Foundation Meets Bone (Carrie Imai: 2.5 day)

All levels

The Foundation script was aptly named by Edward Johnston as it is based on Carolingian, an early Humanist Roman hand and became the “foundation” for a calligraphy revival in the early 1900’s.

This class will begin with a study of the beautiful, strong, round Foundation script– a mandatory script for any calligrapher’s repertoire.  We will then morph into the Bone script which was the brain child of Jacqueline Svaren as an exercise to loosen up the rigid pen holds and stiff hands of her students.  It is based on the very formal Carolingian, but is manipulated to the MAX to create a wild, amorphous, sexy alphabet.

Be prepared to learn to walk all over again.  Learning “Bone” is like nothing you’ve ever done before.  The beautiful thing that happens once you master these manipulated letters, is that this skill integrates into your other alphabets and gives them that life and bounce that you drool over in books and at exhibits, but were not quite sure how to get into your own.

Supply List: Speedball C-2 pen; at least 1 Automatic pen size #4 or #5 (or comparable Coit or Horizon); full range of sizes – pen of your choice (Brause, Mitchell, Tape); Pelikan 4001 ink or other water based ink; grid pad 8×8 (squares to the inch) – 11×17; tools to rule paper (t-square & Ames Lettering Guide); Prang paint box or watercolor tubes and palette; mixing brushes; water pot; rag; synthetic pointed brush (#1 or #2); scraps of good paper (Arches 90# HP, Frankfurt, Fabriano Ingres, Canson); glue stick; fine line light color marking pen (i.e. Micron); scissors & Xacto; any and all tools you love, tools you hate, tools you had to have but haven’t ever used, tools you don’t know how to use.

Supply Fee: $10.00 (for handout notebook, experimental tool kit, and papers and supplies pre-cut for projects)