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Copperplate 101: Getting Started with Donya Wyffels
Saturday, March 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: PCC Sylvania Library
$38 PSC Members: registration form
$63 non-members (includes
$25 membership; please include a completed membership
form with registration form)
Class level: Beginner
Come
and explore the beauty and grace of Copperplate Script!
The goal of this class, is to unmask the mystery that is Copperplate Script so that anyone can write this graceful, elegant hand.
We'll begin simply, with pencil & tracing paper to visualize & learn basic strokes, then put pen & ink to paper. We will work primarily with Hunt #101 or Leonardt's Principle nibs and ink.
While the emphasis is on the basics of formal Copperplate, we will look at how Copperplate can be used to write many other hands that take on strikingly new personalities when written with a pointed pen. And how, Copperplate, with one's own handwriting, can provide a myriad of possibilities in contemporary scripts.
Copperplate Script has been around, with few changes, for three to four hundred years and is appropriate for many, many occasions. So, whether you want to use it for personal, professional or commercial reasons or just want to improve your own handwriting, you will have a good foundation.
Supply List: 2-3 Sheets of Tracing paper, 1-2 #2 pencils, sharpener, Oblique pen holder ( available at Art Media ), 1-2 Hunt #101 pen nibs, 1-2 Leonardt's Principle nibs ( I'll have some available for sale also ), Cotton rag to wipe nib, sponge if you have it. Inks, all of these work well: Sumi (green bottle), Moon Palace (from Paper & Ink) is a favorite of mine, McCaffrey's Penman's Ink, Higgins Calligraphy, Dr Martin's Bleed proof white (if you have it). 1 lined legal pad "Docket Gold" available at Office Depot, 1 sheet of Arches 90# Hot Press Water color paper, 1 sheet of dark paper, portable slant board.
About the instructor: My love of letters was sparked in 1962 in my first class with Lloyd Reynolds at the Portland Art Museum. I've been an artist all my life, but at the urging of my college art professor, I added calligraphy. I was amazed and fascinated with creating letters and have been doing calligraphy and illustration ever since.
I have attended Lewis & Clark College, Portland Art Museum, and Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Since 1994 I have been inspired and challenged in many workshops. Also, I have been fortunate to experience the encouragement and ongoing, advanced instruction from Carol DuBosch. Portland Oregon. For the last 3 years, Clif Mansley of Heirloom Artists, Lake Oswego, Oregon, has generously shared his expertise and precise standards of excellence in a wide range of calligraphic adaptations, concentrating on Gothic and my favorite, Copperplate Script.
• Published in Somerset Magazine
• Personalize ornaments for Neiman Marcus, Las Vegas, "In Circle " customers for past 3 yrs
• Winner: "People's Choice" award at the 2009 Oregon State Fair with "The Soul of a Word."