DeAnn worked individually with students. She demonstrated an alternate serif that she prefers instead of the angled look at the ascender. Warm-up: practice the basic strokes twice. Then practice the lowercase letters. DeAnn’s preferred serif: write a line at the ascender; then press and pull down on...
DeAnn distributed handouts for the semester. She had us do dexterity exercises, then demonstrated the Pointed Pen Fraktur strokes and also went over the lowercase letters. Organizing your supplies: Find a container to carry your supplies. Study your handout and put it in a folder or...
Today was the last Copperplate class of the semester so we had a potluck. DeAnn demonstrated writing Copperplate with watercolor. First she demonstrated a project where she framed a flourished capital written with metallic watercolor on black paper. Then she demonstrated writing with regular watercolors...
Today DeAnn demonstrated alternate capitals. The handouts were different versions of more flourished Copperplate capitals. Review: Capitals and stroke #5 are from ascender to base Stroke #6 goes down to the descender Lowercase d, t, p go halfway to ascender or descender Flourishing: better that it’s too big than too...
Today DeAnn had us practice flourishing. The thick strokes of the flourish should be thinner than the primary stem stroke. Remember: Flourishing is BIG. Rehearse flourishing before you write it. Flourishing text: try writing words without ascenders and descenders (see below, in black). Then come back and put on...
Today DeAnn demonstrated Copperplate basic formal capitals. The handouts were different versions of more flourished Copperplate capitals. Review of connectors: (photos to come) Copperplate Capitals: the size is from the base to the ascender. For demonstrating them on the board, DeAnn didn’t write in the waist guideline. See...
Today DeAnn demonstrated connecting Copperplate letters to form words. The handout was her list of words to use for spacing. To warm-up, DeAnn had us write letters using the Large guideline. Satomi’s Copperplate pieces: Satomi made a perpetual calendar (all by hand!). [caption id="attachment_791" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Close-up of Day and...
Today DeAnn had us do calligraphy calisthenics (“calli-sthenics”) and demonstrated writing the Copperplate lowercase alphabet. To warm-up, DeAnn had us write ovals in the whitespace of the Large guideline using the nib of our choice. She had us place the left hand (or non-writing hand) on...
(note: photos to come) Today DeAnn talked about flourishing letters. Homework observations: the “o” loops at the side, not at the top. The “a” doesn’t touch at the stem. End a letter low to make a good transition to the next letter. Really look at the letter...
(note: more photos to come) DeAnn introduced herself and had the students introduce themselves. DeAnn’s Philosophy for learning Copperplate: For success in writing beautiful Copperplate, think of the Copperplate letters as a series of STROKES, which you’ll be learning in today’s class. By disassociating them from the...
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