Brush, Bounce and Beyond

Whether you're a newbie, familiar with the basics of modern brush calligraphy or looking to enhance your existing skills, we've got you covered. This Brush Pen workshop is where you will expand and fine-tune your brush lettering skills.

In BRUSH, Bounce, and Beyond, you'll learn the rules and techniques for adding bounce to your letters . . . then how to break those rules successfully. Discover how to infuse your compositions with vibrant energy and create captivating designs that truly stand out.

Brush pens are hugely versatile and brush lettering is an incredible way to develop your creativity and lettering to make stunning pieces of art. Learn to how to design compositions, balance your work and gain an understanding of the design process. Create a beautifully composed piece by the end of this workshop

This workshop offers you the opportunity to try some of different brush brands, enabling you to get a feel for the various results they deliver.

Brush, Bounce & Beyond

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

· How to work with different brush holds for greater command of your tool.

· How to control brush pressure to form basic strokes

· Learn how to write every letter stroke by stroke.

· How to connect letters to write words

· Refining your letter and word spacing

· How to bounce your letters, words to give your work energy & vibrancy

· Learn to draw simple flourishes and to add them to a composition

· Learn how to create letter extensions and to add drawn swashes

· Create line templates.

· Learn how to draw and write along a curve.

· How to master centring, composition and small layouts

· Develop your own personal style successfully

· Create a unique hand lettered art piece

A One Day Workshop - Cost $180.00 with basic materials included

Sunday May 19, 2024 - 10.30am to 4.30pm

What is Modern Calligraphy?

Pointed pen hands, cursive scripts and brush lettering are considered as modern calligraphy and have forged a new place in the art of beautiful writing today. These styles, given freedom, energy and flow are what people regard as Modern Calligraphy today.

This is where the approach to style is more relaxed and quirky, giving the artist lots of freedom to play. It is my belief that first comes the discipline then the freedoms. Having knowledge of techniques and some good lettering skills will give the student a structure (good foundations) upon which to build and create their own expressive variations and letter distortions.

ABOUT LAUCHEAN - Your TEACHER

As a teacher Lauchean wants to excite and empower you to unleash your creative potential. She believes anyone can cultivate their creativity and achieve amazing results!

Nurturing students through the process of learning and skills development, bringing together logical and philosophical approaches to design, layout and drawing - all taught with a purpose to calligraphy.

Lauchean’s unique teaching approach encourages students to first gain an understanding of the parts, the basics. Blending the moving hand, a focused mind & the hearts desire for creativity, paving the way to artistic growth in a shared environment with likeminded others.

Looking into the history of writing, it’s place as a contemporary art and the development of modern calligraphy. Lauchean suggests her students collect a “future file”. That’s simply a gallery of calligraphic images that'll inspire, motivate and excite a budding calligrapher. That could be anything from historical decorative lettering to modern experimental expressive calligraphy, hand writing, signage and abstract designs.

LAUCHEAN’S CALLIGRAPHY JOURNEY

Her discovery of beautiful writing led her from a print room to study Ticket and Show Card writing, Screen printing, Bookbinding and into Classic Calligraphy. Then at 27, it was back to college where she studied Graphic Arts and hand lettering. Achieving top awards at graduation she went on to work as a Graphic Artist specialising in calligraphy and lettering in a boutique Melbourne Publishing house.

In 1991 Lauchean established her studio, “The Graphic Quill”. As a pioneer in the industry she built her business based on calligraphy, lettering and print powered by a passionate love for letters. She has continued her own studies with Master Calligraphers both internationally and here in Australia throughout her decades as a working artist. Lauchean delights in “forever learning”.

Relishing every opportunity to share her knowledge, she’s been teaching Calligraphy and the book arts in Colleges, Universities and Arts Centres across Melbourne and Victoria for over 35 years. Prior to the pandemic she tutored the 2 Year Certificate of Calligraphy Course at RMIT in Melbourne. Since our “Covid” break she has returned to teaching her art and design classes in her new McKinnon studio workshop.

Calligraphy - It’s a journey of a thousand steps, taken one step at a time and tackled with patience, practice, purpose & focus.