Next meeting: Saturday, January 11, 2025

Meeting at 10 am, Saint Matthew Lutheran Church, 800 N. New Road, Waco 

Making Marks and Letters with Folded Pens

 

From Jeanne Dittmann

Back in 2017 I taught a program and workshop on making and using folded pens. It’s time to revisit that tool with the guild. Please bring what you have but don’t worry if you don’t have everything:

• a folded pen only if you have one (if you don’t even know what that means, there will be extras at the meeting for you to try)
• some sort of liquid medium (ink or liquid watercolor)
• some inexpensive practice paper that takes liquid well (cheap watercolor paper would be great)

We are NOT going to be making folded pens this time around, so if you have multiple folded pens, would you mind bringing them to share? I will have quite a few with me (some for sale), but each one is different and that’s fun to explore. We’ll be talking a little about what the heck these tools are — they’re not broad edged pens exactly, and they’re certainly not pointed pens, so where do they fit in the calligraphic world? Then we’ll start to make marks with them and explore some fun ways to make letters from those marks.

It’s going to be all about play and experimentation. And that’s fitting for this tool.

Time for the Christmas brunch!

All

members
are invited
to join us for our

annual Christmas brunch on

Saturday, December 14, 2024, at

10 am at Jo Anne Norwood's home.

Details
in the
news-
letter.

Next Meeting: Saturday, November 9, 2024

10 am at Saint Matthew Lutheran Church, Waco, Texas

Neuland with Martha Cole

Neuland is a chunky typeface developed by Rudolph Koch in the 1920’s. As a calligraphy hand its blocky boldness looks great in combination with lighter, curvier scripts. We will learn the letterforms with our 5 mm markers. Martha is bringing some surprise tools for us to play with as well.

Martha, who is past member of WCG, has been our program presenter previously, and she is a member of Austin’s Capital City Scribes calligraphy guild. She has fun with the many hands she knows.

Supply list:
 5 mm Zig marker
White gel pen (optional, only if you have one!) 

Next meeting: Saturday, October 12, 2024, 10 am, St. Matthew Lutheran Church

 

Dry Embossing on Paper

Take your calligraphy to the next level. In October Francis Stoppiello will teach us to emboss our lettering on paper.  We will develop stencils of letters that can be used over and over. You can use your hand lettering and embossing together to upgrade your calligraphy skills. There are so many projects where you can add an embossed initial or word to enhance the look of your calligraphy art.

Supplies Needed:

·         5-6 sheets of 9x12 watercolor Paper, 140#

·         Card stock for the actual embossing

·         Graph paper (optional)

·         Glue Stick

·         X-Acto knife sharp with spare blades

·         Cutting mat

·         Bandaids

·         Embossing tool

·         Light pad (if you have an extra, please bring to share)

Homework:

Please lightly write a letter of your choice on a 2”x2” piece of 140# watercolor paper. The letter should be about an inch tall. Please do not have any thin lines in the letter as it is more difficult to cut and emboss.