Calligraphy Workshop: Gothic Hands

It can be difficult for busy people to commit to weekly evening classes, especially if you live outside Dublin.  With that in mind, we have now organised a workshop that will take place on three Saturdays over the next few months.

These workshops will run from 10 am to 4 pm at our usual Dundrum venue. 

The dates are:

  • Saturday, February 24th.
  • Saturday, March 23rd.
  • Saturday, April 27th.

Workshop Details:

Teacher: Kevin Honan.  

Duration of the workshop: 10 am to 4 pm.

Subject: The Gothic Script plus skills and techniques to help with enhancement and presentation

The total cost for the three workshops is:  €100 for Peannairi members and €135 for non-members. Non-members paying for the course become members until the end of our subscription year on 31.3.24.

Booking:  Places are limited to a maximum of 14, so early booking is recommended. To reserve your place please send an email to:   Brendankingg@gmail.com 

Use the pay button below to register:

Location: 

Holy Cross Church Parish Centre, Main Street, Dundrum, D14 K820, close to Dundrum Shopping Centre. There is parking beside the Church Parish Centre and also in the nearby Shopping Centre. There are good transport links as Dundrum is on the Green Luas line and is served by several bus routes.

Brief Workshop Outline:

  1. A brief introduction to the Gothic script and its varieties
  2. How to use the tools: the Pilot parallel pen to begin with and the Brause nib to follow.
  3. The structure of the letters and the letter groups. (Exemplars, files, and short videos will be available to guide you through and to help you with the basic skills.
  4. The capitals
  5. On each Saturday, time will be given in the afternoons to other skills to enhance your work: Embossing, Cut-out letters, Paper decoration (simple marbling and dyeing)

Tools and materials:  3.8mm Pilot Parallel Pen,

Straight pen holder and 2.5mm Brause nib. (a few nibs available),

Black ink (Quink or Pelikan) and small brush – Size 2 or 3.

A3 marker pad,

HB pencil, ruler

A craft knife (or scalpel) and cutting board.

Other tools and materials will be suggested as we go on—gouache, embossing tools.

If you are a beginner, it would be good to have the Pilot Parallel Pen (available from Amazon and scribblers.co.uk. but we will be able to lend you one during the class if necessary).  

Celtic Script Workshop

We have an exceptional opportunity to study a Celtic hand with Denis Brown next month. The workshop will take place over two Saturdays, the 11th and 18th of November.

The venue is the Parish Hall, Dundrum, and the workshop will run from 10 am to approximately 4 pm each day.

Numbers are limited to a maximum of 15.

Details:
Content: Celtic script
Dates: 11th and 18th November,  10 am to 4 pm each day
Venue: Parish Hall, Dundrum
Fee: €100 for Peannairi members for the entire course, €135 for non-members

Denis BrownA word from Denis:

C E L T I C   H Y B R I D   S C R I P T 
Max. 15 students

Ancient Celtic half-uncial script is beautiful, but is rarely appropriate for contemporary use. In cases where a Celtic feel is appropriate, I often use a hybrid form, blending insular characteristics with a more modern roman or italic.

We will look at principles of modernizing ancient forms and practice one of my hybrid Celtic/italic scripts. The hand is appropriate for modern use where a Celtic feel is appropriate. 

Tools and Materials: Broad edged calligraphy dip-pens (Brause size 3mm or 4mm particularly suggested in addition to students own preferred brand), ink, gouache paints, palette, mixing brushes, water jar, pencils, ruler, scalpel or scissors, sable watercolour brushes, sizes 000, 0 and 2, layout paper, a sheet or two of better quality paper of your own preferred brand.

Denis has an international reputation as a leading figure in Western calligraphy. He is a master of the broad pen in both traditional and uniquely individual experimental styles.  His media includes calfskin vellum, paper, glass and film. Denis has taught at the invitation of calligraphy guilds internationally since he was 20 years old and is known for his clarity of explanation in teaching.

Have a look at Denis’s website, quillskill.com. It’s superb.

Mini festival of calligraphy

Peannairí is hosting a calligraphy mini festival this summer as part of the DCCI August Craft Month

Book your place now! Email kevinhonan@gmail.com

This will give us an opportunity to meet together and to reacquaint ourselves with the association after such a long gap. As you know we promised to deliver two workshops to all our members during the summer and we are going to discharge this obligation at the mini festival. You will get four!

The festival is also open to non-members and is sponsored by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland, to whom we are very grateful for their generous support.

Event: Mini festival of calligraphy.
Saturday, 27th August, 9.30 to 6 PM
Venue: to be announced on our website soon, most likely in The Arts and Business Campus, Drumcondra. Details will be on the website as soon as our arrangements are complete.

Schedule

  1. Short Meeting  to introduce the menu for the day and to inform non-members about the association.
  2. Main Morning Workshop: An introduction to the Uncial Script using the Pilot parallel pen which we will supply. No other equipment needed. Presenters: Zuzana Urbanikova, Kevin Honan
  3. The Computer as a tool for working out layouts for calligraphy. Presenter: Ceire Beahan

    Break for Lunch (Café nearby)

  4. Presentation/slide show:  Female Scribes, Women Calligraphers. Presenter: Kevin Honan
  5. Floral Panel Illumination. Presenter: Noeleen Frain
  6. Closing meeting: introduction of an extensive Script Analysis project to extend throughout the coming year and further,  to be published in  in An Litir. Distribution of calligraphy books and magazines ( principally the CLAS journal, The Edge) to members. Sale of print copies of three issues of An Litir.

Workshop: Creative Book Binding

To register for the workshop email bookartinfo@gmail.com

 

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