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Have fun creating beautiful lettering and improve your handwriting too! In this fun and challenging class students will learn historical handwriting styles and then put them to use in a variety of projects. Have fun creating ‘mail art’ and reviving the art of handwritten correspondence.
Calligraphy is the art of beautiful writing. In this art elective students will gain the basic principles, tools and techniques to create delightful letter-forms, words, and page layouts through a variety of fun projects and exercises. We will practice basic strokes as well as border designs and fancy decorative elements to hand lettering. This class will also introduce historical scripts such as Uncial and Gothic. Students develop a new appreciation for the written word and add a new dimension of meaning to language through the visual arts. This course requires slow and deliberate focus while also offering the opportunity for unique self expression.
Projects include bookmarks, ‘ancient’ looking documents, unique one of a kind cards and stationary, and a special sign for your room. Slide shows of historical to modern calligraphy, lettering and design will be presented. We will study and replicate historical writing styles used by early Roman stone masons (Trajan Capitals), the biblical scribes of the British Isles (Book of Kells), 11th century Northern European Gothic scripts, Humanist Renaissance scripts, and moderns scripts. Calligraphy is fun, rewarding and very useful, and quite addictive once you’ve made the initial effort.
– Develop an appreciation for the handwritten word
– The history of the alphabet and the lettering arts through history to today
– different types of writing tools
– different lettering styles
– proper techniques and habits
– fun projects: bookmarks, mail art, gifts, poetry, quotations
– illuminated letters
– resources for further study
Possible Projects: Cards, poems, accordion books, ancient looking documents, bamboo pens, bookmarks, patterns with letters, Illuminated letters, stationary, greeting cards and invitations.
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