Learn how to make your lettering expressive and lively using the Pentel Brush Pen. Kathy will demonstrate a basic pointed brush alphabet and techniques to tailor your words to your projects. This unique pen has a nylon brush tip that holds its point and has a water-based dye ink-replaceable cartridge. This is her favourite lettering style so she will have lots of examples of her personal work as well as commissioned work. Make a greeting card to take home along with your instruction kit.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

Three capital letter styles inspired by the Art Nouveau period and European hand lettering Kathy has admired will be presented in this workshop. These three styles will be written with a fine tip pen. A variety of ways of how to use these styles will be presented using your favourite quotations. Make a greeting card to take home.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

Have you always wanted to learn calligraphy? Choose one only of the three styles offered for the workshop: Uncial, Italic, or Bookhand. Learn the basics from how to draw the correct guidelines, form the stroke sequence and be open to spending time on practice just like taking up a musical instrument. We will work with a calligraphy felt marker then touch on how to use the dip pen and ink. Make a greeting card to take home along with your instruction kit.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

Learn how to carve a design with special tools and an “easy-cut” plate to make small hand-pulled prints on a variety of papers and a card. We will be using Speedball non-toxic water-based inks. Your plates can be used again and again.

$120 includes all supplies. Maximum 5 students. Book the studio with Kathy for this three-hour workshop.

Learn three easy hand lettering styles that can be used for greeting cards, gift tags, labels, journals, signs, and more! In this workshop, we will use both the fine-tipped pen and the calligraphy felt marker. You can also incorporate your own handwriting in your designs. Kathy will have lots of examples of how she has used these styles and you will take your instruction kit home.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

In this workshop, you will learn three more (yes there are many styles to learn!) to use for cards, invitations, product labels, text in artwork, and more! We will be using a fine point pen and a calligraphy felt pen to create these styles. Samples will be available and an instruction kit to take home.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

Neuland is an upper-case font designed by German type artist Rudolph Koch in the early 1900s. It was meant to be black and bold and squat and chunky however in this workshop we will explore many variations to liven up its dense appearance. Neuland can be combined with other calligraphy and handwritten styles. Make a greeting card and bookmark to take home with your instruction kit.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

Learn how to make two styles of hand-stitched journals. They can be used as daily journals, mini photo albums, sketchbooks, and more. These two styles can be made in a variety of sizes to suit your needs. They can be embellished with collage, buttons or beads. One journal is folded and bound with the butterfly stitching method in the centre. The other is a Japanese ledger style bound on one side. We will paint the covers and prepare the text block (inside pages) then practice the stitching on a mock journal before assembling the final journals.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three hour workshop.

Talk with Kathy about how you can combine a few techniques from her workshops to tailor one for you and your friends! Mix and match ideas for a longer time frame, bring some wine and have some fun!

Cost to be determined once the workshop has been designed.

So, you’ve taken an introductory calligraphy workshop … now what? This time we will experiment with lettering on fabric and wood and designing hand made greeting cards with decorative papers.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this three-hour workshop.

In this slow-paced two session workshop, we’ll learn a contemporary pointed brush alphabet that’ll make your calligraphy more expressive. Expand your artistic repertoire with this versatile and fun lettering style, which we’ll explore using inspirational quotes and the Pentel Color Brush pen, watercolours, and gouache with a pointed paint brush.

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this six hour workshop.

In this workshop you will be introduced to the capitals (upper case) of a pointed pen lettering style based on Copperplate which originated in the 16th century but has recently become popular as a modern script (modern calligraphy). The thick and thin down strokes are achieved with a pressure and release method with the pen. We will first practice with soft pencils to build up the thick strokes then move on to using a pointed nib and ink. Your goal exercise will be to design a monogram (three or four initials of a name) that can be used on personalized cards or be transferred to fabric for an embroidery design.   

$120 includes all supplies. Book Kathy’s home studio for this workshop.