New Bookmaking and Calligraphy Classes

Friends! I am teaching four new Bookmaking and Calligraphy classes and workshops at Binders in Atlanta. Two of them are not yet ready for online sign up but you can call Binders (1.888.472.6866) to reserve your spot. Here are the details:

•Binders Bookmaking Workshop: Oct.17,18,&19,2008 Sign up now!
We are making a coptic bound book and a telescoping box for it to fit into. The objective here is to give you a fundamental understanding of how books are made - a backbone of knowledge so you can create your own books and journals. There will be an emphasis on neatness and craft and most of all FUN. Making books is a very rewarding experience. They make wonderful gifts, sketchbooks for yourself and journals, photo albums, etc. The only skills required are a love of paper, attention to detail, patience and again - a need to have FUN!


Bookmaking Supply list:
1. Lineco® awl or pin tool.
2. Lineco® bookbinding needles (1 pkg.)
3. Lineco® Binding thread
4. Lineco® bone folder (small)
5. Lineco® beeswax
6. Davy Board
7. Lineco® Neutral PH Adhesive (8 ounce bottle) or Sobo
8. Lineco® methyl cellulose (little container of white powder)
9. Rice paper: deocrative (used as cover paper)
10. Mechanical pencil (makes the most precise marks)
11. Scissors, exacto knife and blades
12. Clothespins and/or binder clips
13. Triangle (any size you're comfortable with)
14. Self-healing cutting mat (any size you like)
15. Craft brushes (small & large: .5 to 1 inches wide)
16. Cork-backed metal ruler (any size you're comfortable with)
17. 8.5 x 11 sheet of foam core (1/8 inch thickness)
Grocery Store:
19. Roll of wax paper
20. Ziploc containers with lids: 4 cup and 2 cup (in which to put your mixture of adhesive and methyl cellulose)
Hardware Store:
21. Sharpening stone (to be able to sharpen and reuse your dull exacto blades and sharpen your awl)
Office Supply Store:
22. Ream of 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17 blank cotton paper: for pages of our books
Bring from home:
23. A magazine you won't mind ripping up to use as "waste paper" when gluing.
24. Brick covered with paper (to weigh down your books as they dry flat)
Suggested books:
25. Non-Adhesive Binding \ Books Without Paste Or Glue by Keith A. Smith
26. Any crafty bookbinding book is a great resource to refer to when you’ve forgotten how to do a step!


•Binders Italic Calligraphy Class: (On line sign up available shortly)
Italic Calligraphy
Six sessions: Wednesday nights from 6-8:30PM
October 15 - November 19
$140.00

The Italic calligraphic face is one of the most widely used and versatile alphabets around. It is highly legible and can be transformed (dressed up or down) with ease. A wonderful face to learn for the beginning calligrapher yet versatile enough to experiment with for the advanced. We will spend 6 weeks learning the Italic face. Students will be given handouts and guide sheets. We will also address spacing and layout for addressing envelopes.

Calligraphy is less about pretty handwriting, but more about DRAWING each and every letter. It's about establishing a pacing and rhythmic motion as you write - giving you a consistency of shapes and letters, and spaces in between words and lines. It is highly relaxing and meditative. Like yoga for the hands.

Supply List
Binders
1. Pad of market layout paper: 9'' x 12'' (Canson® Pro Layout. 50 sheets per pad.)
2. inkwell
3. Speedball® C Pen Set (penholder and six nibs.)
4. KY Series Sumi Ink from Yasutomo®. (6 oz. black rectangular bottle.)
Grocery Store:
5. Container of Wet Wipes to clean your nibs and hands (not baby wipes - they are too greasy).
Suggested web sites:
6. www.johnnealbooks.com
7. www.paperinkarts.com
8. www.friendsofthealphabet.org (Atlanta Calligraphy Guild)

•Binders Bookmaking Class: (On line sign up available shortly)
Bookmaking
Six sessions: Wednesday afternoons from 1-5PM
October 15 - November 19
$140.00
We will be making books and boxes in this class with a variety of materials and techniques. The objective here is to give you a fundamental understanding of how books are made - a backbone of knowledge so you can create your own books and journals. There will be an emphasis on neatness and craft and most of all FUN. Making books is a very rewarding experience.
They make wonderful gifts, sketchbooks for yourself and journals, photo albums, etc. The only skills required are a love of paper, attention to detail, patience and again - a need to have FUN!


Bookmaking Supply list:
1. Lineco® awl or pin tool.
2. Lineco® bookbinding needles (1 pkg.)
3. Lineco® Binding thread
4. Lineco® bone folder (small)
5. Lineco® beeswax
6. Davy Board
7. Lineco® Neutral PH Adhesive (8 ounce bottle) or Sobo
8. Lineco® methyl cellulose (little container of white powder)
9. Rice paper: deocrative (used as cover paper)
10. Mechanical pencil (makes the most precise marks)
11. Scissors, exacto knife and blades
12. Clothespins and/or binder clips
13. Triangle (any size you're comfortable with)
14. Self-healing cutting mat (any size you like)
15. Craft brushes (small & large: .5 to 1 inches wide)
16. Cork-backed metal ruler (any size you're comfortable with)
17. 8.5 x 11 sheet of foam core (1/8 inch thickness)
Grocery Store:
19. Roll of wax paper
20. Ziploc containers with lids: 4 cup and 2 cup (in which to put your mixture of adhesive and methyl cellulose)
Hardware Store:
21. Sharpening stone (to be able to sharpen and reuse your dull exacto blades and sharpen your awl)
Office Supply Store:
22. Ream of 8.5 x 11 or 11 x 17 blank cotton paper: for pages of our books
Bring from home:
23. A magazine you won't mind ripping up to use as "waste paper" when gluing.
24. Brick covered with paper (to weigh down your books as they dry flat)
Suggested books:
25. Non-Adhesive Binding \ Books Without Paste Or Glue by Keith A. Smith
26. Any crafty bookbinding book is a great resource to refer to when you’ve forgotten how to do a step!

•Binders Copperplate & Blackletter Calligraphy Classs: Jan.14-Feb.18,2009 Sign up now!
Calligraphy Class
Instructor: Anne Elser
Wednesdays, 6 sessions, Jan 14 - Feb 18.
6-8:30pm
Fee: $140

Are you fascinated with how beautiful calligraphy looks and want to try it yourself? This is an introductory look at two major calligraphic faces, Copperplate and Blackletter. They're both very different from each other, which should give the student a nice balance of styles within which to experiment. Calligraphy is less about pretty handwriting, but more about DRAWING each and every letter. It's about establishing a pacing and rhythmic motion as you write - giving you a consistency of shapes and letters, and spaces in between words and lines. It is highly relaxing and meditative. Like yoga for the hands. Towards the end of the class, we'll be experimenting with a more colorful and modern approach to calligraphy, using the folded pen nib and colored inks. Students will be given handouts and guide sheets for both Copperplate and Blackletter. We will also address spacing and layout for addressing envelopes. For the modern calligraphic work, we will be working more intuitively.

Supply List
Binders
1. Pad of market layout paper: 9'' x 12'' (Canson® Pro Layout. 50 sheets per pad.)
2. Mechanical pencil.
3. Eraser.
4. Cork-backed metal ruler (any size you're comfortable with)
5. Dinky Dips® & holder. (or any other inkwell)
6. Oblique Pen Point Holder (for Copperplate.)
7. Fine Pen Point Nibs (for Copperplate.)
9. Speedball® C Pen Set (penholder and six nibs.)
10. KY Series Sumi Ink from Yasutomo®. (6 oz. black rectangular bottle.)
For Modern Calligraphy
11. Palette paint tray 6 or 9 well.
12. Bombay India Ink® 1 oz bottles. Any color(s).
13. New Horizon Folded Nib®.
Grocery Store:
14. Container of Wet Wipes (to clean your nibs and hands).
Suggested web sites:
15. www.johnnealbooks.com
16. www.paperinkarts.com
77. www.friendsofthealphabet.org (Atlanta Calligraphy Guild)