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Class is 10am-4:30pm with 45 minutes for lunch and a 15 minute afternoon break.

Learn to layer lettering and handwriting with beautiful watercolor techniques to make lovely art works for wall hangings, and for sentiments in a little book.

Skill Level

This class is open to all levels of experience, absolute beginners to mixed media artists, to those who like monoprints, to bookbinders, to painters, to calligraphers. It is not necessary to know a calligraphic hand. Students may use their own writing or stamps should they choose to do so. All levels of calligraphers and non-calligraphers can enjoy this workshop. A love of text and words will carry you through the experience. 

About the Workshop

This class is about building a painting layer by layer. Students will work on paper, with water media and acrylic inks. Transparent washes will be layered with various styles of broad edged or brush lettering, mark making and handwriting to form a luscious abstract work. Participants will learn asemic writing techniques. In the end we will use some fragments of our works to make a small “pocket book” with watercolor cards that contain some of our favorite words. We’ll work with just a few colors of watercolors and do some color mixing exercises to learn what colors we can make with our limited palette. We’ll write with waterproof pens and do our calligraphy with waterproof acrylic inks in order to be able to layer with our watercolors.