✒ 2009 Workshops Bulletin ✒✒ Pat Blair Annie Cicale Kristen Doty Victoria Pittman Julian Waters Sheila Waters Registration Housing Fill out the Registration Form and mail it, along with a #10 Hosts and drivers are needed for our out-of-town instructors, and stamped, self-addressed envelope and check made out to Wash- are eligible to receive a 25% rebate on class tuition. To volunteer, ington Calligraphers Guild for the appropriate amount to: please contact Vicki Futscher by e-mail at [email protected] or phone number 703.593.7643. Kara Koppanyi 744 Camberley Circle, #T-1 Baltimore, Maryland 21204 Monitors Telephone registrations are not accepted, but if you have a The monitor is responsible for introducing the instructor, question, you may call Kara at 410.769.9040 or e-mail her at checking enrollment, ensuring coffee supplies and critique forms [email protected] . You may also call Christine P. Tischer at are available, and enlisting participants to set the room in order 301.745.4633 or e-mail her at [email protected] . at the close of the session. To volunteer, contact Jennifer Nichol- Cancellations son at [email protected] or 703.683.0454. Refunds are given only if the workshop is cancelled by WCG, your place is actually filled from our waiting list, or if you find Reviews someone to take your place. Please give us as much notice as We need volunteers to write reviews of our workshops to be possible. All changes in registration must be handled by Kara published in the WCG Bulletin or Scripsit. The review submit- Koppanyi. If you cannot make the class, you must call Kara at ted must need little or no editing. Please e-mail Terri Barber at 410.769.9040 at least 24 hours in advance of the workshop so [email protected] . that she may notify any wait-listed people. Registration Information and Form

Please mark the box for each workshop for which you wish to register. Spencerian Script for Today with Pat Blair—April 18 & 19 $125 members / $150 non-members Keep in Mind Flowers and Flourishes with Victoria Pittman—May 2 & 3 Registration begins immed- $125 members / $150 non-members iately and continues until Gothicized Italic with Sheila Waters—May 16 & 17 four (4) weeks prior to $125 members / $150 non-members the beginning of the class. These are special three day (over three months) workshops. Please note dates. (Classes are full at 16. If there are not enough Roman Miniscules with Julian Waters—Sept. 12, Oct. 10, and Nov. 14 registrants prior to the $180 members / $225 non-members workshop deadline, it may Italic Variations with Julian Waters—Sept. 13, Oct. 11, and Nov. 15 be cancelled.) $180 members / $225 non-members Registration is assigned Drawing for Calligraphers with Kristen Doty—Oct. 3 & 4 in the order received, $125 members / $150 non-members with preference given to Relief Printmaking with Annie Cicale—Dec. 5 & 6 WCG members. You will $125 members / $150 non-members be notified if you are in Name the class or on the waiting list. If the class is full, Address your workshop fee will be City, State, Zip Code returned to you. Phone Numbers (home) (work) E-mail Address Are you a WCG member? Yes No Spencerian Script for Today with Pat Blair April 18�� & 19�� (Saturday & Sunday) at Vienna Arts Society 9:30am–4:30pm Beginner Level Spencerian Script, or Ornamental Penmanship, is the beautiful, flourished Supply List style of writing that was developed in the latter half of the nineteenth ✒ Oblique holder century. Almost a lost art, it is characterized by gracefully written lower- ✒ Your favorite pointed pen nibs, case letters, and dramatic and expressive capitals. such as Hunt 22, 56 or Gillott 303 or This introductory course will begin with an explanation of the tools 404, the G Nib or Leonardt Principal ✒ used, the basic characteristics of the alphabet, and the finger and muscle Good quality layout bond , movements needed to achieve the delicate hairlines. such as 9" x 12" Canson Pro Layout Marker A study of the fundamentals of shading, and the beautiful forms and ✒ Higgins Eternal, Moon Palace sumi flourishes of the capital letters will follow. An introduction to some basic or McCaffreys Penmans flourishing techniques will round out our class. ✒ Your favorite white medium, such as Bleed Proof White or About Pat McCaffrey’s Ivory Pat has been a professional calligrapher for 23 years, and currently holds the ✒ Mixing tray position of Chief Calligrapher at The White House in Washington, DC. ✒ #2 Her work has been published in Letter Arts Review, The Calligrapher’s ✒ Several sheets medium to dark Engagement Calendar, Scripsit, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Tabellae Insatae. colored paper Sharing and teaching what she loves is a high priority. She teaches at the Loudoun Academy of the Arts in Virginia, and has been on the faculty of several International Conferences. Pat’s love of pointed pen lettering led to her study of Copperplate and Spencerian letterforms. The International Association of Master Penman, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting recently awarded her the honor, “Master Penman,” for her work in this area. Flowers and Flourishes with Victoria Pittman May 2ⁿ� & 3�� at Vienna Arts Society 9:30am–4:30pm All skill levels welcome

Supply List In this workshop with expressive artist, Victoria Pittman, we will work in several methods to create free and spirited natural forms. This class uses a ✒ Graph pad (11" x 17") ��������������� unique combination of oriental painting techniques and pen manipulation ✒ Inexpensive smooth layout pad or to produce the nature/floral forms which will be rendered in ink, watercolor, drawing pad (not newsprint) and acrylics. ✒ Watercolor Paper, hot or cold press Botanical walks and plant identification on the grounds (if possible), as well ✒ Five sheets Stonehenge (white) as fresh specimens in class will provide inspiration for our painting. ✒ Other nice , both hot and cold Our final presentations will integrate the florals with our lettering. Silver and press (Arches Text Wove, gold leafing also will be used as a background for our florals in a collage-like Lanaquarelle) presentation. We will create simple cards as well as larger pieces. ✒ Oriental paper (practice pad) ✒ �/�-inch Automatic pen* About Victoria Victoria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Russian from Arizona State University. ✒ �/�-inch Automatic pen, optional A focus on historical linguistics in post-graduate work led to her interest ✒ Your favorite nibs in assorted sizes of letterforms and calligraphy. She has augmented her education in the arts ✒ with a focus on Oriental painting. She also has taken numerous classes in horticulture and completed the Master Gardener training in 1994. ✒ Cheap mixing brushes Victoria teaches watercolor, lettering, and collage workshops throughout ✒ Wedged Clay sharpener (�/�-inch)* the United States. Her classes are unique because she shows students how ✒ Happy Dot Oriental Brush* to use a broad-edged pen in addition to the traditional brush, to create fluid, ✒ Higgins Eternal Black dynamic impressions. Her work goes beyond traditional illustration, to ✒ Watercolors capture the essence and ephemeral nature of her subject. (transparent, several colors) She has been on the faculty of 10 international lettering arts conferences. In ✒ Several tubes of acrylic paints addition to her busy traveling workshop schedule, Victoria also teaches at (keep in mind floral colors) the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. Victoria’s work has been published ✒ Chinese ink* in numerous publications including: Florilege, The Artist’s Magazine, Zig Calligraphy Manual, Parallel Pen Wizardry, Art of Ink, and Letter Arts Review. ✒ Acrylic gloss medium ✒ Mixing palette ✒ Water container ✒ Paper towels ✒ Short quotation about nature ✒ Flower references (magazines, photos, field guides... or the real thing) * Instructor will provide or have for sale Gothicized Italic with Sheila Waters May 16�� & 17�� (Saturday & Sunday) at Columbia Art Center 9:30am–4:30pm Not recommended for “raw” beginners

“Gothicized Italic” is the name acquired in the USA for the hand that Supply List used to be known in England as “Edward Johnston’s Compressed Hand,” ✒ Smooth practice paper that he would have termed “massed writing” because of its rich, dense ✒ texture, akin to Gothic Textura; he developed several variants on its basic Non-feathering, non-waterproof structure. “Italic” is really a misnomer, for it has little relationship to Italian black ink or , or stick ink Renaissance styles of writing and is more an elongated form of 14th century and stone Batarde, a wide flowing style found inBooks of Hours of the period, essentially ✒ C1 and C2 nibs with Gothic in character, but allowing more freedom than Textura, making it a preferably straight, rather than useful alternative when a medieval feel is desired. shaped, pen holders ✒ In this workshop we will explore the structure of this pointed style and how Drawing board or portable desk it can be used to its best advantage in written text. Then we will stretch it ✒ Ruler to develop a modern Batarde and the variants that are possible in between. ✒ Sharp pencil Certain cornering manipulation is necessary to produce the refinement ✒ A few sheets of tracing paper needed in learning the constructions, and Sheila will provide individual help in mastering the technique. We will finish with suitable matching capitals. Plenty of helpful exemplars will be provided. Prior practice in Foundational will be helpful in understanding this broad- pen style as it is not recommended for raw beginners! About Sheila Born in England in 1929, Sheila studied drawing, painting, graphic arts and calligraphy at the Medway and Royal Colleges of Art from 1945 to 1951, then carried out commissioned work for publishers, libraries, museums, and private collectors while raising three sons—the eldest is lettering designer Julian Waters. The family immigrated to the USA in 1971 for her husband, Peter Waters, to become Chief of Conservation at the Library of Congress. Sheila’s work has been represented in many of the published anthologies of calligraphy since 1955. Her textbook, Foundations of Calligraphy, was published in 2006 and reprinted in 2008. She continues to teach workshops and lecture worldwide. She was the founding President of the Washington Calligraphers Guild. To celebrate her 80th birthday this year, she will have a large retrospective show at the Strathmore Hall Mansion in Bethesda, Maryland from July 17th to August 22nd. This is an experiment in scheduling one day for one hand for three months which will give the unique opportu- Roman Miniscules nity to practice between lessons. With practice and continued instruction, your letters should improve quickly with Julian Waters and your hand will retain the muscle Sept. 12��, Oct. 10��, Nov. 14�� at Columbia Art Center memory. Sign up for one hand or both— 9:30am–4:30pm let’s give this a try! All skill levels welcome

Supply List This workshop presents a step-by-step approach to Roman Minuscules (and matching capitals), starting with fundamental principles, structure, There is a materials fee of $10 Note: and spacing for serifed and seri�ess forms. After studying historical sources, to be paid to the instructor for a binder including Carolingian and Renaissance humanist writing and typographic containing 50+ pages of exemplars. ✒ examples, we will develop our own clear and legible modern styles with both Basic supplies simple and more refined manipulated serifs. We will also experiment with ✒ Slant board or portable desk bold, lightweight, and more playful lettering suitable for different expressive prepared for writing uses. Although we will concentrate on the minuscules (lowercase/small ✒ A good range of nibs letters), we will also review principles of Roman capitals and fine tune the including the largest Speedball, style to match whatever minuscules we write. equivalent Mitchells, Brause etc, and smaller Mitchells with reservoirs About Julian ✒ Good smooth layout paper, Julian Waters is the son of calligrapher Sheila Waters and conservator Peter ~ 14" x 17" Waters. He studied extensively with legendary type designer Hermann Zapf ✒ Grid paper for writing if it will take starting in 1979 and he was Zapf’s personal choice to succeed him in teaching ink without bleeding (optional) the summer master classes at RIT a few years later. He has taught letterform ✒ Layout paper thin enough to see design and typography at the Corcoran School of Art graphic design program through and make tracings and has exhibited, lectured, and taught in North America, Europe and ✒ Other good quality papers you like, Asia. His clients have included the U.S. Postal Service, National Geographic, including handmade/some with and The White House. He was typographic consultant to Maya Lin and the some tooth or resistance to the pen Vietnam Memorial, the Women’s Memorial at Arlington, “The Dreaming,” ✒ Free flowing non-waterproof black Frederick MD, and the new Visitors Center at Jefferson’s Monticello. His font ink such as 4001 or Higgins designs include the award winning Adobe Waters Titling, and publications Eternal include the WCG Scripsit issue, Work by Julian Waters–From Sketch to Final Art. ✒ Sumi, stick ink, and ink stone or Visit his website at www.waterslettering.com . black gouache is ok, too, but TEST YOUR INK for bleeding on different papers before workshop! ✒ Small smooth sharpening stone (Arkansas stone or equivalent) ✒ Small bristle brush ✒ Soft & hard pencils ✒ Good rubber eraser ✒ Colored pigments are optional as this is a letterform class This is an experiment in scheduling one day for one hand for three months Italic Variations which will give the unique opportu- nity to practice between lessons. With practice and continued instruction, with Julian Waters your letters should improve quickly Sept. 13��, Oct. 11��, Nov. 15�� at Columbia Art Center and your hand will retain the muscle memory. Sign up for one hand or both— 9:30am–4:30pm let’s give this a try! All skill levels welcome

Most of us enjoy our Italic but are still looking for the ingredients to take it to Supply List the next level. We will review fundamental, and often overlooked, principles There is a materials fee of $10 and study historical examples. We will analyze our individual lettering for Note: to be paid to the instructor for a binder strengths and weaknesses and improve it while keeping personal style. We containing 50+ pages of exemplars. will work on consistency, crispness, and life in the writing. ✒ Basic supplies From there we will add further levels of re�nement by creating more subtlety ✒ Slant board or portable desk and detail to our letters. Variables will include speed, rhythm, weight, prepared for writing variations in ascenders, descenders and �ourish shape. From there, we will ✒ move to more advanced techniques, such as the use of varying pressure, A good range of dip pen nibs including the largest Speedball, speed, pen angle, and cornering. equivalent Mitchells, Brause etc, and smaller Mitchells with reservoirs About Julian ✒ Please see the previous page for Julian’s biography. Good smooth layout paper, ~ 14" x 17" ✒ Grid paper for writing if it will take ink without bleeding (optional) ✒ Layout paper thin enough to see through and make tracings ✒ Other good quality papers you like, including handmade/some with some tooth or resistance to the pen ✒ Free flowing non waterproof black ink such as Pelikan 4001 or Higgins Eternal ✒ Sumi, stick ink, and ink stone or black gouache is ok, too, but TEST YOUR INK for bleeding on different papers before workshop! ✒ Small smooth sharpening stone (Arkansas stone or equivalent) ✒ Small bristle brush ✒ Soft & hard pencils ✒ Good rubber eraser ✒ Colored pigments are optional as this is a letterform class Drawing for Calligraphers with Kristen Doty October 3�� & 4�� at Vienna Arts Society 9:30am–4:30pm All skill levels welcome

Supply List You can draw! It’s just a matter of developing the right set of skills. If you have wanted to add drawings or illustrations to your calligraphy, but think There is a materials fee of approx- Note: you can’t draw, or need to review, this class is for you. imately $20. It covers fresh fruit & flower models, drawing kit, and misc. items. Drawing is the backbone of calligraphy and painting. Learning to draw ✒ Drawing pad advances both. 11 x 14-inch Strathmore Series 400; Through a series of demonstrations and exercises designed with calligraphers surface regular (not smooth) in mind, you will gain confidence in your drawing ability and improve your ✒ Sketchbook, 11 x 14-inch spiral calligraphy at the same time. We will focus on learning to see and getting that bound (paper with a little tooth) down on paper in various ways for a variety of effects from gestural sketching ✒ Woodless graphite pencils: HB, 2B, to more realistic illustration. We will explore form, some color theory and a 4B, Pentalic Graphite 8911 little design/composition to help you integrate text and drawing. ✒ Other drawing pencils that you already have: 2H, HB, 2B, etc. About Kristen Kristen Doty has had a passion for calligraphy, drawing and painting ✒ Pencil sharpener ✒ for a long time and is a perpetual student. Kristen explores new tech- Pentel Click Eraser niques through practice, studying books and magazines and by participating ✒ Mars Plastic white eraser in local classes, regional workshops, and international conferences. ✒ 12-inch ruler (30.48cm) Her freelance work includes (My favorite is an inexpensive C-Thru clear plastic ruler. It has a red mark every calligraphy, painting, �/�" and sometimes a bevel.) illustration, graphic ✒ permanent marker design, and teaching. Her paintings, illus- ✒ Colored pencils, artist quality ( set of 12 or more OR True trations and Blue #903, Process Red #994, or Lemon lettering have Yellow #915� been published ✒ Folded ruling pen and holder and/or in magazines, and other ruling you have as posters, greeting ✒ Flexible pointed nib and holder cards, logos and book (not too sharp; Brause Steno Pen #361) titles. Please visit ✒ Higgins Eternal Ink/your favorite ink her website at ✒ Small water container www.kristendoty.com . ✒ Paper towels or pen rag ✒ Optional supplies: stylus or embossing tool, X-acto knife, Pigma Micron markers, your favorite calligraphy nibs, Speedball “C” or “B” nibs, (.5mm HB or B) If you have any questions regarding the materials or the workshop, please contact Kristen at [email protected] . Please note: We will not draw portraits or anything scary like that. Relief Printmaking with Annie Cicale December 5�� & 6�� at Vienna Arts Society 9:30am–4:30pm All skill levels welcome (some drawing experience is helpful)

As old as history, printmaking is a way to make multiple copies of an image, Supply List giving collectors an affordable way to acquire work by favorite artists. A lab fee will include printing blocks, Relief printmaking has come a long way from the battleship linoleum, hard printing , and the use of many print- as a rock and hard to carve. We will begin with design exercises, adapting our making tools. Instructor will have some skills and ideas to this media. We will work with some of the newer carving printing papers for sale. media and then learn to print the plates, both by hand and on a small press. ✒ Photos/sketchbook of treasured Students will be able to print in a simple studio set up even if they don’t have images for inspiration access to a printmaking studio. You’ll have many images to share. Your prints ✒ Tracing paper can be used as greeting cards, wall pieces or the start of an artist’s book. ✒ Pencils/erasers ✒ About Annie Pallette and/or putty knives ✒ ® Annie Cicale teaches calligraphy, drawing and painting throughout the Speedball linoleum carving tools United States and Canada. Fascinated by writing as a child, her first Osmiroid ✒ Woodcarving tools (if you have them) led her to the world of calligraphy. She has experimented with ✒ Brayer (if you have one) the word as image in her paintings, bringing a visual expression to the words ✒ Variety of printmaking papers: to expand their meaning. Annie incorporates both abstract and illustrative Stonehenge, Velata, Arches Cover or imagery in her paintings. Rives. Instructor will have some as part of lab fee and others for sale. Bring She is the author of The Art what you have; clean out that box of paper and Craft of Hand Lettering, under the bed! Papers come ~ 22" x 30" or a 2004 publication of Lark larger; don’t cut smaller than 15" x 22" for Books. Her work has been transport. White and off white for traditional printing; black and other colors published in many of the work well, too. calligraphic anthologies and ✒ Inexpensive paper for drawing and the Calligraphers Engagement proofing, such as newsprint/old Calendar, and she has been computer printouts ✒ on the faculty of most of Asian papers: Mulberry, Hosho, Kozo, the international calligraphy etc. (white/ones with small inclusions) ✒ Rubber stamp pad for proofing conferences. ✒ Printing baren if you have one, or wooden spoon ✒ Paint rags ✒ Old bath or dish towel ✒ Roll paper towels ✒ Bone folder ✒ Apron or paint shirt ✒ Scraps of textured papers, including sand paper, foils, etc. both smooth and rough, to use on collage printing plate (collograph), other textured materials, such as netting, doilies, string, etc., bits of flat plastic or metal ✒ Scissors Past Winners of The Graceful Envelope Contest

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Enter Today! Credits from left to right Top Jerry Hobart Catherine Langsdorf Sue McKendrick Middle Julie Gray Yukimi Annand Bottom Rhonda Robison Shane Perry Locations and Directions Columbia Art Center Vienna Arts Society 6100 Foreland Garth (Long Reach Village Center) 115 Pleasant Street Columbia, MD Vienna, VA 22180 410.730.0075 703.319.3971 (Hours: 10am-4pm, Tues-Sat) www.columbiaartcenter.org www.viennaartssociety.com Take I-95 to Rt. 175 toward Columbia. Turn right onto From Route 66 Snowden River Parkway. Turn left onto Tamar Drive. Turn Take the Nutley Street exit towards Vienna. Go straight left into the Long Reach Village Center (Foreland Garth) through three (3) lights. At fourth light take a right onto and park. (The Art Center is on the other side of the Rt. 123/Maple Ave. Go approximately one mile and make a supermarket.) left onto Pleasant Street (a Shell Gas Station is on the right where you will turn left). Proceed one and a half blocks. VAS is on the right. From 495 Take the Rt. 123 South exit. Go past Tysons Corner—from International Blvd. you will go straight through 13 lights. (Landmarks you will pass: Tysons Corner, Giant Food, We are always looking for new Outback Steakhouse, Starbucks, Money & King Funeral comfortable and affordable locations. Home, and Marco Polo.) As soon as you pass Marco Polo, Do you know of any in your area? you will turn right onto Pleasant St. Proceed one and a half blocks. VAS is on the right.

Don’t forget to enter! The deadline is April 30th. Basic Supply List Please check the supply list for each workshop as all of the items below may not be necessary.

• Drawing board • Pillow or cushion • T-square • 11" x 17" paper (i.e. grid, 16 lb. layout paper, paper for pens, etc.) • Pencils • Toolbox • Black inks • Assorted pen nibs (Mitchell, Speedball, etc.) • Pen nib holders • Chisel point markers • Watercolor markers or colored pencils • Kleenex, paper towels, or rags • Water jar • Gouache • Containers or palettes for color mixing • Brushes for color mixing • Scissors or X-acto knife • Drafting tape • Eraser 2009 Workshops April October 18 & 19 Spencerian Script for Today with Pat Blair 3 & 4 Drawing for Calligraphers with Kristen Doty 10 Roman Miniscules with Julian Waters (2 of 3) May 11 Italic Variations with Julian Waters (2 of 3) 2 & 3 Flowers and Flourishes with Victoria Pittman 16 & 17 Gothicized Italic with Sheila Waters November 14 Roman Miniscules with Julian Waters (3 of 3) September 15 Italic Variations with Julian Waters (3 of 3) 12 Roman Miniscules with Julian Waters (1 of 3) December 13 Italic Variations with Julian Waters (1 of 3) 5 & 6 Relief Printmaking with Annie Cicale

Registration Deadlines Recently, some of our workshops have been cancelled due to low enrollment. This year’s workshops are given to you for the entire year, allowing everyone time to schedule far enough in advance to make a commitment. We ask that you register at least four weeks prior to a class so that travel plans, hosting, and monitor responsibilities can be scheduled. We will take a few late registrations (those coming less than four weeks prior to the class), so if you suddenly find you are able to attend, please call Kara to see if there are any extra places to fill.

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