Italics Calligraphy Masterclass
What you'll learn
- Write beautiful letters in ITALICS.
- Hand-write a certificate of achievement and a Thank You note.
Requirements
- Find yourself a parallel pen (ou equivalent) & some good quality paper to run through your printer for the handouts.
- Oh! and a dose of perseverance is useful, too! No previous experience in CALLIGRAPHY is necessary.
- You don't need to be particularly artistically inclined ... you just need a desire to learn!
Description
This is a course for beginner-intermediate calligraphers. No previous experience is required to take it, nor does it require any special artistic talent. What you DO need is the desire to learn and to practise!
We will be using parallel pens for our calligraphy, not dip pens. You will need at least one parallel pen (I recommend the 3.8 mm nib). You'll need to be able to print the practise sheets (PDF's) on good quality white printer paper.
There are a ton of exercises for you to do that will help you improve your calligraphy, as well as two projects (a thank you card and a certificate).
Who this course is for:
- Young or old, right-handed or left-handed, artistically gifted or not - anyone can learn traditional ITALICS CALLIGRAPHY!
Course content
- Preview05:34
- Preview01:32
- 00:36Glossary: Calligraphy jargon that you'll need to get familiar with
- 04:35Guidelines: keeping to the straight and narrow!
- 00:06Paper position & a word to my left-handed friends
Instructor
![Mary-Jane Roussel](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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If you believe in reincarnation, I must have been a monk-scribe in a former life! How else can this love for hand-drawn letters be explained?
As a fashion designer-in-training, calligraphy was an option I took in my final year. Since then, practising and teaching the art of beautiful writing has been one of my major occupations.
For more than twenty years, I have been giving calligraphy courses to adults and children in the south of France, where I now reside. I particularly like working in places steeped in medieval history (like the Chartreuse at Villeneuve lez Avignon) or in classrooms where kids are positively insatiable when it comes to learning to use pen and ink or other traditional tools such as the calame.
Online classes are now the main activity of the non-profit group that I preside.