Upcoming Workshops

October 24 & 26, 2008
Elucidare
Modern Manuscripts, Shining Examples
Instructor: Suzanne Moore
Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$45.00

Elucidare is a Greek word meaning "completely bright and clear; from lucere: to shine." How does one balance lettering and image on the page to make it "shine," creating an equilibrium between verbal and visual content, between clarity and complexity, between intensity and subtlety? How can an illuminating image be created without using gold? This session will include hands-on techniques as well as providing useful information and inspiration for future work. We will create paintings that originate with pen-drawings and consider the keys to the harmonious relationship of lettering to image.

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January 31, 2009
Copperplate
Instructor: Sally Keeney
Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$40. for Members
$60. for Non-Members (Includes a one year membership).

The class will be an introduction to copperplate, but will be a good "brush-up" for those who have taken classes but not used the alphabet for a while.

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please feel free to contact Penny White by email.

March 6, 2009
Emerging Letters with Timothy Botts
Instructor: Timothy Botts
Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$50. for Members
$70. for Non-Members (Includes a one year membership).

The goal of this class is to interweave letters with the background so that they become unified in a single work. The class will begin by painting abstract backgrounds to various musical moods and then adding multiple layers of writing in various sizes. Resist and stenciling will be employed to play with both the positive and negatives perceptions of space. Translucent collage and colored pencil will be applied to mask or blend awkward parts of the composition. Spray , splatter, salt and sponge will also be used to create both atmosphere and texture.

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please feel free to contact Dennis Willer by email.

March 7, 2009
Word Pictures with Timothy Botts
Instructor: Timothy Botts
Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$50. for Members
$70. for Non-Members (Includes a one year membership).

Using your favorite texts. We will write them so as to visually express their meaning and discover a powerful way to get inside the meaning of words. We will work through various stages of expression: paraphrasing, miming, gestural marks, grammatical sensitivity, creative letter spacing, uniform distortion, nesting and overlapping, writing on a path, repetition, color interpretation, selective flourishing, and layering. These will be learned by studying examples, demonstration of the thought process involved and student exercises.

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please feel free to contact Dennis Willer by email.

For more examples Timothy Botts calligraphy visit his website.

April or May 2009
To Be Announced
Instructor: Carol DuBosch
Capital Manor Community Center, West Salem
? a.m. to ? p.m.
$?. for Members
$?. for Non-Members (Includes a one year membership).

Description: No workshop description available at this time.

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please feel free to contact Penny White by email.