Happy Holidays and Happy New Year

Well, 2013 was pretty good. I took a printmaking class at Oil and Cotton and I am signed up for an illumination class with Susie-Melissa of Calligraphic Arts. Those were my resolutions for last year.  

 

Next year, I am changing the class offerings I have at Oil and Cotton. Intro to Calligraphy will still be offered. I will add an intermediate class, in which we work on flourishes and small projects with the italic handwriting style we learned in the intro class, and an advanced class will be offered, in which we go over some design and typography concepts and complete a calligraphy project.  The classes will happen on Sundays this year.

The images in this post are details of my last project for the year.  I had a blast doing it.  I got the paper from Paper Arts. Completing that project has inspired me to take and Arabic calligraphy course. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

Snow Day!

I needed this snow day.  I am doing another calendar.  This year's calendar will be a color, screen-printed one.  Here is a detail of the layout: 

There will be two sales in Oak Cliff next weekend, December 13-15, starting on Friday the 13th at 6p: the Holiday Mercantile at Oil and Cotton 

and the Christmas Art Market and Open House on Marlborough with Gretchen Goetz and many other local artist.

 I will be offering on-site addressing in calligraphy (limit 2 envelopes with full address or 5 envelopes with a name per person...flat fee of $5 per session) at the Christmas Art Market on Marlorough on Friday the 13th from 6-9p and Saturday the 14th from 3-4p, and at the Holiday Mercantile at Oil and Cotton on Sunday the 15th from 1-4p. 

The color, screen-printed calendars will be available at both sales starting Friday the 13th. 

Hope to see y'all at both stocking up on gifts you can't get anywhere else!