Designing Flourishes
- All levels
- 16 and older
- $220
- 214 E 21st St, New York, NY
- 12 hours over 2 sessions
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92nd Street Y @ 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY
Discover the art of calligraphy and hand lettering in this comprehensive course. Learn about different styles, tools, and techniques to create stunning designs for gift enclosures, envelopes, and more. Develop your unique style as a calligrapher and unlock your creativity in this immersive class.
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Brooklyn Craft Company @ 165 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Unlock the art of creating intricate and eye-catching lettering designs with a unique tool. Learn the techniques and skills needed to elevate your creativity and craft personalized messages with precision.
Good flourishing is not the result of “happy accidents.” Flourishing is most effectively employed in a systematic way, instead of relying on spontaneity. In this class, we will go over the basic rules and principles of designing the flourished line.
We will examine high quality flourished work, learn how to identify basic elements of well-executed flourishes, dissect what makes good flourishing pleasing to the eye, and combine the elements to create our own designs. As we go through exercises, we will cover methods of combining flourishes in a visually pleasing way, with particular emphasis on white space and hot spot control, scale, intersecting angles, smoothness, and rhythm. Ultimately we will learn how to attach flourishes to letterforms and incorporate them into your compositions.
Level of difficulty: Beginner to intermediate (no calligraphy experience necessary, but students must have some familiarity with letterforms)
Material List:
• Grid paper
• Tracing paper
• Layout bond paper (Borden & Riley #37, Canson Marker Layout, or Bienfang Graphics 360)
• Ruler
• Pencil and sharpener or mechanical pencil with refills
• Eraser
• Tape (artist’s or masking)
• 1-2mm chisel tip marker or pen (e.g., Sakura Pigma calligraphy markers, Zig calligraphy chisel tip markers, chisel tip fountain pen, etc)
• 1mm or smaller chisel-edge dip pen nibs with ink, plus any flexible points you are comfortable with
• (Optional) Any existing flourishing design that you would like to improve
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Gramercy, Manhattan
214 E 21st St
Btwn 2nd & 3rd Avenues
New York, New York 10010 Gramercy, Manhattan
214 E 21st St
Btwn 2nd & 3rd Avenues
New York, New York 10010
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