A Meditative Calligraphy Technique
MINI-CLASS (3 Hours) – Available through AUG 31, 2021
All Skill Levels Welcome
Calligrapher’s tool and relationship to consciousness
Description
Gina invites you to discover your body’s potential to develop the potent calligraphic qualities of movement, energy, rhythm, and feeling. To start, we engage the conscious breath to become present, relax, and slow down. Then, through tool exercises, we cultivate our awareness of the ever-intriguing calligraphic act: moving a tool and contacting a surface to form letters. By sensitizing fingers and arm muscles to the forces of stroke making—pressure, pushing, and pulling—we nurture a relationship that connects us to ourselves, our letters, and our world.
Supplies
1. Calligraphy as Art and Meditation: A New Approach, Gina Jonas. (Required for optimal experience)
Page numbers below refer to this book.
2. Artist pencil (48) – See page 3.
• Please follow the instructions in “Preparing the tool.” Video available in conference hub.
3. Conté crayon (Sanguine). Please prepare this tool as the pencil. (The marking substance is softer and takes a more sensitive touch.)
4. A large, dry “edged” tool, (approx. ½” -1″) such as a piece of:
• Square-edged chalk
• Pastel color stick (not oil)
• Compressed charcoal
5. Cloth wiper, moistened on a corner (for cleaning hands)
6. 3mm Brause nib (new) and staff – See pages 136-7 to prepare
7. Free-flowing ink such as Higgins Eternal
8. An ink well, (See page 140, “Ink setup”), such as:
• A large dinky dip (see JNB link)
• A very small, transparent jar
• An empty glass bottle of ink
9. Eye dropper or pipette
10. Wiper for cleaning the nib
11. Large paper tablet or a few sheets (14×17, 12×18, 11×17, 11×14 – or larger), suggestions:
• John Neal Bookseller, Calligraphy Practice Pad (plain)
• Strathmore drawing paper
12. Padded slant board, suggestions
• Portable writing board
• Portable desk set at a slope
• Drafting table
• If your paper is in a tablet, you can use the pad itself or a few sheets from it.
• For other possibilities, see my article: “Nib Contact: the case for the touch-sensitive writing board.” (www.ginajonascalligrapher.com, in Publications – scroll past the first large image, “the letter ‘a’ at play,” to the articles. It’s the fourth one.)
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www.ginajonascalligrapher.com
WORKSHOP LINKS
YUKIMI ANNAND
Sequence: Journey of Experimental Calligraphy
SUZIE BERINGER
The Unconventional Pointed Pen
GEMMA BLACK
Drawing the Fibonacci Sequence
IVAN CASTRO
Basic Rudolf Koch:
Blackletter Und Neuland
ANNIE CICALE
Value Contrast: Exploring the Grey Areas
Word Meets Image on the Page
BARBARA CLOSE
Letters & Blossoms
Graphite Explorations
SUZANNE CUNNINGHAM
Beginning Copperplate Script
JUDY DETRICK
A Letter and a Rectangle
CAROL DUBOSCH
Ben Shahn Lettering
JESSIE FORA
(M) Handwritten: The Art of Tattoo Lettering
RISA GETTLER
(M) Painting Knotty Letters
Visigothic Versals
TAMER GHONEIM
Gothic Lettering Magic with Procreate
Blackletter Circles on Steroids
MIKE GOLD
Breaking the Rules
Spontaneous Creation
(M) Variations in A
HEATHER HELD
The Glittering Vine
Victorian Frames & Labels
NANCY HILLS
(M) Learning to Sketch Out Celtic Knots
THOMAS HOYER
Dynamic Textures
Ruling Pens Beyond the Rules
The Alchemist’s Magic
CARRIE IMAI
Playful Letters
(T) Mastering Italic
GINA JONAS
(M) A Meditative Calligraphy Technique
SALMAN KHATTAK
(M) Pen to Pixels
(M) Lines & Tines
MARTA MAPELLI
Expressive Pointed Italic
Pointed Brush
HEATHER MARTINEZ
(M) Learn to Sketchnote!
HOLLY MONROE
Decorated Letters
Italic Lettering - Basics & Beyond
(M) The Business of Calligraphy
(M) Lettering on Vellum
SUZANNE MOORE
In the Glow of Gouache
Page Dazzle: Patent Leaf Gilding
LORNA MULLIGAN
Loosening Up With Calligraphy & Paint
MICHELE NIDENOFF
(M) Decorative Borders w/Simple Tools
(M) Watercolor & Lettering with Masking Techniques
CORA PEARL
Monoline Lettering with a 'B' Nib
Monoline Lettering Techniques
(T) Foundation Tune-up Class
SALLY PENLEY
Sensational Sumi!
(M) Pastel Dusting Technique
(M) Pleated Scroll Book
JAN PICKETT
Creative Colour for All Occasions
Embossing with Extra Pizazz!
Letters Unlimited
ALI RICCARDO
Graffiti Writing - The New York Lesson
Rudolf Says
ROBBIE SASLOW
(M) Playing With Pens & Pencils
Round & Robust: Exploring Uncial
Simple & Semitic
LINDA SCHNEIDER
The Graceful Marker: Pointed Brush Script
Calligraphy on the Go!
CAROL MEASURES SCOTT
(M) Captivating Color in Calligraphy
MARINA SORIA
The Empty Space, Womb of Shape
JACQUELINE SULLIVAN
Cold Wax Calligraphic Abstracts
(M) Calligraphy & Mark Making with the Gel Plate
(M) Mini Book Madness
JANET TAKAHASHI
The Art of Miniature Painting & Lettering
Sketching Flowers with Watercolors & Ink
NINA TRAN
Flourishes Unraveled
ELMO VAN SLINGERLAND
Broad-edged pen: Roman Capitals
MARK VAN STONE
Versals
Versals & White Vine Decoration
JURGEN VERCAEMST
Colorful Lettering Composition
JULIE WILDMAN
Akim Variations and Long Compositions
ELEANOR WINTERS
Gothicized Italic