This class is an introduction to italic calligraphy and with a dip pen. Italic is a good place to start. You can build on it for cursive and print -both for handwriting and further calligraphy exploration.
Date: Saturday, August 16th – 2025
Time: 8:30 – 12:30 (4 hours)
Place: The Deckle Edge @ 13 Brickfield Road, Salt River
Workshop space is limited so booking is essential
Materials Supplied by Leesette:
What you will learn:
Learn how to use a dip pen for calligraphy
About italic and its place in history
How to form all the letters in the lowercase alphabet
Leave being able to write each one
About the facilitatior:
Leesette is a calligraphy coach who lives in Cape Town, has exhibited locally and internationally, and her work appears in several international collections. She is endlessly fascinated by all things script — Asian, Arabic, African, Asemic, Roman —how letters become visual images and our relationship with text. Leesette’s philosophy is to have fun using letters as a form of abstract self-expression where we pursue expression and not necessarily the perfection. Neugebauer’s statement embodies her sentiments: “The scribe is subject to a rhythm that comes from his pulse, from the movement of his blood. A special kind of cardiogram, flowing and ebbing, a translation of invisible mental states into the visible.” She feels we should all be benefiting from the advantages of daily calligraphic creations.
*If you need to cancel your workshop booking, please let us know by 11 a.m the weekday before the workshop. To help us support the facilitator, late cancellations will not be refunded. A credit for future events could be granted at our discretion.
R550.00
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