Swirls and Twirls: Calligraphic Flourishing on Fabric and Paper
$135
Lisa Engelbrecht
Student Level: All levels
The new hot adornment on everything from soup to skateboards is the flourish. We’ll take lettering and art tools and learn to pirouette on paper and fabric. Various media will be introduced and the artist will be introduced to new tools like the Parallel Pen, dimensional paints and Wite Out pens. The modern scribble is neat behind your collages and journal pages. Doodling sinuous thick and thin lines and other exercises will be our experiments. We’ll follow the linear route of calligraphy-with out having to learn calligraphy.
The artist will review the traditional flourishes of early 19th century handwriting for inspiration and try the original vintage pointed pen adding their own marks. Simple wash techniques will provide a background for flourishes, creative flowers and swirls making personal intuitive marks. This is also a great way to release stress while making fabulous art. The artist will come away from the class with many paper and fabric backgrounds flourished and ready to be collaged or to be used as journal or book covers
Kit Fee of $10 payable to instructor at class time includes use of Inks, acrylic inks, metallic powders, dimensional paint, Gesso, Vintage Pen nibs, Walnut Ink and play fabric and paper and handout
Supplies provided by Instructor -Inks , brushes, a few parallel pens, stencils , sprays, many calligraphic tools to try
Supply List:
One yard of Smooth unprimed 7 oz canvas- or what you can find-Daniel Smith.com or your local art store
One or two yards of cotton muslin-don’t wash ahead of time (available at Joanns)
Papers with various surfaces, different colors
A pad of Bristol paper
A variety of liquid paints you like-inks, gouache, liquid acrylics, watercolors-what you already have - I will provide a lot of paints to try
A bottle of FW white acrylic ink
Pointed watercolor brushes-smaller sizes
Eye Dropper or pipette
Micron markers, Pitt pens, Sharpies, Glaze and Lightning Bolt gel pens
Pencils, regular and color
Toothbrush.
Any calligraphy pens you have, Zig markers are available at target
Regular Pen holder-not for crow quill
Plastic palette-6 well
Scissors
Sprayer- I recycle small hair spray bottles
Optional: Parallel Pen size 6.0 available at www.paperinkarts.com
Questions? Email Lisa at lengelbrecht@earthlink.net
Web site: www.lisaengelbrecht.com
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