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.
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