Kathleen did a great job showing all kinds of techniques that come only through years of calligraphy experience.
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For instance, I never knew that you need to run a new nib over a flame to burn off the shellac from the factory or the ink won’t run smoothly. (-Leslie)
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- Participants busily practicing their strokes with guidance from Kathleen. Here she helps the left handed student whose nibs are slanted differently.
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- Kathleen helps O.C. with her stroke.
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- Kathleen demonstrates a neat color calligraphy technique where you draw your stroke with a wide, wet foam brush, then drop different colors on either end of the stroke to create a free-flowing color-filled letter.
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- She demonstrated each stroke using a piece of charcoal on its side which gave a good visual of the stroke and arm movement. She showed components of letters which you could put together to make several different letters.
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- Participants add color to their letters using watercolor.
