Angela Rockett is once again curating a juried show at the ER Gallery. this time the theme being "Gift of Water".
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Work complete on the Parish Hall window wall
5 months ago
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Martin Jackson Workshop
A couple of weekends ago, I had the joy of full calligraphy weekend with one of the masters, Martin Jackson. It was divine, but exhausting, especially causing eye fatigue after concentrating so hard for hours at a time.
Uncials
The first day, we concentrated on uncials. The quality of the instruction I've had from my regular instructor, Kathy Barker, showed; when Martin came around to evaluate my work, he declared there was nothing at all wrong. All he could find were some nits and suggest a few alternatives. I, of course, felt very good about my strong lettering.
Good enough, that I only sketched out a final piece of the next day rather than doing more drafts.
Gold
Martin also lead us through the process of gold leafing with the traditional gum ammoniac, a sap gather from Iran. (Previously, I had only used a modern plasticizer as a base.)
We started with the dried sap nuggets, reconstituting them with distilled water and allowed to set overnight. At the start of day 2, Martin showed how he poured it through a couple of pantyhose layers to sift contaminates out.
One time, he found a small black eyelash in his, and it at once humanized the entire gather of the sap nuggets. But this time we found only small pieces of grit and such not.
After we finalized our calligraphy, we applied the gum ammoniac with a feather quill, and allowed it to dry until glossy. To activate it, we breathed through straws and quickly placed the transfer gold down. Burnished. Breathed. More gold. And burnished again.
It turned out so good that it's worth framing. I've since gotten some really top-notch matboard, and my instructor is helping me archivally mat the piece with some very wide margins around it. I'll load the pic later.
Sidenotes
By now I know most of the calligraphers in the area, at least the ones who show up in public. So it was a great social event during lunchtime, as everyone shared calligraphy stories.
Blog readers may recall that I went to Molly Hashimoto's demo last month. Well, this time she was one of the students, and I got to tell her how much I appreciated seeing her journals.
Uncials
The first day, we concentrated on uncials. The quality of the instruction I've had from my regular instructor, Kathy Barker, showed; when Martin came around to evaluate my work, he declared there was nothing at all wrong. All he could find were some nits and suggest a few alternatives. I, of course, felt very good about my strong lettering.
Good enough, that I only sketched out a final piece of the next day rather than doing more drafts.
Gold
Martin also lead us through the process of gold leafing with the traditional gum ammoniac, a sap gather from Iran. (Previously, I had only used a modern plasticizer as a base.)
We started with the dried sap nuggets, reconstituting them with distilled water and allowed to set overnight. At the start of day 2, Martin showed how he poured it through a couple of pantyhose layers to sift contaminates out.
One time, he found a small black eyelash in his, and it at once humanized the entire gather of the sap nuggets. But this time we found only small pieces of grit and such not.
After we finalized our calligraphy, we applied the gum ammoniac with a feather quill, and allowed it to dry until glossy. To activate it, we breathed through straws and quickly placed the transfer gold down. Burnished. Breathed. More gold. And burnished again.
It turned out so good that it's worth framing. I've since gotten some really top-notch matboard, and my instructor is helping me archivally mat the piece with some very wide margins around it. I'll load the pic later.
Sidenotes
By now I know most of the calligraphers in the area, at least the ones who show up in public. So it was a great social event during lunchtime, as everyone shared calligraphy stories.
Blog readers may recall that I went to Molly Hashimoto's demo last month. Well, this time she was one of the students, and I got to tell her how much I appreciated seeing her journals.
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