tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9363541216968447492024-02-20T07:04:14.643-08:00Pen and Ink CalligraphyHelen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-42767561058966245532019-10-02T07:01:00.000-07:002019-10-02T07:01:50.712-07:00Most calligraphers will have heard that Bruges is quite a special place for calligraphy and lettering art. <div style="font-family: Lemance; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 11.3px; text-align: center;">
Even if you haven’t, you may have heard of some of the calligraphers who live there such as Lieve Cornil, Brody Neuenschwander, Yves Leterme, the Boudens family; Kristoffel, Liesbet, Pieter and Joke and, maybe less well known internationally, Maud Beckeart and Jurgen Vercaemst. </div>
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In recent years the magical city of Bruges has become something of an international mecca for both traditional calligraphy and pioneering and audacious lettering.</div>
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Lieve Cornil set up her school first called Studio XI, now the European Lettering Institute or ELI about 10 years ago - one of her pupils, now a teacher on the course, was Carry Wouters who stepped in to teach at Festival 2017 at the last minute when Denise Lach was taken ill. It was after talking to her that I started to dream of coming here too. The city of Bruges was chosen as the venue for the Sunderland Symposium in 2015 which I was fortunate to attend - and now I am back.</div>
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I started almost immediately working on the November issue of <i>the Edge</i> - I had foolishly thought I was nearly finished with it before term started having made some notes of things that needed improving since my first issue - most notably the quality of the images. I re-evaluated my aims, which are, to produce a magazine that is full of interesting articles and reproductions of work to inspire and educate calligraphers and lettering artists. I want, while I am in Bruges, to be able to reflect some of the international scene. And of course I want it to look visually interesting. I didn’t realise how much I didn’t know about picture grids and print settings!</div>
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I have had a few dramas to contend with since arriving. First I fell off my new Belgian bike and arrived with blood dripping down my leg on the second week of term. Then more seriously I tripped over the cobbles in the street outside my flat and bent the fingers of my right hand back more than 90 degrees, and had my hand and wrist in plaster for 2<sup>1/2</sup> weeks. I still haven’t got full mobility back in it and thirdly I have had troubles with bureaucracy! I still haven’t got to the bottom of that and don’t know whether it is Brexit or the private nature of the course that is the problem but I am still waiting to be issued with a resident’s identity card that in turn, would give me the benefit of being able to park in my street, and visit all the Bruges museums for free and apply for the public liability insurance required by the college! I have learnt that I should not take these things personally and it is all part of the learning experience.</div>
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We start studying InDesign (which I use for <i>the Edge</i>) next term, but this term it is Adobe Illustrator we are getting to grips with. I am learning how to digitise lettering by way of designing cartoon cupcakes! I have learnt that the handles must be horizontal or vertical on curves on text and never use live trace.</div>
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We have all been studying Illustration as well. This monthly session has been a real treat for me as it was the subject of my original degree but I have never worked as an illustrator. Some of it is revision for me and but also a chance to enjoy half a day drawing. However it is important for all calligraphers to learn these skills because they are used to design and draw letters. I was fortunate to be able to do some much freeer drawing than usual with my left hand while I had the cast on my right. It gave me the confidence that my time here in plaster without the use of my right hand, need not be wasted. Our tutor is Astrid Verplancke and her uncle Klaas Verplancke, who wrote the award winning childrens’ book ‘Applesauce’, will take over the class in the Spring. I am really looking forward to this. (You may find the description on his website<b><i> klaas.be </i></b>of the making of the book and the differences between English and European styles, interesting.)</div>
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I have also been designing my own font or typeface. This has been a revelation. If I had discovered earlier how much I enjoyed it I might have had a different career. I started from an idea that grew during Yukimi’s workshop at Festival this summer.</div>
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Aside from a lot of computer work and drawing, we have two exhibitions to prepare for and a creative project with Carry Wouters that is about to start. We won’t be using computers and we will work with a partner to create a site specific exhibit. We are being gradually given more information and visit the secret venue early next term. It is called the w.h.i.t.e. project (<b>W</b>hen <b>h</b>ands and <b>i</b>deas <b>t</b>ouch <b>e</b>mptiness).</div>
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I am enrolled on the Specialisation postgraduate year so my course is very much individually tailored but I find it fascinating to watch and learn from Lieve while she is teaching the structured course that she has devised for the other undergraduate students. They are all at different points along the route but are learning the fundamental skills of lettering in a very concentrated and meticulous way, starting with Roman capitals and spacing and working their way through historical documnents and different hands through the ages with attention to detail, rhythm and skill. The results are truly inspiring. You can follow us all on our Instagram and Facebook pages.</div>
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I am currently the only student from the UK on this course and surrounded by other nationalities and languages though fortunately for me English is the common language. There is a bit of a divide among the students, the Belgian contingent who tend to be more mature, part-time and friendly but naturally they chat amongst themselves in Flemish and it can be easy to feel left out of the day to day conversation. They mostly live outside Bruges and drive in one or more days a week. The international students are mostly young, (apart from me) speak Spanish, Russian, Czech, and English and live in town. </div>
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So my social life depends on visitors from home!</div>
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Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-66744460139561770902019-04-24T10:09:00.001-07:002019-04-24T10:09:11.339-07:00Back to full-time education<div style="text-align: center;">
After many years of envying others, I have been studying full time since September, at the European Lettering Institute. I've also taken on the arduous job of editing and designing <i>the Edge </i>the magazine of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society (CLAS) clas.co.uk - I've been able to combine both and have published several editions of my news from Bruges in <i>the Edge.</i></div>
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We stayed near the park in a very modern yet compact airbnb with use of two bicycles so we could explore the whole city and get a real feel for how it all joined up! Our hosts were lovely and really interested in calligraphy. A friend of theirs, Maud Bekaert (lettter carver www.lettersinsteen.be) whose studio I had visited when in Bruges for the Sunderland Symposium in 2015, had offered to open specially if I called round - and on the wall in the bedroom was a Brody Neuenschwander original piece of work. www.brodyneuenschwander.com. Instagram @brody_neuenschwander.</div>
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Belgium doesn’t do furnished accomodation and a normal lease is 9 years! In fact I was told in no uncertain terms that 3 years was an absolute minimum and though it was possible to leave early, you had to pay a penalty and would be responsible for the rent until another suitable tenant could be found. We traipsed round numerous agents and some were much more helpful but I felt a bit long in the tooth for student accomodation! Fortunately I had been getting email alerts from a couple of websites and had arranged two viewings before I arrived. The first was happy to give me a one year lease and right in the area near the college.... but oh so depressing when I viewed it....</div>
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I must be mad - I thought - to be attempting this wild adventure. We sat outside a cafe in the sun drinking coffee and got talking to some locals about the Belgium world cup match that evening that was being shown live on a big screen in one of the squares. We decided to join them and ................................the luck changed and Belgium won......I started to feel happier and was enjoying the atmosphere.</div>
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Next day while waiting for more appointments we went to see the second place I had seen online....now this might be the one! It was on the first floor, with two bedrooms a balcony and the option of a garage and the landlords wife had English parents and he was happy to give me a one year lease!! Not only that, it is just down the road from ‘Simbolik’ a delightful shop selling all things calligraphic by Nathalie Beelprez who I have been following on Instagram. @nathalie_beelprez www.simbolik.be. There are so many calligraphers and lettering artists in Bruges and soon I will be one of them for a little while!<br />
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Since then I have been in touch with other students on the course - they come from Belgium, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Argentina, Colombia, Russia and I am the first from the UK! We are travelling over together for the Letter Exchange Conference and I feel I have some friends already.</div>
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Details are being finalised for the courses during the year with options for drawing, letter carving in wood, letter carving in stone, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign - This is what I really want to get to grips with and I will be using the Edge as my main focus for learning so I will be practising on you!</div>
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I’m writing this surrounded by boxes getting ready to take a van full of furniture and washing machine, tumble drier, drawing board and art materials! The wifi is arranged, deposits and fire insurance paid and there is no backing out now! My husband is staying home with the dogs, cats and chickens but we’ve arranged sitters and walkers so he can visit often and anyway half term is not far away.<br />
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Inspiration from India for my current print</div>
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I've recently gone back to printmaking. This time I have decided to learn about collagraph having previously worked mostly with screenprinting.</div>
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These early pieces are working out an idea to use the quote 'O time thou must untangle this not I, 'tis too hard a knot for me to untie' from Twelfth Night, that I had chosen to use for my piece for the Oxford Scribes annual exhibition.<br />
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This was the first time I had made monotypes by working on a thin sheet of plastic and running them through the press! I'd always worked on a piece of glass and made do with rubbing the back of the paper with a roller before...</div>
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I've now got my own small press!!</div>
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my first quick print using water-soluble inks and the lino from a commission</div>
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more collagraphs using lettering as inspiration:</div>
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this (above) is a poly-photogravure print blind embossed - the original writing was done with a pipette from an old acrylic ink bottle</div>
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collagraph prints on rice paper then collaged and cut out with a bit of gold leaf too</div>
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I recently completed the CLAS certificate in skills course on Heraldry for Calligraphers. Our tutor was Tim Noad one of the heraldic artists who work at the College of Arms in London who also happens to be a member of Oxford Scribes and a fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society in England.</div>
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One of the requirements of the course is to produce a major piece of finished work. I decided to do something based on one of the Queen's Beasts from her coronation - that of the Beaufort Yale. I was delighted that the US publication Bound and Lettered asked to publish an article based on this work. This is the wording used in my final piece:</div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 1pt;">The Yale had many medieval
forms but all agreed on its ability to swivel its horns as an effective means
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 1pt;">It first appeared in
heraldry as a supporter of the arms of John, Duke of Bedford, son of Henry IV
who died in 1435. His Yale was black with long straight horns and the grace of
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; letter-spacing: 1pt;">The earldom was revived a
few years later and conferred on Sir John Beaufort a grandson of John of Gaunt
and was passed to Margaret, Henry VII’s mother. The Beaufort Yale is of heavier
appearance, more like a goat but with horns, tusks and the tail of a lion. It
is white with gold spots known as bezants. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Margaret Beaufort and holds the shield with portcullis and arched royal crown,
used by Henry VII and now by Somerset</span><span lang="EN-US" style="letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"> Herald.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 18.0pt; letter-spacing: 1.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as usual the first stage is the lettering - here I have ruled up and traced down my design on stretched vellum. This is an old piece of vellum bought at SSI Lay Members Day and it is nicely aged and a natural colour.</div>
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After feedback from Tim I changed the tassels on the ropes to make them bigger and worked a bit more on the shading on the Yale.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In 2016 I co-directed our second CLAS festival 2016 at Leeds with Andi Bennett. (the beautiful lettering above was done by Judith Porch in David Harris's workshop)</span></div>
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Our accommodation was excellent being pretty new and all in the same block. We had an eventful start with very tired delegates after a long drive in the rain and less than competent organisation from the events management team of the university which meant we got off to a difficult start.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">However, our workshops got off to an excellent start with our brilliant and professional team of tutors of Georgia Angelopoulos, Loredana Zega, David Harris, Joy Daniels, Penny Price and Marlene Gray who were complimented on the quality of their workshops in our feedback forms and we all saw the results of this work in our second show and tell session at the end of the week.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our gala dinner was a lovely way to say thank you and farewell to everyone. We had a fantastic display of place names which were made to take home by the recipients – most of whom never found out who had made theirs – though one or two people did fall for our joke and wrote out a card for Ms. Ann Letterer!!</span></div>
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I have recently completed a very personal family tree. It was for the Art and the Letter exhibition at the CLAS AGM last year. I was enthusiastic when the topic was suggested at a committee meeting, saying "I have been meaning to do my family tree for ages!" So now I was obliged to get it finished in time to send off in February.<br />
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I have completed several pieces of work that have been collages and relate to landscapes and the natural world. The first was this piece that I worked on after being given the idea of layering tissue paper with natural food gelatine to stop the ink bleeding when doing a CLAS i2a course at Cheddar:<br />
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The second was an excerpt from the community poem Dart by Alice Oswald. I used the flow of a river from a trickle at its source to the wide old age stage, the rocks on the banks and stepping stones with layers of tissue papers. I used watercolour in the background and pulled the resist lettering forward through the layers with coloured pencil...<br />
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Next was piece started with Oxford Scribes and the late Gerry Glaister after a residential weekend for members at the old Wiltshire Study centre at Urchfont - now sadly closed. We worked on three different texts in the same piece...<br />
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Then my biggest commission for Salisbury Hospital; three pieces using the words of the poet in residence. The hospital overlooks the plains and countryside of south Wiltshire<br />
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I also drew on some ideas I had had on a workshop with Mick Paine at the CLAS festival in 2010 on rules and randomness</div>
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I have done two family tree commissions in the past - the first was all in French and went back to 1400. By the time I had finished it I realised I had hopelessly underestimated the amount of work required</div>
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Shortly after Christmas I started work on mine... </div>
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I had done a workshop on family trees with Sylvie Gokulsing at Oxford Scribes a few years ago and had been alerted to some of the complexities faced with designing these historical documents. I didn't want to leave anything out and I also wanted to create a contemporary piece.</div>
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I looked out all the information I had about the family. I had been collecting bits and pieces over recent years and two members of the wider family had done some quite extensive research so we had information that went back to the 18th Century including a semi famous painter on my husbands side and cobblers and cave dwellers from Herefordshire on my side.</div>
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Oh dear organising the CLAS festival of calligraphy has quite prevented me from posting this last year so there is a lot to catch up on! </div>
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Here is a little taster from last term's work by my lovely calligraphy class. </div>
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We were inspired by Edward Wates and Hans Joachim Burgert and I was thrilled with the work they all produced.</div>
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<br />Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-24412015728792501752015-11-26T15:26:00.000-08:002015-11-26T15:41:57.017-08:00Our first and CLAS's 21st Festival of Calligraphy<h2>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I left home at 6.35 drove in the pouring rain to Elim in time
for breakfast where I met Andi and Mary who arrived just a few minutes earlier
at about 8 o clock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Unloaded the cars in more rain and dumped the office things
in the room off the dining room which we have decided to use an office in time
for a meeting with Karen and Leanne from the centre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Signs had to be posted so we rushed around from door to door
generally finding the sign needed was not the one in the hand. Where was the
blue tack! Fortunately the centre could help us out here - tiny pieces for each
label. Was I using the most up to date list! We could not believe how many last
minute changes there were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">People started to arrive! Travellers from Sweden...must hurry
to get the folders out and into the garden room. Registration officially
started at 3pm but mistake number one was diplomatically pointed out to me by
Mary (who is an old hand of course at organising the festival) - I had
accidentally cut and pasted to everyone, the line meant for tutors, that 'we
were there all day and they were welcome to arrive early to sort out their
rooms'!! An accident on the M4 meant long delays for some and all had trekked
through bad weather and were tired when they arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Some key people were still missing...where were Scribblers?
The staff at their office were not allowed to divulge such information! Stuck
in traffic!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">A quick meeting with tutors at 5.30 - they are the reason
after all that we are all here but one is missing....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Then time for wine and a chance for delegates, but not Andi
and myself, to relax.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Last in to supper and all that is left is fish and chips! But
I had that for lunch! The last stuffed peppers were supplied. Now time to
welcome everyone to Elim and festival 2015, our first! I introduced the tutors
Gemma, Edward, Rachel and Sally-Mae - does anyone know anything about letter
carving in stone?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Right on cue in walked Lida and her assistant Russell - thank
goodness!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I breathe a sigh of relief and then someone gets up quickly
and their leg gives way. Right next to me he falls to the floor and I realise I
am the resident first aider! Help! I know one of our delegates is a doctor but
we also have two nurses too. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Unfortunately</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> we
learn later that Andrew has broken his hip before even putting pen to
paper and he goes off to A&E in Worcester by ambulance late in the evening
as his condition worsens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or spritzer. Not much in the way of soft drinks sold on the first night but we
hold back and need to keep our heads clear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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quickly decide who is doing the intro and the vote of thanks...after an
excellent talk by Rachel - first aid to the fore again as someone has a
fly in their eye and is very upset about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Quick update with Andi at midnight as the paramedics arrive
to take Andrew off to hospital In Worcester. We thank Frank for standing
in the road waiting to direct them quickly to the second floor of de Walden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">- I am lucky, I can go
and write copperplate all day with Rachel. I get back to the main building at
lunchtime and Andi has transformed the place. We have set up a little office
off the dining room and are using the raised area at the back of the dining
room for our exhibition boards and envelope display. There is a box for
presents for the last night and we leave out the means for people to display
their own work. This year we are resolved to get people to help us with the
bar, displaying work, collecting raffle money and changing the water in the
buckets in the classrooms. We find everyone is willing to do their bit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Jen arrives back at Elim after spending all night in
the hospital with Andrew and having no sleep and somehow manages to join her
class with Sally-Mae.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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happy with business. When they leave they ask to come back next year when we
are in Leeds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afterwards Sally-Mae practises her karaoke skills with the microphone ready for
Sunday!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Everyone is getting into the swing of things now. We sort out
expectations and teething problems. It isn't always easy to accommodate people
whose expectations of a class are different from the actual thing but we do our
best to address all the issues. Some things we can't change - there are no more
bedside lights anywhere but we do bring down a couple from directors and tutors
rooms for after the evening talk in the garden room. Wine sales are
steady and people are pleased with the quality of the wine. The subdued
lightning is a definite improvement and we have help with the sales. The Idea
of labelling bottles so people can buy a whole bottle and drink it over a
couple of sessions works well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trip to see the chained library, Mappa Mundi and Magna Carta at Hereford
cathedral. There is total chaos as we sell tickets and check those who haven't
appeared but find they have changed their minds. Finally the drivers and car
spaces seem to match up. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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their things to their new workshops until after supper on Monday so people can
work on during the free afternoon and evening so there will be no unseemly grab
for places straight after the end of morning session. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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afternoon and evening. We say goodbye to a few people and newcomers arrive and
are shown round. Several people say they are pleased at the chance to work
on undisturbed and most studios are occupied by a few people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I try to do two final versions of my piece. The very first
stroke of the second attempt goes right off line!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The Hereford people leave and Elim is very quiet. They are
delighted with their tours when they return. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Later that evening the tutors and I slip off to an Indian
restaurant in Ledbury and hatch a plan for a show and tell at the end of the
week rather than working to the very end and all dashing off or having to go
round all the different classrooms. The dining room is identified as the best
place so everyone can easily get round but we will have to get approval from
the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is a really friendly atmosphere in the garden room and it turns out to be our
best day sales wise. The bar is being very efficiently run when we arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">I make myself useful helping a beginner rule up eight
pages of lines and margins for Edward's class. But most of the work is done and
there are just final details for the gala dinner to sort out....what did Andi
say I needed to do...? I remember I have to check that there are enough gifts
for everyone, that the raffle is all ready and displayed for people to see
before a final chance to buy tickets. I organise volunteers to fold the stubs
after lunch tomorrow <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Reports come in of rooms left unlocked and even open after
being cleaned on changeover day. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Fortunately</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Another talk to get get set up after supper and we need to
find batteries for the microphone. A quick call to Dani helps with that, but
Gemma and I have worked out by now what most of the sliders control on the
mixing desk. Our biggest problem is that I had forgotten I had arranged for
Janet to do the vote of thanks for Edward and I ask Jenny too! They both
stand up but Janet quickly sits down again and few other than me notice but I
am mortified. Still it could have been worse and Janet is very understanding
but I know how something like that can make you very nervous and spoil your own
enjoyment of a talk because you are thinking about what you have to say at the
end!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The day of the final dinner! How quickly it has gone but we still
have a day and a half of workshops left. I have a meeting with Karen (Centre
Manager) and Tim (head chef) and sort out coffee arrangements for the last
morning and the show and tell, and final details for the dinner. We agree a
slightly later start, without having to keep the staff too late but enough time
for everyone to get their glad rags on and have a little drink before. We
include a bottle of red and white on each table and give everyone a copy of
their menu choices to display on the table in front of them because we know
lots will have forgotten what they had decided!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">We announce a quick welcome to the evening and get on with
the food. While coffees and chocolates (special gluten free ones for the
special diets arranged by Andi) are served we did the raffle. No wrapping this
year and no choosing but we still made over £400 which went towards the cost of
wine for the dinner. I introduce Marion who had arrived on Monday and
she says a few words. Then it is time to thank the tutors who after all are the
main draw; the kitchen; who had really stepped up to the mark, the centre staff
and the delegates - we couldn't manage without them!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The Drawing game goes really well - The tutors are
getting very competitive and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Edward jumps up without having the exact wording ready - he
is sent back....half the teams are running to the back of the room to Andi and
the rest are coming to me. It soon becomes apparent that the list (based on how
long I could keep a class of eleven year olds happily occupied at the end of
term) is much too long. We have a quick conflab and decide to shorten the list
by nearly half. All the words and phrases relate to lettering or Malvern such
as 'a really sharp pencil' or 'the view from here'. The teams must draw but no
talking or acting! There is a lot of running involved too! One of Andi's teams
wins but we keep going until we have second and third places too. We can see
that some people are already getting tired and those that aren't can join us
for a drink in the garden room. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in their keys and tidy up and pack away as much as possible. I take the CLAS
signs down - if they don't know their way now they never will! I overhear
plenary sessions in different classrooms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Coffee is provided from 11 in the dining room only, in
return for being allowed to use the dining room for our first show and tell -
but everyone is concentrating on finishing their work and don't begin to drift
in until about 11.30. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Show and tell has been cut down from the originally proposed
hour to half an hour so we are not taking people away from their classes too
soon. (There was near mutiny from one class but I was determined to try it). As
everyone put one or two pieces of work on the tables according to the class
they were in for both sessions they walked round looking and talking and taking
photographs. It was really good to have this half hour - and it was just about
the right length of time - to appreciate the achievements of the week. No one
thought it had been a waste of time. There was no need for speeches or votes of
thanks that had all been done the night before but it felt like a full stop to
the work of the week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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checking of rooms and counting of boards and stuffing of cars and then off home
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Project number two was to redesign the document that went with the Sword of Honour presented to Radley College near Oxford after the Second World War. I have also seen an identical case at Marlborough College. The new document for Radley was to be framed to go with a new glass case for the sword itself in the magnificent new school art gallery.</div>
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The work was to be on stretched vellum and took many hours working on the design of the arms. A lot of research is necessary and I have started to keep reference photographs on Pinterest. I have created boards of heraldic reference and I prop up the iPad on my desk to refer to when drawing out, refining and improving the design. </div>
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Finally I started work on the real thing. As usual it is traced through an Armenian bole sheet to give a red outline. The lettering is done first, then the gold, then the painting.</div>
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All the ruling is still visible and changes to refine the motto scroll...</div>
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Creating the metallic effect of the helm, armour and helmets is the most tricky area. This was done using watercolour rather than gouache paint. The final bit is always writing the motto on the scroll. I repeated the red rose from the compartment (that is the grassy mound under the shield) as a break between text areas on the final document.</div>
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This was the first of three heraldic projects completed in Autumn 2014 which I worked on simultaneously, trying to work the colours and gold in parallel on each piece. This was for a book and had to finished, on the same paper, before the book was bound. This led to several problems to find solutions to....</div>
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Firstly the paper was fairly thin, as it needs to be for a book, but not heavy enough to avoid cockling when using wet media such as gouache - as you can see in the photo below of the first practice design where the paper is bruised.</div>
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To avoid the cockling of the paper I stretched a larger sheet, making sure the grain was going the correct way i.e. parallel with the spine. But after working on it, I found on removing it from the wooden board it was stretched on, that the back was stained by the wood. This wouldn't normally matter on work that is framed but in a book it would show.</div>
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I sought advice from around the world via Facebook and decided to pack out the stretched paper with extra sheets to stop the stain coming through. This proved successful in the end and I was very grateful to the binder for sending me yet more blank sheets of paper!</div>
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I have been away from this blog for too long but for good reason and that is lots of work. I have just finished three heraldry projects and they take many hours of work each as the detailed progress shown in this blog of the working processes for my Oxford City Arms. I am writing one up to go in the magazine Bound and Lettered, an invitation that came about from a reader of this!<br />
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Together with the lovely Andi (below) we are planning next year's and the following year's Festivals for CLAS (The Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society) We both attended as delegates this year to Malvern, which is also where our first festival will be. The programme is planned, nearly all the places are gone and now we need to visit some potential venues for 2016 and decide who we want to ask as tutors. It is amazing we find any time at all for our own calligraphy!</div>
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Here we all are in Massimo Poello's class studying 'the dance of the calligraphic line' and 'Order and Chaos'</div>
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Of course we were really here for the Bible and that was brilliant of course - we had an hour of private access to the exhibition and a really interesting talk from Jo Bartholomew curator of manuscripts, who told us that it had been commissioned by Henry du Blois (grandson of William the Conqueror), Bishop at Winchester and completed between 1150 and 1171 when Henry died. The Winchester Bible is very important in enabling us to know how these great works were produced because it was never finished and that allows us to see the order the work was done on each page. </div>
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It is made up of 496 folios - that is more than 900 pages which would have needed skins from 250 calves to provide the vellum for its large pages.</div>
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One of the saddest facts, in my opinion, was to hear that a whole page, known as the Morgan Leaf was removed from the bible as late as 1820 and sold in 1912. It is now in the US.</div>
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A design for a friends birthday card, looking at positive and negative space and shapes within a freely drawn border. The black areas are cut out of thick white paper and some beautiful black tissue paper with silver flecks in it, that I bought a few years ago in Paris, is stuck behind. Some quick touches in gold gouache on the top to finish.</div>
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This is the finished book that I produced for a paper wedding anniversary present. The ivy is stencilled with soft chalky pastels brushed through. I cut the stencils out of acetate using a plotter cutter. One for the outside shape and another for the darker centres. I had to master an aspect of Adobe Illustrator first to get the outline shape from the original photograph in Photoshop. Not sure I can remember now exactly how I did it!</div>
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The words are from the song 'Just a little person' from the film Synedoche New York (2008) which was played during the couple's wedding and suited an informal lettering style which dances a little. The ivy is a reminder of the decoration at the reception.</div>
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I made a little slip-case too - to keep it in.</div>
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I'm hugely embarrassed but proud to be taking up six whole pages in the latest edition of The EDGE (The Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society magazine) with all the stages of my prolonged efforts to finish the Oxford City Arms in time to exhibit it with Oxford Scribes Write On exhibition at the Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock, which celebrates 30 years of Oxford Scribes.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I thought it was all over but by this time
the vellum was pulling the board so tight it was warping. It seemed the paper
on the back of the board was coming unstuck so I have carefully removed it. Then
I could see that the vellum was coming unstuck on one side. I replaced the
paper and left it to dry. Lastly I put it under a window mount before framing with non reflective glass.
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Inspired by the heraldic skills workshops with Tim Noad I am getting on with my piece to be exhibited with Oxford Scribes this year in our anniversary exhibition. It is the heraldic arms of Oxford City and I have included six shields of the better known colleges of Oxford University. The work is a personal project to put into practise some of the skills I have learnt at Reigate with Gerald Mynott and on the CLAS certificate of skills course with Tim. The writing, shown in an earlier post is a description of the arms and the blazon.</div>
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after doing all the lettering as shown in an earlier post I added the red lettering using a larger mitchell nib and red gouache</div>
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Next was all the gold - gesso with transfer gold and a top layer of loose leaf and the flat areas in shell gold. It was very difficult laying the gesso for the circles with a ruling pen attachment to my compass.</div>
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Now the fun part starting the painting - I practised first on an off cut of the vellum which I had used earlier to practise the gold on. Using scarlet lake I put in the red areas using Tim's wet in wet method and then the black with lamp black and a bit of zinc white.</div>
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I had to touch up the lettering on the words Oxford City to make it look more opaque.</div>
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While I had the black paint on my brush I did the tiny shield for Magdalen college - I know it is pronounced 'Maudlin' now!</div>
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Next colour the blues using Winsor blue mixed with zinc white.</div>
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I have also started to paint in the features on the lion over the shell gold using Vandyke brown - I used watercolour first and then moved on to gouache which was more successful. I mixed a tiny drop of gum arabic in too to help it to stick to the gold. I have also used watercolour - Paynes grey for the helm and shades of brown on the motto ribbon.</div>
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The edges of the shield have been highlighted in permanent white - top and left side and grey on the right side. The wavy bands representing the river have also been highlighted top and shaded bottom but the shield itself is left the colour of the vellum.</div>
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I have added shading and highlight to the bull and the mantling too.</div>
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The ermine spots have been added in permanent white on the elephant but still need enlarging.</div>
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The green beaver is a shade of Winsor green mixed with zinc white but the grass on the mound is using Winsor blue and spectrum yellow. I have mixed a little white and yellow ochre to tone it down as the colours recede.</div>
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At least two full days work doing all the tiny shields and using a head visor - it makes my neck ache a bit but at least I can see the detail.</div>
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and another day to outline the arms using a mixture of ochre and perylene violet....</div>
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finishing after the sun has gone down - so this was taken in artificial light.</div>
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This year's Christmas card was inspired by a visit to Ann Swan's open studio last month where I enrolled on a botanical illustration course using coloured pencils - so I thought I had better start practising! (www.annswan.co.uk)</div>
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Here are the two drawings I finished:</div>
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These images were scanned into Photoshop (had to buy a new scanner and printer to be able to get the detail and the colour to match - I spent some time researching Which? and other websites and bought an Epsom XP-800 all in one printer and an Epsom Perfection V730 Photo scanner - and I am very pleased with both). </div>
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I used the magic eraser tool to remove the backgrounds, copied the images and used a colour overlay to create the shadow effect and added some scanned in lettering of a traditional version of the Christmas carol The Holly and the Ivy. This was also overlaid with a dark grey colour to make it look more solid. The design went through several permutations before I ended up with this version, although I had a fairly clear idea of what I wanted before I started. The addition of the shadow effect suddenly brought it all together.</div>
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The new printer is much faster than my old HP one and I printed these onto 170gsm matt photo paper which really allowed the reds to glow. The printer can print much closer to the edges of the page so no need to trim each one - just fold, fold, fold, fold and cut.....</div>
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I am very pleased with the progress of my weekly class this term. Everyone, from beginners to more advanced, produced lovely books and it was a chance to use all those experimental practise pieces on the covers.</div>
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Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-30724941417584706822013-11-26T09:27:00.002-08:002013-11-26T09:27:45.033-08:00Students' work<div style="text-align: center;">
I am very excited to see how my class are getting on with their uncial work - here is a taste of what is to come! Here they are hard at work in the re-arranged teaching room.</div>
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It may look a bit of a mess but we also had a look at my collection of calligraphic christmas cards.</div>
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All now facing the windows for better light, more concentration and less chat!!</div>
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We've been looking at uncials in my weekly class this term. I've been inspired by a picture I saw on Yukimi Annand's Facebook page where she had cut out 3 squares from each of three sheets of paper covered with very different writing and joined them to form a concertina. </div>
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I suggested to my class that they choose two or three sheets of coloured Canson pastel paper and do their writing practise in gouache in different colours that relate to the paper - some light on dark and some dark on light. They should not worry about any mistakes because we would select different sections from the sheet to use as the back cover of a simple concertina book. The inside of the book would be more carefully written with their own chosen texts. </div>
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Here is my demonstration version, mistakes and all! I have used paper that I had in my store and would ideally have liked a very dark brown paper instead of the pinkish grey.</div>
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The backing paper has been stuck onto the Fabriano Artistico HP 90lb used for the inside, with Jin Shofu paste bought online from Shepherds - I have to look up the proportions every time I use it but now know it is 1:5 powder to water. This was heated gently, stirring all the time until it thickened, in a saucepan on the hob (it can also be done in a microwave, but we don't have one in my teaching room). The paste needs to be left to cool and sometimes needs further thinning with cold water. I know you can make your own wheat starch paste but this works out quite economically because I only use about a teaspoonful at a time and it is very reliable. The book was left to dry between two place mats under a pile of books and kitchen weights.</div>
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The writing was executed with a 3 1/2 Mitchell nib and walnut ink (I should have left it to dry a bit longer before doing the backing because some of the letters smudged a bit)</div>
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I used a variation of uncial making it taller than normal and narrower with a slight forward slope and some manipulation of the pen. My choice was inspired by flat pen uncials and one of the examples in Gaye Godfrey-Nicholls' new book 'Calligraphy, Tools & Techniques for the Contemporary Calligrapher' and the work of Vivien Lunnis.</div>
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The poem is Missing Days by my friend Sue Kindon</div>
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I look forward to posting the results of work done by the class soon!</div>
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I am doing my heraldry backwards! By that I mean I have just started a CLAS Certificate of Skills course in Heraldic Arts, with the hugely talented Tim Noad. He and I are members of Oxford Scribes and we have 7 other members on the course and 4 other CLAS members joining us.</div>
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We started two weeks ago looking at how to draw a shield correctly and then how to do it in paint with a ruling pen. Try as I might there is always an inaccuracy in my drawing. I am working on the homework now. Here are the early examples:</div>
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and some I did earlier - I'll show the finished ones later...</div>
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The backwards bit comes because I have just finished an Affiliation Scroll for the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. It has been a very steep learning curve and I have had advice from Tim through the roughs stages and the final piece. I couldn't have done it without him. The nearest equivalent commission I have had was to do the Freedom Scroll for Jenson Button's Freedom of Frome which I completed while I was studying part-time at Reigate with Gerald Mynott:</div>
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This is Heather Child's version of the Leathersellers Arms</div>
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My first go at the arms drawn larger than finished size</div>
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Practise version number two - I have corrected the number of sections on the crest to six, changed the motto scroll to a much better shape and changed the colour of the lining of the helm and the scroll so there is not so much red. I used Winsor blue with a touch of zinc white. I had the roe deer looking at you because that is how it is on a tapestry at the Leathersellers and on their website but I was advised that I should not change it - there is so much to learn with heraldry about what you can and can't modify! I have stylized the mound after Tim showed me some had done.</div>
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My practise version of 1st the Queen's Dragoon Guards Badge:</div>
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The three roughs I produced - the bottom one was chosen</div>
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This is the second actual size practise version done on HP paper using gouache not real gold:</div>
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At last I was ready to start on the vellum. I had a lovely skin from Cowley's. The lady I dealt with</div>
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So after tracing everything out using Armeniam bole on a sheet of tracing paper, I started as traditionally done, with the lettering. It is a delight to write on vellum and it always seems to look better than the practise one - thank goodness!</div>
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Next job is the coloured lettering:</div>
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Then I did the gold lettering using Ormoline - it did not go well and all needed scraping back - the lettering just wasn't sharp enough. I took to Facebook and got advice from Canada, London and Australia! </div>
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Now it's time for the gesso - I used a batch I had used before with success:</div>
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Transfer and loose-leaf gold applied, shell gold for the flat areas e.g. the deer and the re-done lettering and then time to start the fun bit - painting...</div>
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Here is the finished result - only about 4 months work!</div>
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Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-17052064806575883042013-08-29T02:31:00.000-07:002013-08-29T02:31:37.721-07:00Finished Work and New Beginnings <div style="text-align: center;">
Phew! At last I have finished the biggest commission I have ever undertaken. I will reveal all when I have been paid. I seem to have spent most of this beautiful summer indoors working. </div>
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I have taught three special workshops for my class and others and it has been good to meet people again who have been on my mailing list for some time. It is a time consuming process planning a good workshop taking at least a whole day to prepare and often many materials to buy in order to sell enough for beginners to try something out. It does not always work out to be cost effective either and I have decided I need to be much more business like.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">I have started by writing up some price plans for commissions so I do not have to make individual quotes for every email enquiry. I am seriously considering giving a discount to clients who make the effort to visit me - these commissions tend to be much more satisfying as I can get a real idea of what someone wants by talking to them and seeing their reaction to different pieces of work rather than by the stilted process of email where brevity can come across as rudeness.</span><br />
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I feel the need to educate clients more about the process of creating a piece of calligraphy - it really isn't the same as hand writing and it is the invisible process of trials, planning, ruling up and rubbing out that takes the time. The actual process of completing a piece is the most rewarding and sometimes the easiest bit. Don't forget the years and years of learning new hands, practising and developing skills too.</div>
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Now I want to spend a little time on some work for myself and I am going to start by finishing a book I started in an Oxford Scribes Workshop in June with Edward Wates inspired by his work and that of his mentor Hans Joachim Burgert, such as this below:<br />
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Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-63124929076851671122013-05-28T02:00:00.000-07:002013-05-28T02:00:03.219-07:00Recent commission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a piece I completed recently using shell gold for the decoration.</div>
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Well this is the final tally after two weeks work - not a lot to show really! I am pretty sure I shall pursue this interest but maybe with a different teacher - I would like to see how some other people approach the subject.</div>
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This is the one I am most pleased with but I didn't get to finish it as the method we were taught was incredibly slow and didn't allow for watercolour washes to build up the background colour, working only in layers of tiny dots of very washed out watercolours.</div>
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<br />Helen Scholeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09825918048712235413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-936354121696844749.post-13365663235956137672013-04-18T14:32:00.000-07:002013-04-18T14:32:14.192-07:00 Back to the Drawing board<br />
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Time to do a little more work on my leaves in the morning. I am sticking to dots for the camellia and hatching for the ivy. I am using a Gilot 404 now and sumi stick ink.</div>
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Now back to the challenge of measuring in three dimensions - I don't find it easy with the dividers - I would much rather stick to my old skills of comparing shapes and looking at negative space. I do spend a lot of time scanning the object and my drawing - but a bit like finding the sculpture inside a piece of stone I prefer to end up with a clean line from a very light sketch and then rubbing out the mistakes. This is not the way we are being taught which instead concentrates on measuring every single detail and vein with dividers and plotting it on the page. When working from a habit, or whole plant, this has to be done on an imaginary piece of glass in front of the plant so that everything is exactly life size.</div>
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