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WEEKEND WORKSHOP: MOVED TO ABSTRACTION - A 2-Day Workshop with Mike Gold
WHEN: October 5 & 6, 2019
WHERE: Newspring Art Studio, 8945 Long Point #100, Houston, Texas 77055
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop will feature exercises to bring out the artist within you. We will look at some of the principles and ideas that guided Picasso, the Abstract Expressionists and others in creating contemporary calligraphic art. Collage was key to both Picasso and Braque in developing their work and modernist visual vocabulary and we will use it here, too. Various other media and tools will also be explored. This workshop is designed for calligraphers looking to move beyond letter forms and traditional compositions and who are willing to bend and break rules you learned as a calligrapher. In this class, letters are seen as line, shape and form and compositions are works that reflect a personal vision that may or may not be readable. You will be working in a no-stress environment where the emphasis is on experimentation and play. Download Workshop Brochure.
SWCC MEMBERS' COST: $125 plus $10 Supply Fee Due to Instructor
SWCC MEMBERS REGISTRATION and ONLINE PAYMENT:
$125 SWCC Members & $165 Non-Members – Registration starts September 11, 2019 at 9:00 AM CST by online registration on the HCG website under the “More” tab.Register and Pay here. You are not registered until you have paid and received an email confirmation from the Guild.
href="https://www.houstoncalligraphyguild.org/store/p6/Non_Member_Major_Weekend_Workshop.html" style="color:dodgerblue" >Pay here. You are not registered until you have paid and received an email confirmation from the Guild.
SUPPLIES LIST: Two (2) 12x12” sheets Arches Text Wove,Two 11x14” sheets of Arches Text Wove, Two 11x14” sheets Strathmore or Canson Pastel Paper, soft colors (not white or ivory), Two 11x14” sheets cold press watercolor paper (I like Arches), 80# Strathmore 400 Drawing Pad, 11x14”, Black calligraphy ink, such as Higgins Eternal (or comparable); Sumi ink (I like Yasutomo or Moon Palace), White calligraphy ink (I like Dr. Martin’s Bleedproof White and Permanent White gouache) Others that work: Moon Palace White Sumi, Winsor & Newton White Calligraphy Ink and a few color inks: I recommend Dr. Martin’s Bombay waterproof India inks and/or Dr. Martin’s Tech Drawing inks (various colors, non-acrylic). Note: I will have some to share, A few acrylic paints (I recommend 3 different colors and white),Color pencils (Prismacolor are best) and/or dry pastels (a few colors) - optional (I will have some to share),,Stiff and flexible pointed pens (I like Nikko G) and other favorite pens, Ruling pen, cola pen, other unusual writing tools (optional, but recommended),Speedball C2 through C5 nib pens; favorite small Mitchell or Brause nibs, or comparable, Automatic pens (1/2” to 1”) or comparable, Favorite pointed brushes (for applying paint and/or ink) and flat or foam brushes (for wash and broad strokes),Any collage materials you have (including thin sheets of white paper, semi-transparent or not),Any archival glues (if you have) and glue brushes (if you have) Note: I will have some to share.,Scissors and/ or x-acto (small cutting mat if you have one),Water container,Paper towels,Apron,Text/them you want to work with (or not). INSTRUCTOR: Mike Gold worked as a lettering designer in the social expressions business for 28 years. He has an M.A. in Visual Communications and has studied with many outstanding teachers over the years. Mike has taught around the country and at several international calligraphy conferences. His personal work has been featured in Letter Arts Review many times over the past 20-plus years and is in many private collections. This summer, he was invited to be one of five international teachers at the Summer School in Winter conference in Australia. Mike’s philosophy and approach to making non-traditional calligraphic art is explained in this 32-page fully illustrated book, Lines to Live By, published by John Neal, Bookseller. Mike's joy is exploring the corridors of calligraphy that have been less traveled, the path where words and letters are design elements with which to play with line, shape and form, where creating a visual statement is more important than writing a readable text. As Lee Krasner has written, "If the alphabet is A to Z, I want to move with it all the way, not only from A to C.
Questions: Contact JB Banzon at calligraphybyjb@gmail.com
WHEN: October 5 & 6, 2019
WHERE: Newspring Art Studio, 8945 Long Point #100, Houston, Texas 77055
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: This workshop will feature exercises to bring out the artist within you. We will look at some of the principles and ideas that guided Picasso, the Abstract Expressionists and others in creating contemporary calligraphic art. Collage was key to both Picasso and Braque in developing their work and modernist visual vocabulary and we will use it here, too. Various other media and tools will also be explored. This workshop is designed for calligraphers looking to move beyond letter forms and traditional compositions and who are willing to bend and break rules you learned as a calligrapher. In this class, letters are seen as line, shape and form and compositions are works that reflect a personal vision that may or may not be readable. You will be working in a no-stress environment where the emphasis is on experimentation and play. Download Workshop Brochure.
SWCC MEMBERS' COST: $125 plus $10 Supply Fee Due to Instructor
SWCC MEMBERS REGISTRATION and ONLINE PAYMENT:
$125 SWCC Members & $165 Non-Members – Registration starts September 11, 2019 at 9:00 AM CST by online registration on the HCG website under the “More” tab.Register and Pay here. You are not registered until you have paid and received an email confirmation from the Guild.
href="https://www.houstoncalligraphyguild.org/store/p6/Non_Member_Major_Weekend_Workshop.html" style="color:dodgerblue" >Pay here. You are not registered until you have paid and received an email confirmation from the Guild.
SUPPLIES LIST: Two (2) 12x12” sheets Arches Text Wove,Two 11x14” sheets of Arches Text Wove, Two 11x14” sheets Strathmore or Canson Pastel Paper, soft colors (not white or ivory), Two 11x14” sheets cold press watercolor paper (I like Arches), 80# Strathmore 400 Drawing Pad, 11x14”, Black calligraphy ink, such as Higgins Eternal (or comparable); Sumi ink (I like Yasutomo or Moon Palace), White calligraphy ink (I like Dr. Martin’s Bleedproof White and Permanent White gouache) Others that work: Moon Palace White Sumi, Winsor & Newton White Calligraphy Ink and a few color inks: I recommend Dr. Martin’s Bombay waterproof India inks and/or Dr. Martin’s Tech Drawing inks (various colors, non-acrylic). Note: I will have some to share, A few acrylic paints (I recommend 3 different colors and white),Color pencils (Prismacolor are best) and/or dry pastels (a few colors) - optional (I will have some to share),,Stiff and flexible pointed pens (I like Nikko G) and other favorite pens, Ruling pen, cola pen, other unusual writing tools (optional, but recommended),Speedball C2 through C5 nib pens; favorite small Mitchell or Brause nibs, or comparable, Automatic pens (1/2” to 1”) or comparable, Favorite pointed brushes (for applying paint and/or ink) and flat or foam brushes (for wash and broad strokes),Any collage materials you have (including thin sheets of white paper, semi-transparent or not),Any archival glues (if you have) and glue brushes (if you have) Note: I will have some to share.,Scissors and/ or x-acto (small cutting mat if you have one),Water container,Paper towels,Apron,Text/them you want to work with (or not). INSTRUCTOR: Mike Gold worked as a lettering designer in the social expressions business for 28 years. He has an M.A. in Visual Communications and has studied with many outstanding teachers over the years. Mike has taught around the country and at several international calligraphy conferences. His personal work has been featured in Letter Arts Review many times over the past 20-plus years and is in many private collections. This summer, he was invited to be one of five international teachers at the Summer School in Winter conference in Australia. Mike’s philosophy and approach to making non-traditional calligraphic art is explained in this 32-page fully illustrated book, Lines to Live By, published by John Neal, Bookseller. Mike's joy is exploring the corridors of calligraphy that have been less traveled, the path where words and letters are design elements with which to play with line, shape and form, where creating a visual statement is more important than writing a readable text. As Lee Krasner has written, "If the alphabet is A to Z, I want to move with it all the way, not only from A to C.
Questions: Contact JB Banzon at calligraphybyjb@gmail.com