Illumination class

I had a great time taking an Illumination class with Susie-Melissa Cherry of Calligraphic Arts.  I am excited to have added screen printing and illuminating letters to my calligraphy skills.  

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!

Happy Holidays

The holiday cards making class with Shannon and Kayli at Oil and Cotton was fun this past Monday night. We not only got to learn how to make cards, we also learned how to make matching envelopes.  

Hope everyone had a happy Thankgiving...I am off to get stamps and mail cards.  Happy Holidays.

Demo real and holiday ready

I will be at the Dallas Contemporary this weekend participating in the 35 year anniversary celebration.  The DC is always full of surprises, so I wouldn't miss it.

At the DC at 3p on Saturday, November 9,  I will give a demo of each of the classes I teach at Oil and Cotton: 1) Intro to Calligraphy, 2) Pen and Ink: Calligraphy, and 3) Cursive Envelope Addressing: Calligraphy.  I will also have information about a variety of classes coming up at Oil and Cotton. 

I will teach Cursive Envelope Addressing: Calligraphy at Oil and Cotton next Friday, November 15, at 6:30p just in time to address those holiday cards and party invitations.

The screen-printing class with Betty Rodrigez and Jessica Trevizo and walnut ink making class with Matt Cusick were great! I love learning new skills and strengthing my calligraphy offerings.  

Hope to see you out this weekend!

Getting out of my mind

My last screen-printing class of the six week course with Betty Rodriguez and Jessica Trevizo at Oil and Cotton is this coming Sunday.  Preparing for class over the past several weeks has helped me stretch creatively and add a skill that allows me to make somewhat uniform, but not boringly uniform, reproductions of my calligraphic creations. 

Sign up for my Pen and Ink class this Friday evening at 6:30p.  I am going to start bringing snacks and drinks for my Friday night classes. 

Taking classes, giving classes

I am on week three of my printmaking class with Betty Rodriguez and Jessica Trevizo at Oil and Cotton.  It is fun.  Above is my two color project and below is a detail of my three color project.

As you can see, I am keeping it very simple for now, and incorporating text (that I wrote) into the prints.  

I will definitely make screen-printed invitations available as part of my calligraphy service.  I am happy I will be able to do that.  I will post some samples soon.

Also, I am so excited! I am going to take Matt Cusick's Walnut Ink Making class on October 27 and Shannon Driscoll's In the Studio: Cards and Envelopes class on November 25...both at Oil and Cotton. 

I will be teaching two classes coming up at Oil and Cotton...Calligraphy: Pen and Ink on October 18 at 6:30p (that's next Friday) and Calligraphy: Cursive Envelope Addressing on November 15 at 6:30p. 

Sign up now! The classes at Oil and Cotton fill up fast, and as you can see I love learning new things, broadening my skills, and sharing information on a subject I love.