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Letter from the President Students and Guests from Loren Bondurant’S Recent Beginning Italic Class at Ft Dear Friends, December 2017 | Number 129 Since my last letter to you, we Loren and Andrea Grimes, that ending. The FOC Annual have had a little welcome rain Special Collections Librarian, Holiday Party was held at and what passes for seasonal put together. I took Loren’s Jerry Lehman’s home on change in California. Because class and joined the visit to Sunday, December 3rd with of Daylight Savings (whose the Harrison. approximately 40 members idea was that?), it’s dark before It takes my breath away to see and their guests in attendance. dinner. Did you see that original pieces from world-class A great time was had by all. coming? calligraphers like Marie Angel, Alan Blackman was the Master In October, FOC held a meeting Hermann Zapf, and our own of Ceremonies and regaled all at the main San Francisco Alan Blackman. When you with a number of songs. Hobie library to meet and welcome visit the Harrison you can get MacQuarrie shared a collection new members. Several long-term close to the page, take photos, of his work and that of his members brought examples of make notes (in pencil!), and colleagues. Photos on next page. their calligraphy and items that almost feel like you are in the The new year brings us to included calligraphy, such as room with the calligrapher. Trivial Pursuits, the popular Fredi Juni’s accordion art book In the case of this particular day of mini-workshops for FOC that incorporated calligraphy visit, Alan Blackman, who took members. You received that and mixed media. Loren’s class, so was our fellow flyer in your FOC mailing, too, Calligraphers who live in student, WAS in the room so track it down and fill it out the San Francisco Bay Area with us. The Harrison contains if you want to join us. And last have a bounty of interesting several of Alan’s works, includ- but most definitely not least, and educational calligraphic ing an impressive huge teal next year is Kalligraphia again. Lo How resources to tap into. I don’t banner with the song Kalligraphia is a un-juried a Rose E’er Blooming know them all, but among lettered in calligraphy exhibition that is those resources that I am pink. The colors are vibrant, and held every three years at the familiar with are the collections the lettering is exquisite and San Francisco Main Library by of letters, publications, and perfect. When you go to visit, Friends of Calligraphy. Any manuscripts in the local you should ask to see it—you member of FOC can enter a university libraries, such as won’t be sorry. piece—you do not need to be the Bancroft Library at UC a professional calligrapher. I Berkeley and the Green Library encourage you to enter; this at Stanford; the Letterform event is a chance to show off Archive in San Francisco; and your calligraphy and have it the Harrison Collection at rub elbows with lots of other the main branch of the San calligraphers of all levels of Francisco Library. experience. I’ve been fortunate to view Cheers, manuscripts at the Bancroft and Green libraries, and at the Harrison Collection in San �Evelyn Francisco. The most recent of those events was when several Letter from the President students and guests from Loren Bondurant’s recent Beginning Italic class at Ft. Mason met at 2017 is about to end, with all the Harrison Collection to view of the holiday celebrations a representative selection that and events that accompany � Colophon FOC Bulletin #129 Masthead: Dean Robino Text: Cambria, Palatino & Optima. Adobe InDesign CC was used for the layout on a MacBook Air. Proofreading: Martha Boccalini, Raoul Martinez & Dean Robino. Photos: Louise Grunewald, Raoul Martinez, Nancy Noble & Dean Robino Copy Deadline Deadline for articles for the next FOC Bulletin #130: February 28, 2018. Please submit articles or questions to Nancy Noble, [email protected] Address Change Clockwise: Hobie MacQuarrie If your contact information changes: with Dorothy Yuki; address, phone or email, please send Our favorite hostess: Jerry Lehman; Her lovely the new information to: assistant: Ace; Membership Chair: Alan Blackman sharing his Meredith Klein 510.527.0434 singing talents; 707 Spokane Avenue, The members and guests enjoying his holiday songs; Albany, CA 94706, [email protected] Alan as MC; The ‘Three Wonders’ Volume 42 Alphabet by Lewis Dwyer that captivated many. Now Available Friends of Calligraphy has added Carl Rohrs’s Alphabets from the past year to its Back Issues page. Available issues include Vol. 42, No. 1 (the first all women’s issue, Louise Grunewald cover), Vol. 42, No. 2 (Andrew van der Holiday Party Merwe beach calligraphy cover), Vol. 42, No. 3 (Susie Taylor remembrance issue) and Vol. 42, No. 4 (more Susie, more Andrew). For details on pricing and how to order, please go to www. friendsofcalligraphy.org/pages/ backissues.html � Friends of Calligraphy is a nonprofit society of people interested in calligraphy and related arts. Membership is $40.00 annually, open to amateurs & professionals Mailing address: PO Box 425194, SF, CA 94142 � FOC Website: www.friendsofcalligraphy.org Note: To view the Bulletin in color, visit: http:// FOC Facebook Page: friendsofcalligraphy.org/pages/publications.html www.facebook.com/FriendsofCalligraphy 2 December 2017 dripped gouache or ink on the Meredith Letters from plate. They then exposed the Klein’s plate to UV light, scrubbed it in Black & Red a water bath with a soft brush Intaglio Prints — the Sun and hardened it in the sun. This another example of an By: Raoul Martinez time, the design was indented and, in the case of the design intaglio print During the weekend of October shown below, the plate was made from a 14th–15th, visiting calligrapher transparency printed without ink, as a blind Louise Grunewald gave the embossing. Like the first plate, workshop Letters from the Sun. this is called a relief plate. The workshop was held at Dorothy Yuki’s Embossing & Plate the San Francisco Center for Special thanks to Dorothy Yuki, the Book. Louise led 10 eager who organized the workshop, students through the process to San Francisco Center for the of creating solar prints using Book, who hosted the workshop, UV-sensitive solar plates. to the students who prepared Solarplate technology was meals for Louise, to Meredith originated by Dan Welden, a Klein for creating the thank you pioneer in safer alternatives to cards for Louise and Nina of San printmaking. It uses specially Francisco Center for the Book, prepared polymer-coated plates and finally to Louise Grunewald that are sensitive to UV light. for sharing the art of solar The last hour of the day, Louise When exposed to sunlight, the plate printing with us. Louise gave us a sneak preview of the polymer on the plates hardens; teaches workshops on solarplate intaglio printing method. the plates can then be used printmaking. Her upcoming as printing plates. There are On the second day of the workshops are listed on her web several ways in which a design workshop, Louise showed us site at http://louisegrunewald.com/ can be transferred to the plate. how to make an “intaglio” plate. biocontactworkshops.html An intaglio plate is created On the first day, Louise gave For more information about solar from a transparency containing an overview of the process plate etching and to purchase artwork with gray tones. First, and taught us two simple materials, check out Dan we exposed our plates for 45 techniques for creating a solar Welden’s web sites solarplate. seconds in a light box while plate. The first technique, a type com and danwelden.com or they were covered with an of sgraffito, involves covering his book Printmaking in the Sun aquatint filter, an acetate film the solar plate with printing (unfortunately out of print), containing microscopic holes. ink, then scratching off the ink published by Watson Guptill in These holes allow enough with a calligraphic tool such as 2001. His DVD is still available. light in to partially harden the an automatic pen or a chopstick. polymer and enable it to accept After exposing the plates in a gray images. We then placed our light box, we scrubbed them grayscale transparencies face in a water bath to remove any down over the same plate and unexposed polymer. After post- exposed them again. Voilà: an Dean exposing our plates in the sun intaglio plate. Then we inked the Robino’s to harden them, we inked them Sgraffito intaglio plate using a squeegee and printed onto dampened Print and wiped off the excess with Rives BFK, Hahnemuhle a tarlatan, a stiff muslin-like Copperplate and Arches Text fabric. The resulting prints Wove. capture the grey tones of the Dorothy Yuki’s original images: Prints The next Carla Tenret’s Intaglio: Louise Grunewald Workshop Workshop Grunewald Louise technique Top: Two Prints Bottom� Left: Greyscale involved Transparency Plate applying ink to Bottom Right: Plate the unexposed plate with a Raoul calligraphic tool. Martinez’s Some students Intaglio� Plate Friends of Calligraphy 3 Evelyn Valery Fielden Membership 1921–2017 Members contribute in many ways. Friends We are sad to report the loss of Calligraphy thanks Mariela Gerstein, who of longtime member Evelyn renewed after the last Bulletin at the patron Fielden, who first joined FOC level. in 1977. Evelyn died peacefully in her home on the morning of October 8, with her daughters, Jessica and Monica, at her side. New Members Born in Berlin, Germany, she escaped to England in 1939 FOC extends a warm welcome to our newest and emigrated to the US in members. We’re very glad you joined! 1944.
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