Illustration and Watercolours for Journals
with Connie Furgason
Dates: Saturday & Sunday, September 22 & 23,2012
Time: 10am — 4pm
Location: St.
John’s-Ravenscourt School
in Winnipeg,
Weekend Workshop Cost:
Members: $150 Non-members:
$175
2 days - All levels
Journals are becoming such a wonderful means of recording thoughts,
travels, quotes and more. The joy is the
individual expression this offers the creator of the journal. Students will learn basic drawing techniques
to capture favourite images or ideas and then incorporate watercolours and
other mediums to enhance the pages. We
will explore various lettering styles, such as monoline, free versals and edged
pen techniques, to best express the thoughts on these pages and to achieve variety
in the text.
Students will create a journal, paint and decorate pages, add text as
desired — the beginning of a process leading to a finished journal … whenever
that may be!
If weather and location permit, we can combine some outdoor sketching
and idea gathering.
Supplies:
- Blank
journal – MUST be able to accept watercolour, e.g. Strathmore series 400
Sketchbook, Strathmore Visual Journals (must say for ”mixed media” or
“watercolour”)
- Scraps
of any watercolour paper you may have
- 1
Sheet of Arches Textwove, cut into 4 pieces
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Watercolours or gouache
- Round
watercolour brushes with a good point (#2, #4 or #6)
- ½” Flat watercolour brush WN series 995 or equivalent
-
Inexpensive Sumi brush, if you have one
- Pencil,
ruler, fine waterproof pen (e.g. Pigma 01 or Mars Staedtler, NOT Sharpies)
- Metallic
gel pens
- PVA or
glue stick.
- Water
container
- Favourite
words or quotes you may want to use
- Photo
copies of any pics you may want to incorporate (The focus will be on drawing
and painting your own images as much as possible.)
- Any other
favourite paints or tools that you would like to use in your journal
- Practice
pad (will be available for purchase at the workshop)
About the instructor:
Connie’s love for lettering goes back to
grade 5 when she won the Silver Spoon Award for Penmanship. In university her studies in Art and English
led to a career as a lettering artist, and since 1981 she has been teaching
classes and workshops across Canada
and the U.S. Her work has been published in ABC Canada, The Spirit of
Calligraphy, Speedball Handbook 23rd Edition, and The Art and Craft of Hand Lettering and most recently, Fine Renditions. Ongoing work includes lettering and
illustration for the commercial card and print industry as well as private commissions.
Connie was the director of “Pen-Ultima ’99,”
the 19th International Calligraphy Conference in Lethbridge, Alberta
and two regional conferences. She has
also been on faculty at several international conferences.
Connie currently lives in beautiful Vancouver
Island.
TO REGISTER
Please cut off the bottom portion of this
registration, include your cheque, payable to Calligraphers
Guild of Manitoba
Mail to:
Charlotte Konrad
577
Foxgrove Ave.
Winnipeg, MB R2E 0A6
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Fee: Members: $150 Non-members:
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Registration deadline - Friday August 31, 2012
