Art and Crafts

Monday:

Everyone will have a try with a broad edged pen creating a traditional script and a pointed nib creating a modern script. Choices will be made for the remainder of the week as follows. 

Tuesday:

Traditional: Historical foundations

Learning a basic script - Foundational Hand

Getting into rhythm and flow

Modern: Modern Calligraphy Pointed pen letterforms

Colour: using watercolours and gold ink

Small project

Wednesday:

Traditional: Colour experiments with watercolours/gouache

Project with techniques learned so far

Calligraphic Mandalas

Modern: Bouncing letters and other Variations to enliven a script and

develop your personal style

Thursday:

Traditional: Capitals

How to develop a larger project - layout

Modern: Writing in a shape

Using masking fluid

Projects: cards, quotations

Friday:

Traditional: Finish longer quotes 

Modern: Longer quotations with interleaved text

Sunita Auger

CLAS Intermediate Diploma in Calligraphy

About Sunita

Having spent her working life teaching A level Mathematics, Sunita now enjoys teaching Calligraphy. She is recognised as a Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society accredited tutor.

Sunita loves getting students addicted to calligraphy and enjoys seeing students find satisfaction in creativity. Sunita promotes the creative, mindful and meditative aspect of calligraphy for well-being. Her day workshops in Hampshire and calligraphy retreats with the Creative Arts Retreat Movement have proved to be very popular. Sunita is the teacher for the Winchester Cathedral Scribes Open Workshops and post Covid will be regularly demonstrating in the Cathedral.

www.gloryletteringstudio.co.uk

Instagram @sunita_calligraphy