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Showing posts with label Canberra Calligraphy Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canberra Calligraphy Society. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Thursday, 19 September 2019
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"
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
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Canberra Calligraphy Society Exhibition
Hello All,
If in Canberra or just visiting then this is a must!
If in Canberra or just visiting then this is a must!
Friday, 24 October 2014
Purely Pencils II - Day 2
Day 2 saw us using our colour pencils and graphite pencils on canvas and calico.
I've not used canvas before for pencil lettering and found the canvas we used to be a of fine grade and extremely agreeable. All sorts of pencils were used on these backgrounds, watercolours, Aquatones, Graphitints plus Neocolor II (which was another first for me). The Neocolor II worked well both on the canvas and calico but I did prefer them on the calico.
What I did love was the use of a large graphite pencil that Gemma had brought along and we able to use. I added a touch of colour with the Graphitints and have been inspired to do something with the idea for a finished piece.
All too soon it was time to pack up and call it quits for another wonderful workshop. The ideas and sheer enjoyment that comes from attending a workshop but especially one of Gemma's is worth more than you can imagine. If you have a chance to attend a workshop of Gemma's, whether in Australia or overseas, you really should.
I've not used canvas before for pencil lettering and found the canvas we used to be a of fine grade and extremely agreeable. All sorts of pencils were used on these backgrounds, watercolours, Aquatones, Graphitints plus Neocolor II (which was another first for me). The Neocolor II worked well both on the canvas and calico but I did prefer them on the calico.
What I did love was the use of a large graphite pencil that Gemma had brought along and we able to use. I added a touch of colour with the Graphitints and have been inspired to do something with the idea for a finished piece.
All too soon it was time to pack up and call it quits for another wonderful workshop. The ideas and sheer enjoyment that comes from attending a workshop but especially one of Gemma's is worth more than you can imagine. If you have a chance to attend a workshop of Gemma's, whether in Australia or overseas, you really should.
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| Graphite Pencil and Graphitints highlights on canvas - All rights belong with the artist - Cathy Sayer |
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| Graphitints on canvas - All rights remain with the artist - Cathy Sayer |
Sunday, 12 October 2014
Purely Pencils II - Purely Perfect
Week Two of my holidays saw myself and a friend visiting Australia's capital Canberra to do a calligraphic workshop with the ever talented Gemma Black.
The workshop was called Purely Pencils II and it was purely perfect.
The first day of the workshop saw us participating in an exercise called from Nature to Paper. We had been instructed to bring with us to the workshop, for day one, a flower and some of its foliage. The idea being that nature gets colour schemes right.
There is the perennial question whether sense of colour is innate or it has to be learnt by any artist. Gemma explained to us that if we are ever in doubt of a colour scheme just step into your garden and you will find the right colour combinations.
My flower and it's foliage was the Banksia. We were given an exemplar of Charles Rennie Mackintosh style letters and created the first letter of the flower in this script with a patterned background. Then it was on to determine the colours in the plant and match them to our watercolour pencils. We used watercolour pencils for the exercise because they were harder then other water-soluble pencils. Here was the exercise, looking clearfully at the plant and working out which colours we could see. I had a limited palette but had to mix greens to ensure that I had the closest I could get.
Once we had worked out our colour scheme and created a swatch (with some expert guidance from Gemma) it was now a matter of colouring in the pattern we had created with the colours on our swatch, ensuring we obtained the right balance.
I don't know about anybody else but there is something comforting in colouring in. Whether it takes us back subconsciously to our childhood or it makes us slow down but there was a quiet in room and the tension just seemed to ease away.
Colouring completed, it was brushes out and with just water go back over the coloured pattern to complete the final work of art.
I am enthused and can see endless possibilities for this exercise, just not the first letters of plants but names, etc. still using the beautiful colour schemes that nature affords us.
More examples of the class' work can be found on Gemma Black's blog http://canberragem.blogspot.com.au/
The workshop was called Purely Pencils II and it was purely perfect.
The first day of the workshop saw us participating in an exercise called from Nature to Paper. We had been instructed to bring with us to the workshop, for day one, a flower and some of its foliage. The idea being that nature gets colour schemes right.
There is the perennial question whether sense of colour is innate or it has to be learnt by any artist. Gemma explained to us that if we are ever in doubt of a colour scheme just step into your garden and you will find the right colour combinations.
My flower and it's foliage was the Banksia. We were given an exemplar of Charles Rennie Mackintosh style letters and created the first letter of the flower in this script with a patterned background. Then it was on to determine the colours in the plant and match them to our watercolour pencils. We used watercolour pencils for the exercise because they were harder then other water-soluble pencils. Here was the exercise, looking clearfully at the plant and working out which colours we could see. I had a limited palette but had to mix greens to ensure that I had the closest I could get.
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| Colour from the Garden - Initial work up - Artist - Cathy Sayer - Copyrighted |
I don't know about anybody else but there is something comforting in colouring in. Whether it takes us back subconsciously to our childhood or it makes us slow down but there was a quiet in room and the tension just seemed to ease away.
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| Colour from the Garden - Step Two - Artist - Cathy Sayer - Copyrighted |
I am enthused and can see endless possibilities for this exercise, just not the first letters of plants but names, etc. still using the beautiful colour schemes that nature affords us.
More examples of the class' work can be found on Gemma Black's blog http://canberragem.blogspot.com.au/
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