Get Ready for the New Year...Year of the Snake!

The 2013 Year of the Snake calendars are now available at Oil and Cotton...swing by and get some for great teachers' and co-workers' gifts or terrific stocking stuffers...only $12.50!

Also, be sure to click here and sign up the Intro to Calligraphy workshop (January 10 from 10a-12:30p or January 11 from 6:30p-9p).  Sign up before you have to put in on you New Year's Resolution list. Wishing you Happy Holidays and a Joyful New Year!

Year of the Snake Calendar this weekend and 'Django Unchained' Christmas Day...

Be sure to get out to the Christmas Art Market and Open House happening this Saturday, November 15, from 11a-4p.  Gretchen Goetz, Scott Winterrowd, Brian Jones, Erik Tosten, Gillan Bradshaw-Smith, Stephanie Sanoja, Rachel Deering, Annie Bryd Goetz, Karen Smith, Vincent Villatrance, and me, Andrea Estrada will be selling items in the market. 

You can get one of my 2013 Year of the Snake calendars there and get your name entered in the drawing for two movie passes to see Django Unchained at the Magnolia Theatre Christmas day with the purchase of the calendar...you don't have to be present to win.  I got the chance to be an extra in Django...and I am a huge Tarantino fan, so I will be having a viewing party at the Magnolia that night (Tuesday, December 25).  See you Saturday!
                 
                   
                   

Saturday Holiday Cards Workshop at Oil and Cotton

This Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 1:30-3p at Oil and Cotton learn how to layout and print your own cards in my Intro to Calligraphy/ Holiday Greetings workshop.  I will mainly cover layout and printing set-up, but I will also briefly cover Italic handwriting and envelope addressing.  Sign up here before the class fills up.  See you soon!

Upcoming workshop in December

Busy week!...Three workshops at Oil and Cotton between last Thursday and today, and a FB post on the Museum of Bad Art page of a painting that I never thought I would see again...look closely and you can see the good calligraphy on the bad painting.

Stayed tuned for more info about my upcoming workshop Holiday Cards at Oil and Cotton on December 1st.

Beat the holiday rush....

Well, the Cursive Envelopes workshop at Oil and Cotton is about a week away (November 8 at 10a and November 9 at 6:30p).  Sign-up is going nicely...so sign up before the calligraphy workshops fill up!

I will cover how to beautifully address envelopes.  I will also cover project layout in order to help generate some handmade gift ideas.  See you next week at Oil and Cotton!

Don't forget I can address your holiday cards, holiday invites, save-the-dates, wedding invites, and more for you...but please don't miss the class.

Get ready for the holiday season...

Thanksgiving is just four weeks away!  Prime-time to send out holiday cards is the day after Thanksgiving.  Many wedding invitations and save-the-date cards also go out during this time of year. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to address those envelopes yourself with beautiful calligraphy?  Wouldn't it also be nice to be able to write out place cards, tags, cards, or handmade gifts? You can learn how by taking my next workshop at Oil and Cotton, Cursive Envelopes...November 8 (10a-12:30p) or November 9 (6:30-9p).  Click here and sign up! 

Make it a morning with 'Pen and Ink'

My Pen and Ink calligraphy workshop takes place at Oil and Cotton tomorrow morning at 10a.  I will cover Foundational Hand and we will make some cute little accordion style booklets in which to write a special note.   Click here and sign up!

Halloween is almost here, so that means Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and it's almost time to send out those holiday cards.  My next calligraphy workshop, Cursive Envelopes, will be offered on November 8 at 10a or November 9 at 6:30p...just in time to get you penmanship up to par! Beat the holiday rush and sign up here.

See y'all tomorrow at Oil and Cotton!

Fall Calligraphy Classes at Oil and Cotton

I meant to post last month. Sorry, things got a little crazy…

Anyway, I had an Intro to Calligraphy class last month on Friday, September 21 at Oil and Cotton.  In the Intro... class students learn flourished Italic and a few other tips (if you missed it...stay tuned for the spring classes).

Next Thursday (October 18) from 10a-12:30p will be the Pen and Ink class in which you could learn Foundational Hand and how to make some small accordion style booklets.  Click and sign up! 

Pen and Ink will be followed by Cursive Envelopes...being offered on November 8 (10a-12:30p) or November 9 (6:30-9p).

Finished the poem!

Here is a look at the finished product...

...the ceramic piece in the background is by artist and woodworker, Erik Tosten

I will have more for y'all soon ;)

Pen and Ink Workshop this coming Friday!

Getting ready for the pen and ink calligraphy workshop at Oil and Cotton on Friday, May 25 at 6:30 'til 9p.  I will be covering Foundational Hand with pen and ink as well as these cute little booklets you can write your own special message in.  I got the idea for the booklets from Mystic Blue Signs in New Orleans.  The calligrapher, Eve Rutledge, made them (the ones I wrote in that were photographed by Shannon Driscoll). I love them and want to share them with my friends here in Dallas.  I made the one below (first attempt; I am going to make some adjustments).
 

D Magazine is having their Best of Big D 2012 voting for various services.  Here is the link! 

http://surveys.dmagazine.com/bestofbigd2012-services/vote/3

I would like to shout out to my calligraphy teacher Susie-Melissa Cherry of Calligraphic Arts...thank you for everything! 

Quick pic with note...

Laying out Invictus for a friend...

I will post the final product soon...

:)

Unchained and lots of calligraphy!

I have been away from the blog for a while...sorry.

I was an extra in Django Unchained, and I had tons of wonderful calligraphy work...thanks to BESPOKE (April 28) at the Dallas Contemporary, Kristen Knight of Shenanigans, and Marion Marshall of Absolutely Blooming! 

I also had the pleasure of participating in the Arboretum Stroll on April 4.  It was lovely.  Brides, that event is a great place to meet some dynamic and capable vendors for your wedding needs...don't miss it next year! Here are some pics of my spread for the Stroll and a table arrangement by Absolutely Blooming:  

Last Friday, I also had a great time teaching another Intro to Calligraphy workshop at Oil and Cotton (picture below from last Friday).  I have a workshop coming up on May 25, 2012.  That one will cover Foundational Hand (sample of a poem I wrote in Foundational Hand below) using pen and ink.  Students for that course will also learn to make accordion-style books that they can write their own special message in.  Look for more calligraphy workshops from me this summer and fall with Oil and Cotton!

I will write again soon.  :)