fight the disease MDiego, she moved frequently, her father was and the pain. She would have turned 63 this December. a physician with the US Navy, so the family I first met Megan at a workshop, and we liked each moved from San Diego to the Philippines other immediately. Neither of us thought we looked to Maryland and back to California. With like the other, but people mixed us up, calling us by degrees from UC Santa Barbara and UCSF, the other’s name. She urged me to join the Council. Megan worked as a physical therapist, Our friendship grew at retreat, which she was able specializing in ergonomics. She began to study to attend four times between 2006 and 2013, and calligraphy in Santa Barbara, taking a class as through working together on the Council. I visited an antidote to her intensive studies in physical her at her home in Napa during her chemo and therapy, and she found that she loved it. After stayed in touch when she moved to Oregon. In 2019, joining FOC, her participation waxed and Debbie Brawner, also a good friend of Megan, moved waned, depending on other life demands, to Oregon and was able to help Megan by running but in 2003, she was elected to the Council, errands for her, particularly after the shelter orders. serving for 8 years. At the end of 2004 she They talked about art projects they would do when became the workshop coordinator. At that Megan got better. It was Debbie who phoned to tell me time, the coordinator scheduled and ran three Megan had passed away. We will both remember her or four workshops a year, doing virtually as a fighter who loved life and loved art, who always everything. Megan gave up her place on the had a positive attitude and cared for others. The last Council and her role as workshop coordinator time I spoke with Megan on the phone, she was very in 2011 after she was first diagnosed with upbeat about her chances to beat the cancer, but cancer. Following successful surgery and she also told me she had made arrangements with a chemo, she turned her attention to her aged friend to take her cat, should that become necessary. I parents, both of whom had dementia, and she hoped she would make it to retreat again. I miss her. ...Meredith Klein In Memoriam In Memoriam

Above: Retreat 2006, with Kris Nevius, Megan, Meredith Klein & Jenn Enault.

Left: Megan with her sister Wendy, at a fashion show that the cancer treatment patients put on in April 2012. Friends of Calligraphy 7 Byzantosh with Cherryl Moote By: Darla Engelmann n a workshop committee meeting the double “ee”. I’ve included Several slideshows of her work I suggested getting Cherryl my notes for you to see how fun and the pages she emailed to us IMoote to teach for FOC. I had that is. Participants gave Cherryl were meant to encourage and seen the work her class did at a ideas of how to make these inspire us. And they did. She also conference several years ago and double letters and it was exciting shared pangrams, quotes in many I wished I had been in that class! to see everyone’s creativity. languages, and a few unusual Then Evelyn Eldridge said she words for us to play with, which had taken Byzantosh with Cherryl I am always grateful to have. and so I knew she was teaching This was a fantastic class online. I was so delighted when and Cherryl is a creative she accepted our proposal. and inspiring teacher. I hope On October 17 and 18, Cherryl, Darla's examples of ligatures and the letter "o." everyone had as good a time as a Canadian calligrapher, artist I did! Thank you Cherryl! PLAY is key to Cherryl’s work as and bookbinder, came to us via she gave us lots of permission to Zoom to teach the hand she play away. It was freeing to write created and which she named without the use of guidelines and Byzantosh. We were a group of to write in a circle or square, fitting 33 after Cherryl generously let us words in wherever they would fit. add all the people on the waitlist I, for one, enjoyed a freedom and to her class. The participants creativity in this lack of structure. were from all over the US plus several people from the UK. Byzantosh, as the name implies, is the combination of the Greek and Russian letters used during the Byzantine Empire and the alphabet created by Scottish artist Charles Rennie Macintosh known for his Art Deco and Art Nouveau design at the end of the Victorian Era. Below: After the first class, Dorothy Yuki created these two pieces to showcase what she learned: I found this creative monoline hand to be fun and easy to learn. After demonstrating the basic alphabet, Cherryl gave us several Darla's finished piece from Cherryl's workshop. options for each letter, giving this alphabet a lot of versatility. For We also played with different tools example, the simple “i” has 6 and materials. We started with different options. How fun is that! a pencil and used the pressure- release technique and then moved on to fineliner pens, Speedball B nibs, ruling pens, folded pens, and refillable markers. I had never used refillable markers and found this new tool to be one I will use Darla's examples of possible varieties again and again. We tried white for the letter "i". ink and silver ink, acrylic and

Cherryl Moote Workshop Cherryl demonstrated how to use watercolor. Cherryl demonstrated interesting and unusual ligatures. colored pencils and watercolor We bounced letters, stacked letters, pencils. We filled counter spaces made tall, skinny and fat, wide with color and learned how to letters. We played with double make a letter look like it was 3D. letters, trying to figure out how Cherryl shared her tips and tricks to make “oo” work together and I am excited to use them. It and putting one of two “p”s makes using several of the tools upside down and backwards. I and materials easier. I found myself was especially enamored with thinking: why didn’t I think of that. December 2020 8 Laura Bernabei's "Thank You Note" for Cherryl Nancy Noble’s Byzantosh: Monster Mash Fredi Juni’s Byzantosh: Eagle Poem

Many of the happy participants in Cherryl's two day workshop. Cherryl Moote: top row, right in this first screen capture

Above: Gail Sandberg’s ‘New Year’

Above: Elena Caruther's Byzantosh

Left: Caryn Lum's Byzantosh

he FOC triennial exhibition of members’ works was scheduled to be held in 2021. It is installed in the Skylight Gallery at San Francisco Public Kalligraphia TLibrary in normal years, but this is not a normal year. Due to the difficulty of planning our exhibition during the pandemic, FOC requested that SFPL allow us to shift to 2022. They have agreed, so Kalligraphia XVI XVI will be held in 2022, and every three years after that. Friends of Calligraphy 9 Drawn & Built-Up Capitals with Yukimi Annand By: Barry Morentz Two Workshops in November or three days in November, rediscovering, the humble HB duty, and the lucky participants F20 enthusiastic scribes pencil, varying the pressure emerged with a greatly gathered to study the bewitching exerted on the tool to produce expanded vision of the potential letterforms of Hermann Kilian, shapely vertical strokes with for unique and intriguing 1929-2004, the great German subtly weighted tops and calligraphic expression. This calligrapher, type designer bottoms, a detail emulating the all-too-brief workshop proved and book designer. Widely architectural principle of entasis. to be far more than just another celebrated in his time for his At the same time we drew the alphabet class and it remained daring and sensuous works, characteristic triangular shaped for us to go to our studios and it has been only relatively serifs and gently filled them practice, practice, practice recently that there has been an in, dispelling the misguided because “somehow you never explosion of interest in studying notion that Romans could be quite get them.” Time will his output in detail. So it was drawn or written quite easily tell...and these days we have our great good fortune to delve because one is using a pencil. plenty of that available. into Kilian’s world under the We next advanced to producing expert aegis of Yukimi Annand the letters with a fine marker, this who has spent considerable time incorporating them into time studying his works at the a text of our choosing. Despite celebrated Klingspor Museum being in Zoom format Yukimi in Offenbach, Germany and in examined each student’s work Berlin’s Akademie der Künste. and offered tips on layout in Yukimi packed a semester’s addition to evaluating the letters. worth of examples and concepts As though this was not already into three afternoons, but more than enough we were provided us with the bonus of treated to a substantial overview critiquing overnight in copious of the diverse forms and styles detail our class projects. She for which Kilian became justly then presented them for all to famous. At this point we chose view and hear her explanations. to work in either the classical As it turned out this was a mode or the seductively class that went considerably eccentric form, using either a beyond the study of complex broadedged or ruling pen. It had letterforms, as it encompassed become more than obvious that layout and design as well. “mastery” does indeed require unlimited practice and discipline. Kilian’s eclectic work is immediately recognized by the The many handout sheets rhapsodically sensuous nuances revealed a dazzling world of that impart an unmistakable unlimited potential to employ identity to his forms. As eager as these forms in a wide variety of we all were to begin producing layouts. But Yukimi did not stop these letters, Yukimi wisely had there. We were also provided us start with an overall review of with two PDFs of the full range of Kilian’s graphic designs and Yukimi Annand Workshops Workshops Annand Yukimi the basic Roman capitals in all their austere simplicity, ha! calligraphic output—enough Sheila Waters once famously declared to provide a lifetime of study. “Somehow you never quite get them,ˮ Yukimi Annand is a gentle meaning that they are mysterious and gracious teacher whose and somewhat elusive. And so it explanations displayed a wealth Top Two pieces showcase the the work was that we began our odyssey of knowledge and experience. by Barry Morentz. working with, and in some cases She went well beyond the call of Above: ‘Light’ by Nancy Hays Hills December 2020 10 Flourishing: The Art of the Oval By: Meredith Klein

’ve pretty much avoided or between flourish marks. Then she repeated the flourish. Iflourishing for most of my This level of analysis was extremely helpful in understanding calligraphic life, adhering to how to make graceful flourishes. We learned different ways to Peter Thornton’s advice, “If you flourish lower case letters, then capitals, some double letters, can’t flourish, don’t prove it.” and problem combinations. The pace of the workshop was My infrequent attempts resulted great, and Suzanne’s southern accent was relaxing. It was a very in small, often misshapen full day, with a recording we could watch for a specified period circular forms, full of hesitation afterwards, and a chance to send work to Suzanne for critique. and insecurity, colliding with I’m not ready to flourish in public yet, but now that I understand each other or fizzling out. But the principles, I just need a few thousand hours of practice! I long to be able to flourish, so it was a dream come true Suzanne’s when FOC invited Suzanne workshop Cunningham to present her Art demonstrations of her exquisite of the Oval workshop via Zoom letters and in early September. Suzanne stroke order. has been doing pointed pen calligraphy for 26 years: her flourishing is beautiful and free, and the underlying structure informs but doesn’t inhibit the graceful swirls. Armed with over a dozen pages of handouts, we Zoomed to Suzanne’s studio in More examples Alabama, where she started us of her letters out by explaining the theory of and flourishing. flourishing and what to aim for and what to avoid. Then we did a series of warm-up exercises, some in pencil, some in pen. Suzanne proceeded to demonstrate flourishes. Her approach was clear and well organized, building complex forms in steps. Consistent More examples of work from Yukimi’s workshop: with the meaning of the word “flourish” (to grow), we began with a simple flourish; then, in the next step, we grew it to form a more complex flourish; in the next, we grew it still further. We could choose to follow along using a pencil or a pointed pen. When she first made a flourish, Suzanne marked it up in different- These four pieces showcase colored pens, to show us the the excellent feedback by Yukimi for the work by Suzanne Cunningham Workshop oval form, the midline of the Antonio Bonacci. oval, and the balancing of the different spaces created within Above: Weathergram by Nancy Hays Hills Friends of Calligraphy 11 FOC Combined Council Meeting Trivial Pursuits and has discussed scheduled for Monday July 27, 2020 Sunday, 12 July, 2020, with Dorothy. at 7 pm. 10:00 am, Zoom Publications & Mailings: Responsibility for lectures was discussed Council members present: Martha Due to Covid limitations, Meredith since they are handled by the Workshop Boccalini, Cynthia Cravens, Elena handled the latest mailing on her own! Committee only if a workshop teacher Carruthers, Evelyn Eldridge, Darla There is not yet a decision on whether is presenting. Cynthia volunteered to be Engelmann, Fredi Juni, Katie Leavens, the Bulletin will be printed or digital on a subgroup if one were established. Raoul Martinez, Dean Robino only. Rick will do the initial capitals in Unfinished Business: Guests: Nancy Noble, Carl Rohrs, the Directory; Judy will do the design. Business Card on hold. Dorothy Yuki, Meredith Klein Hospitality: Cynthia still has The meeting was called to order no deputy but not needed while Scholarship Fund on hold. at 1:09 pm. Minutes from April 25, we are virtual. We agreed to plan 2022 Conference Update: Evelyn Logo 2020 meeting: Cynthia moves to a virtual Holiday party. Cynthia contest email sent to guild members. approve, Dean seconds. Unanimous will lead, Meredith, Darla, Nancy will accept submissions and approval. Minutes from May 5, Elena, and Evelyn will assist. send to the committee anonymously 2020 Annual General Meeting, Social Media: Katie for decision. Debra and Rick have Elena moves to approve, Raoul been holding online meetings with folks Featuring members’ work periodically seconds. Unanimous approval. who expressed interest in volunteering on Facebook, Instagram, and our for the conference. FOC members Membership: Meredith reported Website, to highlight the work of Fredi and Susan Ito to be Housing for 2020-2021, 20 New, 330 Renewal, different members monthly basis. Co-chairs. Evelyn and Nancy to work 7 Honorary, 2 Honorary Spouse, Fredi is contacting members identified on transportation and pre-housing 359 Total membership, with some in committee; the announcement needs of teachers who arrive early. PayPal payments to be added. The and call for further participation Evelyn will update Council regularly. June Mailing was over 550 for the is proposed for the next Bulletin. first time in recent memory. Raoul moves to approve, Elena New Business: Treasurer: Dean presented the seconds, Unanimous approval. Alphabet Vol 45 back issues will remain the same price: $20.00. Council 2019-2020 final spending report. Elena Social Media Electronic agreed with Dean that Alphabet back moves to approve, Martha seconds, Communication Guidelines as issue costs will automatically continue unanimous approval of the budget updated by the SocMed committee. as they are on July 1 unless Council for 2020-2021 and the Transaction Darla moves to approve, Raoul decides to increase the price in May Report for April through June 2020. seconds. Unanimous approval. For the Alphabet budget, Carl says or June. FOC received several requests printing cost will be about the same; Hashtag #FOCSHELTERING for for Alphabet 45-4 from people who while digital printer costs continue to members and others to post work on attended Carl’s earlier lecture. Instagram during the pandemic. To be drop, paper and corollary costs are up. SF Pen Show. The 2020 SF Pen announced in an all-member email. Workshop Committee: Elena Show was canceled; do not know summarized workshops for 2020, Web Administrator: Raoul presented whether will be in 2021. his report. The SocMed Committee Cora Pearl, online and successful; : Meredith shared the will consider a question about reposts. Calendar Judy Detrick, online in two sessions, draft for the coming year and going well; Ann Miller, online in Meetings & Events: dates were established for Council August, two sessions; Risa Gettler, 2020 AGM The Annual General meetings, Quarterly mailings, online in September; Jane Shibata, Meeting, held on Zoom, was successful. Bulletin due dates, New Member rescheduled to Spring; Yukimi Officers and council were elected Meeting, and the Holiday Party. Annand, online in November. unanimously. Meredith created a Planned for 2021: Jurgen Vercaemst 2021 AGM: Latino-Hispanic room is beautiful colored Uncials slate. February; Mike Gold April, Sherri reserved at SFPL for May 2, 2021. Kiesel Thorton May, Sharon Zeuglin Retreat March 2021. Meredith FOC 50th anniversary is 2023 Summer, Elmo Van Slingerland Fall, says that this is up to Santa Sabina. to 2024. Plan early if we want under discussion, Leann Clark and Council agreed to negotiate with them to do something major. Michael Gold. Online workshop and make a deposit if requested. Julie Wildman’s request to publish evaluations have been developed. Kalligraphia June 2021. Meredith Susie article from Alphabet raised Fort Mason: Dean reported. July is contacting Andrea to confirm some copyright and attribution 29 will be the annual Fort Mason that on the Library schedule. questions. Carl resolved; the article Committee meeting. Raoul Martinez Exhibitions: Ruth’s Table. Dorothy is already on the SF Library Website. class was online and went well; reported that they are still closed. No Carl, Meredith and Dean will discuss Meredith Klein will be online; Patricia update on the exhibition status. guidelines for copyright and attribution Coltrin, online or in person decision to when sharing Alphabet articles. be made July 29; Rick Paulus, online Lectures: Dean moves to adjourn, Elena FOC Council Meeting Minutes or in person to be decided later. Daniel Reeves: Zoom Lecture seconds, Unanimous approve. Trivial Pursuits: Evelyn shared August 5, 2020. Meeting ended at 1:35 pm an update from Marcia Friedman. Carl Rohrs: Carl offered to do a Zoom Edited for Publication Reserved for January 9 at the church. lecture on Estonian Calligraphy She is thinking about a virtual featured in the recent Alphabet. This is December 2020 12 FOC Special Council Meeting special considerations for 2019–2020 John Gillis is coming up on September August 24, 2020, 3 pm, Zoom members who hadn’t yet renewed for 26. So far everything going smoothly. 2020-2021. Evelyn moved to approve; Curt Frank is December 18, 6 pm, Elena seconded; unanimous approval. Council members present: Martha Chemistry of Color. Evelyn will ask Boccalini, Cynthia Cravens, Elena Treasurer: Dean has no reports to Marcia to do flyer. Carruthers, Evelyn Eldridge, Darla share today. Filings are ready to go to Please send suggestions for future Engelmann, Fredi Juni, Katie Leavens, accountant and officers. Dean needs lectures. Raoul Martinez, Dean Robino volunteers for October Mini Audit. Evelyn called the meeting to order at Darla and Evelyn volunteer. There will be a lecture subgroup to 3:04 pm. This special council meeting Dean requested all Council members take over finding and coordinating is being held to determine the date complete conflict of interest forms. She future lectures not done in connection and time for the upcoming John Gillis will resend. with a workshop. Nancy and Cynthia volunteered to be in the group; Evelyn Lecture on the Fadden More Psalter. Elena: Katie Workshop Committee: agreed to chair. Evelyn will propose to John Saturday, developed a great Google workshop September 26, 2020, at 11 am, and evaluation form. For 2020: Cora Pearl, Meetings & Events: Kalligraphia. Sunday, September 27, 2020, at 11 am Carol DuBosch, Judy Detrick, Ann Meredith is in contact with Andrea as back up. Dean moves, Fredi seconds. Miller, Risa Gettler, Suzanne Cunning- Grimes about reserving the library. Unanimous approval. Darla agrees to ham, Yukimi Annand, all online. For Unfinished Business:Scholarship work on the calligraphy for the flyer, 2021: Jurgen Vercaemst January online, and Nancy will design. Fund. Fredi, Nancy, and Evelyn will Mike Gold April, Sherri Thornton May, work on this. A bare bones document Dean moves to adjourn, Elena seconds, Sharon Zeugen Summer, Elmo van has been developed. 2022 Conference Unanimous approval. Meeting ended at Slingerland Fall, Lee Ann Clark, David update: Name is Write on the Edge. 3:18 pm. Edited for Publication McGrail. The winning Logo design by Yukimi Fort Mason: Dean: for 2020, Mere- Annand. Evelyn will continue to update dith Klein’s Uncial and Variations and us regularly. FOC Council Meeting Patricia Coltrin’s Italic will be online. Thank You Cards: Katie has some Sunday, September 20, 2020, We will decide about Rick Paulus’s estimates of costs for the printed Thank 1:00 pm, Zoom Pointed Pen Alternatives in the Fort You cards discussed at our last in-person Mason Committee meeting September meeting. Council was supportive of the Council members present: Martha 23. The Committee held Zoom best estimate for the letterpress option. Katie Boccalini, Cynthia Cravens, practice meetings for teachers and will design on that basis; Elena, Nancy, Elena Caruthers, Evelyn Eldridge, cohosts. For 2021, Raoul Martinez Dorothy, and Martha agreed to be on a Darla Engelmann, Fredi Juni, Copperplate, Judy Dietrich Carolingian, subgroup to look at options for printing. Katie Leavens, Dean Robino Rick Paulus The Magnificent Monoline Excused: Raoul Martinez Guests: Letter, Meredith Klein Italic, Melissa New Business: Evelyn reported on Marcia Friedman,Trivial Pursuits Titone: Pointed brush. the Lecture Logistics Group. Cynthia, discussion only, Meredith Klein, Evelyn, Elena, Nancy, Raoul, Dean have Publications & Mailings: Nancy: Nancy Noble, Dorothy Yuki been doing the preparation for Zoom The Bulletin will be online. and Eventbrite events and meeting after Evelyn called the meeting to order at Meredith: The Alphabet is printed and the lectures to debrief issues. 1:02 pm. Minutes from July 12, 2020 was delivered to Meredith today. She is Combined Council meeting: Elena • Raoul has made changes to the email waiting on renewals that were recently moves to approve, Martha seconds. notices for ease of participants’ mailed to complete the mailing. Unanimous approval. Minutes from signing on. August 24, 2020 Special Council Daniel Reeve’s guild, Calligraphers • The group reviewed other Meeting Dean moves to approve, Darla of Kapiti, wants to swap publications. platforms and feels strongly that seconds. Unanimous approval. Dean moved that we add the guild to Zoom is best. the Exchange Group list in exchange • We will do practice sessions with Trivial Pursuits: Marcia Friedman for the printed version of their journal, lecturers. reported that planning is going well. It Katie seconded, all approved. • Nancy will cohost. will be online; six teachers are lined up: Barry Morentz, Christine Hospitality: Cynthia reported that Invitation to Virtual Study. Evelyn Colasurdo, Carol Pallesen, Jacqueline Meredith, Darla, Cynthia, Evelyn, will reported on a request from a Cal student Sullivan, Annie Cicale, Sharon Zeugin. meet soon to plan an online Holiday for FOC participation in a study of the Sign up will be in the beginning of Party. impact of the Covid lockdown on Bay Area nonprofits. Dean will send a draft December. Why Trivial Pursuits? Ann Katie reported that Social Media: response for review; the Council agreed Yamasaki named around the time of #FOCSheltering has 51 posts on to participate. the game Trivial Pursuits. Instagram. The Member Feature email Membership: Meredith reported is going out soon with information Dean moves to adjourn, Elena seconds, 40 new, 459 renewed, 7 honorary, 2 also posted on social media and in the Unanimous approval. Meeting ended at

FOC Council Meeting Minutes honorary spouse, 508 total, up 149 Bulletin. 3:43 pm. Edited for Publication from this time last year. New member Lectures: Evelyn reported two success- meeting moved to November 1 due to ful lectures: Carl Rohrs, Daniel Reeve. Cherryl Moote workshop in October. It Daniel has joined FOC! Thank you to will be virtual. For the September and Darla for the beautiful flyer! October workshops only, we will have Friends of Calligraphy 13 Copperplate with Raoul Martinez Fort Mason Classes Date Time Event Details Carolingian with Judy Detrick January 5, 12, 19, 6:30 – 9:00 pm Copperplate Zoom 26, February 2, 9, Seven Tuesday Raoul Martinez 16, 2021 Evenings

February 27,March 10:00am –12:30pm Carolingian Zoom Magnficent Monoline with Rick Paulus 6, 13, 20, 27, April Seven Saturday Judy Detrick 3, 17, 2021 Mornings

April 24, May 1, 10:00am –12:30pm The Magnificent Location will be 15, 22, 2021 Four Saturday Monoline Letter announced in Mornings Rick Paulus March 2021 Italic with Meredith Klein August 17, 24, 31, 6:30 – 9:00 pm Italic Fort Mason September 7, 14, Seven Tuesday Meredith Klein 21, 28, 2021 Evenings

October 5, 12, 6:30 – 9:00 pm Pointed Brush Fort Mason Pointed Brush with Melissa Titone 19, 26, Seven Tuesday Melissa Titone November 2, 9, 16 Evenings

Social Media �Address Change If your contact information changes: address, phone or email, Friends of Calligraphy Committee please send the new information to: We hope you have noticed that in Membership Chair is a nonprofit society of people interested in calligraphy and related arts. September we began an ongoing Meredith Klein Membership is $40.00 annually, open to monthly Member Feature on the 707 Spokane Avenue, amateurs & professionals. FOC homepage, Instagram and Albany, CA 94706 Mailing address: Facebook. We will be featuring [email protected] well-known calligraphers in our 510.527.0434 PO Box 425194, SF, CA 94142 guild and works by members who have less exposure. It will be an � FOC Website: FOC Facebook & www.friendsofcalligraphy.org online exhibition and the FOC Social Media Committee will Instagram Pages FOC Facebook: www.facebook.com/FriendsofCalligraphy make the decisions about posting. Check out our Facebook and If you are interested in having Instagram pages. At the bottom of Instagram:

Calendar & Notes www.instagram.com/friendsofcalligraphy your work featured, contact the FOC website home page, click Fredi Juni at fredijuni58@gmail. either the F in a blue square or the com. She will share information red square camera outline. While with you about the process of you don’t need an account for a Colophon submitting your work. You may brief look, you do need one to see FOC Bulletin #141 submit two to five pieces. multiple posts. Masthead: Yukimi Annand #FOCSHELTERING Hashtag The services have changed Announcement Text: Baskerville, Galahad FOC their policies, so we want our & Optima invites you to share your information to reflect that. calligraphy projects while you Adobe InDesign CC 2019 was are staying home. Post your work Copy Deadline used for the layout on an iMac on Instagram with the hashtag Deadline for articles for Bulletin Proofreading: Evelyn Eldridge, #FOCSHELTERING. During Raoul Martinez & Dean Robino. this time, we will periodically 142: February 22, 2021. Please repost a selection to the Friends submit articles or questions to Photos & ScreenShots: of Calligraphy Instagram page. Nancy Noble, [email protected] Laura Bernabei & Nancy Noble December 2020 14