(in person)
This is an in person workshop.
Please be sure you can attend BOTH days before reserving your spot:
Saturday, October 11, 9-4:30 and Sunday, October 12, 12:30-5pm.
REGISTRATION is now OPEN
Head over to Our Store when you are ready to reserve your seat!
Letters With Light
The Most Fun You Can Have With a Pencil!
Conducted by member Jean Formo
Whether you like to draw or think you can't, this experience is for you! Imagine the alphabet as a graphic dance troupe, and you are the choreographer. Unlikely partners move together at your bidding while form and line join together on the page. Color and light partner their energies to produce the Grande Finale! Learn a few new dance steps with graphite and colored pencils to create your own "Letters With Light" on paper and drawing film. Make a special portfolio in class to hold your latest dance moves!
Students Bring:
4-6 9x12 sheets of smooth white drawing paper such as Strathmore, 1264 Fabriano, or any fine Bristol (These could be in pad form or sheets)
2 sheets of black or dark blue smooth drawing paper
Borden and Riley layout/marker paper #37, 9x12 pad (or equivalent)
Assorted colored pencils like Prismacolor, Spectracolor, Faber-Castell Polychromos, Koh-I-Noor, Hardtmuth Polycolor, Derwent, Pablo Caran d’Ache
3 white colored pencils: Stabilo Aquarelle #8052 (Other white pencils will not work as well as this one)
Drawing Pencils with various soft/hardness: HB, 2H, 4H
Tombow Mono Zero 2.3 fine eraser with refills
Pentel Clic eraser (or similar style)
12 inch ruler
scissors
4-6 colored photographic images like a single flower, shell, leaf, coffee mug, butterfly, a few smooth pebbles, a fruit, small feather.
Pencil sharpener
Highly recommended: MUJI Manual Pencil Sharpener - Jean’s favorite for ALL wood-shaft pencils. Very affordable, and sturdy. Takes a polite nibble instead of a greedy gulp, and leaves a very sharp point. Available on Amazon.com. Get the one with the little square “ears” on top. Most other sharpeners, including electric, will consume your colored pencils very rapidly. This one makes them last.
Jean Brings:
Art papers for portfolio construction, drafting film for drawing, instructional handouts.
Cost:
Members: $150
Nonmembers: $165
plus a $12 supplies fee payable at workshop (cash or check preferable)
Class size is limited so register early! You can reserve your spot in Our Store.
A little about JEAN
An artist and calligrapher for 43 years, Jean is recognized for alphabet design and innovative one-of-a-kind artist books. Her paintings and drawings include watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, pastels and silverpoint. She has traveled throughout the USA and Canada, lecturing and teaching a variety of calligraphy and book arts workshops. She has been a 20-year faculty member at Minnesota Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis, and has taught at 17 international calligraphy conferences in the US and Canada. Her work has appeared in lettering arts books, calligraphy instruction manuals, calendars and in the greeting card industry. She and her husband Phil, live in Savage, MN. Since 1999, Jean has also been involved with the healing art of Reiki, as a practitioner and teacher.
refund & cancelation policy
In Person & Online Workshop:
You may cancel your registration for an in person or online workshop at any time. You will receive a full refund only if there is another student to fill your place. Your refund will be processed upon registration of the new student.
Class Cancellation
If CoC cancels an event, you will receive a full refund of your registration.