End of Year Calligraphic Party

Wow, where has 2019 gone to?

I know I have had a few mishaps along the way which took time away from calligraphic pursuits but behind the scenes I have been learning lots about social media, tutoring and participating in Wendy Cowley's envelope exchange.

I was voted in as my calligraphy group's workshop organiser plus their social media co-ordinator, this has meant learning Instagram in a hurry which I have now also added to my own account. Their account is Calligraphy Southscribes alternatively southscribes while mine is inkdontdrink.

Next year is looking very busy, I have three exhibitions on one in July with a photographer and a painter then two with our calligraphic group in November/December. Truly, who has time to work. Just joking I need to work to pay for the calligraphy gear I buy and the occasional workshop.

This time last year I was madly packing and getting organised to do a five day workshop with Gemma Black in Mittagong NSW and another great friend and calligrapher. Unfortunately this year there is no calligraphy so it is back to work for the New Year.

I have promised myself three resolutions in 2020, more calligraphy, more writing here and less stress. Hopefully one and two will lead to three.

Have a great New Year! Cathy

Copyrighted Cathy Sayer

A Garden of Letters

Dear Followers,

Looking for something to do in Canberra during October then visit our fellow calligraphy society's exhibition.

The Canberra Calligraphy Society presents "A Garden of Letters"

Wednesday 2 October to Sunday 27 October

Open to the public 9.30 am – 4.30 pm daily during this period

Exhibition Venue

Visitor Centre, Australian National Botanic Gardens

Clunies Ross Street, Canberra

Double Pencils in February

Dear Followers,

Life to seems to take over at times and while I have been busy calligraphically, I haven't seemed to be able to find time to write about it. So to remedy that, I am going to copy my posts from Calligraphy Southscribes blog http://calligraphysouthscribes.blogspot.com/ to my own blog as it is still my own writing. So here goes.

The first Calliarts at Southscribes, for the year was Double Pencils with Gloria. Personally I am always perplexed with double pencils as I can never seem able to join the lines together to create that three dimensional affect that you are looking for but judging by the number of people who attended the afternoon it is a popular lettering form. Gloria started the afternoon by explaining the basic knowledge required to create a successful piece of lettering with double pencils; this included how to join the two pencils together, the correct position to hold the pencils in and what techniques to use to enable the creation of larger or smaller letters.

 
After a quick coffee break it was back to work, at which time Gloria supplied an exemplar of a style of gothic lettering created using double pencils. We worked our way through the alphabet and then some of us chose one letter to work on, allowing us to create a finished piece. I had chosen an ‘M’ to use as a decoration for a card I had created. Gloria had kindly brought in lots of wrapping and handmade paper that was at our disposal to draw our letters onto and some excellent results ensued. What I imagined to be an afternoon of double trouble turned out to be double the fun.