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Calligraphy Workshop in San Francisco

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I’ve been pretty busy with calligraphy lately; logos, event signage, presents for friends and a tattoo here and there.

I’ve also been occupied by planning the next few live workshops. Next up: San Francisco!

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I’ll be in San Francisco the third week of July while Chris runs a 30-miler with a bunch of his friends. I’m sad it doesn’t coincide with Alt SF, but I’m going to San Fran! My happy place!

I’ll be teaching a 2-part workshop focusing on digital and hand-written calligraphy. You can sign up for one workshop or both. Space is limited, so sign up soon! The 2-part workshop is back-to-back. If you’d like to participate in both sessions, there’s an hour break for dinner and mingling at 6pm. Dinner is not included in the workshop price, but you can bring your own or order from the take-out menus provided.

Part one will cover:

  • calligraphy tools and beginnings
  • learning the pointed pen
  • figuring out flourishes
  • making it your own
  • a basic calligraphy kit for you to keep
  • sign up here

Part two will cover:

  • tools for digitizing your work
  • how to scan your work
  • how to photoshop your lettering
  • how to vectorize your lettering
  • sign up here

Not in San Francisco? There’s always my online class! If you’re in the Phoenix or Denver areas keep on the lookout for a workshop near you this summer. I’m always open to suggestions for cities to visit. Make your suggestions here.

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Here’s a little calligraphy piece I lettered for a friend. She’s such a hard-worker and gets so much amazing things done, she needed a reminder of how awesome she is.

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I sponsored a little giveaway at a barbecue I attended on Monday. I lettered 6 cards and their envelopes.

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I think “Look at you go!” is probably my favorite.

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Instead of just packaging the cards with plain envelopes, I put little “please deliver to” details on them. I also put stamps on each one so they’re easy to send.

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Kindly deliver to on the bottom right is my favorite.

On another note: thanks for being so supportive of my need to scale back. It’s looking like I’m scaling back even more to just two posts per week. I would love to post more, it’s just so hard to get motivated to photograph and write it all out! I’m still pretty emotional, but I’m feeling much less stress these days.

Calligraphy & Digitization Workshop in SLC

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It’s time for another workshop, but I’m adding more to it! The Write Image in Salt Lake City will be hosting my two-part calligraphy workshop. YES. Two days!

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We will be covering a lot of material over the two-day workshop, you don’t want to miss it. The workshop is perfect for designers, illustrators, photographers, hobbyists and DIY brides.

Day one will cover:

  • calligraphy tools and beginnings
  • learning the pointed pen
  • figuring out flourishes
  • making it your own
  • a basic calligraphy kit for you to keep

Day two will cover:

  • tools for digitizing your work
  • how to scan your work
  • how to photoshop your lettering
  • how to vectorize your lettering

The workshop will be at The Write Image at 2205 East 2100 South in Salt Lake City on Friday, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th. Instruction will start promptly at 6:45pm.

Click here for part one

Click here for part two

Not in Salt Lake? There’s always my online class! If you’re in the San Francisco or Denver areas keep on the lookout for a workshop near you this summer. We’ll be taking the show on the road soon!

Calligraphy Kits Available Tomorrow in SLC

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This week has been nuts! I was down for a day and a half with a horrible stomach flu. I’ve been meaning to share this with you since Wednesday, but I’ve been such a slacker!

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I’m participating in tomorrow’s SLC Pop-Up Shop in Downtown Salt Lake! I’ll be there with so many great artists and crafters, I can’t wait!

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I’ll be there with 40 calligraphy kits, and my pens and inks! You can purchase a kit with the accompanying online course subscription or get some hand lettering made for you on the spot! Both are perfect for Mother’s day which is right around the corner.

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I’ll be available to hand write little things like above on the kit as well. Cash and credit card are accepted.

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Here’s a preview of what the kit includes:

  • 1 box
  • pencil
  • pencil sharpener
  • nib holder
  • 2 pen nibs (Gillot 303 and Hunt 22b)
  • acrylic ink
  • cleaning wipes
  • a paper sampling (tracing, gridded and plain)
  • lettering guide and alphabet sheets
  • 1 coupon code for istilllovecalligraphy.com workshop

It’s everything you need to get started with calligraphy.

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Gift it to a mother this Mother’s day or for yourself! I hope to see you at the Pop-Up Shop this weekend!

Miss out on the pop up shop? You can order your kit here!

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