We started on the Saturday with a short history of the period and Charles Rennie Mackintosh before Gemma did a demonstration of the lettering inspired by the period and Charles. We were then let loose on pencil and paper so we could learn the bones of the letters and how to build them up. Finally it was on to paper and ink.
After lunch we chose a short piece of writing that we had brought along, sourced from the period, mine was five words in length and from the Australian artist Hilda Rix Nicholas - "We are really truly here". We had to stack the words on top of each other. I did a practice run and then did the real thing on a pieces of rough watercolour paper. Once we were happy with the finished lettering, we then had to do some artwork to match the words.
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