Alive and Kicking

Well you would think that I hadn't anything to write about or been doing nothing to interest anyone when in fact the reverse is the truth.
May was interesting with a workshop completed on Modern Calligraphy. The local community college ran a workshop on Modern Calligraphy which seems to be all the craze. Our calligraphy group is always being asked to run workshops on it or is there anyone who will do commissioned work in Calligraphy but they mean Modern Calligraphy. Thus with this in mind I decided to take myself off to the course. Of course being a classically trained calligrapher I would say that the calligraphy was more lettering than calligraphy and because of my training found it difficult to forget all the rules I had learnt. No 'x' height, no interlinear space, no pen angles, etc. which took some getting use to but by the end of the afternoon I was getting use to the concepts. I wouldn't say it was easy and thought it more brush lettering than calligraphy. Lots more practice needed from this calligrapher!

Later in the month a friend and I were off to Menai Library to promote the Art of Calligraphy. The library is keen to promote different types of arts and contacted our group Calligraphy Southscribes to see if anyone was interested in coming along to do hold an informal class. It class was a mixture of ages and there was a great turn out with about twenty people.