Calligraphy: Capital Offences
Thur 24th April
10am - 4pm
Tutor: Mary Noble
This one-day, ONSITE workshop is suitable for complete beginners and those wishing to refresh.
Roman Capitals strike fear in many calligraphy students’ hearts; we’re going to break every rule in the book and create some wacky versions that you can use for playful designs that might just get you past that barrier and come to love them. We may offend the 2000-year-old Romans who invented them but that’s progress.
As long as you can write in ‘block capitals’ you can do this. We start with the inoffensive pencil, progress to various other tools, calligraphically conventional and otherwise; change the rule, and the tool, and you get a completely different alphabet.
Throughout the session we’ll explore a variety of possible letterforms, then have a go with an appropriate phrase. The fun is in the creating – it opens up new possibilities and makes us look at letters in a different way. And for relaxation we can do a bit of colouring-in…
