Reviewing our calligraphic heritage and celebrating our 40...

1FWCG Newsletter JAN-FEB 2020

JAN-FEB, 2020 The year of our Fortieth Anniversary Issue THREE of Four

Reviewing our calligraphic heritage and celebrating our 40 years as a guild

IN THIS ISSUE . . . . . . . . PageMeeting Topics & Details . . . . 2Art Notes by Mary . . . . . . . 3–440th Anniversary Review . . . 5–7Library Corner . . . . . . . . . . . 8New Members . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

A World of Calligraphy . . . . . . 9Upcoming Workshops . . . . . 10Memory Lane . . . . . . . . . . . 11Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Map to meeting site . . . . . . . . 12

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COVER ARTGina Tanner offers her Spencerian hand written on a wallpaper pattern she designed in her interior design days.

Inklings is published by the Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild four times during its meeting year, September through May. Issues will be released during the months of September, November, February and April. The in-between months will be email blast communications to keep you updated on events, workshops, community opportunities, etc. E-blast will likely occur the weekend prior to set meeting dates.

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JANUARY6 . . . . . . . . . . . Deanna Fava7 . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria M. VillarerealFEBRUARY1 . . . . . . . . . . . . Leigh Lynde6 . . . . . . . . . . . Edith Dwight16 . . . . . . . . . . Suzanne Raif17 . . . . . . . . . . . Tom Campos17 . . . . . . . . . . . Lynda Kemple18. . . . . . . . . . . Sherry BarberMARCH6 . . . . . . . . . . . Nannetta Richard7 . . . . . . . . . . . Marilee Haughey15. . . . . . . . . . . Vanessa Delp26 . . . . . . . . . . Beth Hammil

MARCH MEETING

Our February meeting will be on the second Sunday, March 8, 2020 at the Bedford Public Library

2424 Forest Ridge Drive in BedfordBusiness Meeting — 2:00 p.m.Program — about 2:30 p.m.

Manuscripts, Latin & Illuminations

Introduction to the lineage and meaning of medieval manuscripts and lettering styles as they relate to documents we actually still use today .

Cayetano Olivarez will share and demonstrate his discoveries in developing his historical perspective .

February Meeting

Our February meeting will be on the second Sunday, February 9 at the Bedford Public Library

2424 Forest Ridge Drive in BedfordBusiness Meeting — 2:00 p.m.

Program — about 2:30 p.m.

Valentine Social & ExchangeBring a hand-lettered, hand-made Valentine to exchange at this social . See back page for more details and opportunities of the day. Bring a hand-lettered, hand-made Valentine to exchange at the February 9th meeting from 2:00pm - 4:00pm at Bedford Public Library . Enjoy desserts and tea while learning how your colleagues design a handmade and handlettered card . And they will learn from you . This is a shared social and learning time .

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Dr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolors

Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Water Color is an extremely concentrated, brilliant, aniline dye-based color which is formulated mainly for use in works on paper surfaces intended for reproduction. (Note they are not waterproof or lightfast.) They come in 4 different sets of 14, or they can be purchased individually on-line. I was first introduced to these colors in Julie Wildman’s March 2018 workshop “Lively Letters” and started buying individual bottles a few at a time until I had split-primary palette plus a green and a violet. They mix differently on the page from my usual Daniel-Smith watercolors but with interesting results. And even more interestingly, the colors take on an entirely different kind of brilliance when pulled up in a photo editor. For example, pictures 1 and 2 above, have not been edited with respect to light or color. However, in picture 3, I played around with my cell phone’s photo-editor’s light and color options until I achieved the desired effect.

Dr. Ph Martin’s RadiantCONCENTRATED WATERCOLORS

By Mary DeChellis

Dr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolors

Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Water Color is an extremely concentrated, brilliant, aniline dye-based color which is formulated mainly for use in works on paper surfaces intended for reproduction. (Note they are not waterproof or lightfast.) They come in 4 different sets of 14, or they can be purchased individually on-line. I was first introduced to these colors in Julie Wildman’s March 2018 workshop “Lively Letters” and started buying individual bottles a few at a time until I had split-primary palette plus a green and a violet. They mix differently on the page from my usual Daniel-Smith watercolors but with interesting results. And even more interestingly, the colors take on an entirely different kind of brilliance when pulled up in a photo editor. For example, pictures 1 and 2 above, have not been edited with respect to light or color. However, in picture 3, I played around with my cell phone’s photo-editor’s light and color options until I achieved the desired effect.

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For these pictures, I paint wet-on-wet -- that is, I wet the entire surface of the part to be painted, then drop color in, using a small pointed brush, working from one part to the next, hoping the colors will blend together on the page and result in a pleasing effect. I almost always use the small water color palette pictured in 4 above.

After the paint dries, I pull out my little six-well palette filled with my favorite Dr. Ph. Martin’s radiant watercolors. (I love that these colors can dry out and be reconstituted with a few drops of water.) This palette contains Ultra Blue, Turquoise Blue, Scarlet, Cherry Red, Tiger Yellow, and Olive Green. Once again, I wet the entire area to be painted, drop in the colors, and allow them to mix on the page. This second layer not only adds depth to the previous layer, but adds that “radiance” that seems to photograph so beautifully.

Finally, I usually go over my outlines again to cover up the sloppy bits and add a little shading so things will really pop.

Many thanks to Cora Pearl and her class “The Elements of Design” for so much of the inspiration for my little post cards seen here. ~Mary DeChellis


Angie, above, explains the guild gift for attendees: Coliro Sparkle Gouache pan imported from the manufacturer in Germany, in a round magnetic nib box .

Judy DeWine was our historian in the 1990s . She was able to attend the party .

SWCCThe Austin organization will be hosting the annual meeting of guild presidents and workshop chairmen on the weekend of Feb . 7 & 8 in Navasota, TX at Camp Allen .

FWCG will be represented by past and present workshop chairs Angie Vangalis and Judy Johannsen .

Remember: the whole point of the weekend is to create community, share ideas, uplift and help each other . . . and to go home with oodles of ideas and inspiration .

WORKSHOPSAngie has finalized the flights and travel for Loredana Zega and she will be here May 11 . DETAILS see page 9 .

2020 Graceful Envelope info:

DEADLINE: March 23, 2020 . THEME: Double Vision (2020, get it??)

OTHER INFO available on the WEBSITE: https://www .calligraphersguild .org/envelope .html

The Call for Entries flyer is attached to the email delivering this newsletter .

For these pictures, I paint wet-on-wet -- that is, I wet the entire surface of the part to be painted, then drop color in, using a small pointed brush, working from one part to the next, hoping the colors will blend together on the page and result in a pleasing effect. I almost always use the small water color palette pictured in 4 above.

After the paint dries, I pull out my little six-well palette filled with my favorite Dr. Ph. Martin’s radiant watercolors. (I love that these colors can dry out and be reconstituted with a few drops of water.) This palette contains Ultra Blue, Turquoise Blue, Scarlet, Cherry Red, Tiger Yellow, and Olive Green. Once again, I wet the entire area to be painted, drop in the colors, and allow them to mix on the page. This second layer not only adds depth to the previous layer, but adds that “radiance” that seems to photograph so beautifully.

Finally, I usually go over my outlines again to cover up the sloppy bits and add a little shading so things will really pop.

Many thanks to Cora Pearl and her class “The Elements of Design” for so much of the inspiration for my little post cards seen here. ~Mary DeChellis

History Our history was faithfully kept by volunteers during the early years .

Door prizes and giftsDoor prizes were donated by John Neal Bookseller, Blick Art Materials and Paper & Ink Arts . Also FWCG donated a lovely gift for each attendee which Angie Vangalis, right, and her mom Athena Kitsianis prepared for us .

These prizes were won by Linda Langley, Deanna Fava, and Gina Tanner respectively .


Dec. 8, 2019 CELEBRATION

exhibit

Bedford Public Library was decked out for the season .

Once more, a big Thanks to cartoonist Janell Wimberly for her artwork celebrating

FWCG’s fortiety anniversary .

An impromptu exhibit of

member work graced two full tables

and spilled over to the back of

the room .


Artistic expressions

surprise guest

Left, Santa sent a trusted elf to distribute a gift to each attendee . Above, Jeri Wright participates in the service project of addressing envelopes for shut-ins . Right, Nan Kirby and Catherine Burkhard .

Ed. note: Kudos to Caytano “Ollie” Olivarez for a spectacular job as Santa. He was perfect for the job; he had personal tidbits to say for each individual who received a gift – a great job of extemporaneous showmanship! (Like they say, if the suit fits, wear it!)

Three handmade books were published by our guild for each attendee, along with a decorative white turkey feather, shown in lower right corner of this page, courtesy of Monica Kelley .

Supplies were available for members to customize their book covers with chalk or watercolor pencils

Shown at right and below right: a book of calligraphy-related cartoons for members only . The second book was

an assortment of calligraphic exemplars done by members for members (a quick reference of characteristics); lastly

a re-print of the collected calligraphic tips and tricks collected by our own Harvey Anton, printed with his

permission originally in 2008 in limited edition .


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Editor’s Notes

Meeting MINUTES are now being posted at the name tag and sign-in area . Please read before the business meeting.

The NEWSLETTER will be pub-lished in full FOUR times in this year—with other communica-tions coming in between issues . PLEASE be aware and seek out news items and email blasts.

Your hand-lettered valentine card will be the highlight of our February 9 meeting. Be sure to state your choices of papers, inks, techniques as you describe the card during the presentation .

—Sharon Schmidt

Editor’s Corner

Page 11 — a reprint from a past Inklings, the tenth anniversary issue. This was written by Sharon Schmidt about past presidents of the guild.

Reminder: our guild library holdings are listed on www.librarything.

com. On the home page, under “Already a member?” enter FWCG in the “name” field; the password (case-sensitive) is Letters26. This catalog enables members to browse through the list of available books and decide what they may wish to check out. To check out a book, contact Mary by e-mail [email protected] to let her know which book(s) you want to check out. She or someone on the library committee will bring your request to the next meeting. Members may check out up to 3 books at a time; due date is the next meeting.

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YNew MembersNan Kirby Birthday Sep 21530 Northlake Drive donkirby@aol .comDallas, TX 75218-2116 cell - 214-324-0468

Victoria M. Villarreal Birthday Jan 73508 Belmont Street vickivillarreal@yahoo .comDenton, TX 76210-8582 cell 214-334-5626

Lara A. Sinnott Birthday Oct 29242 Moutainview Drive 214-202-6102 - (C)Hurst, TX 76054 larasinnott@gmail .com

Please add these to your directory . And when they come to meetings, be sure

to welcome them to our awesome group!

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It is surrounded with breathtaking mountains and greenish, crystal clear glacial lakes . People here speak many languages and are helpful and friendly hosts .

STARTS on June 27, 2020 in the morning and ends on July 1, 2020, late in the afternoon - after The Student’s Show . Of course, you shouldn’t miss a closing PARTY in the evening (on 1st July) .REGISTRATION is on 26th June ’20, from 15 .00 – 18 .00 at BW Hotel Kranjska Gora .

https://www.kaligrafija.org/2019/05/international-calligraphy-conference .html

Announcing the third time that an international calligrphay conference has been hosted locally . Our own Angie Valgalis is assembling a team of helpers to stage this awesome event .

LEGACIES III International Lettering Arts ConferenceJULY 3 - 10, 2021 - Venue TBA soon!Save the date and watch for more details!

IAMPETH 2020 Conference: July 6 - 11, Atlanta, Georgia

Information will be available in February for this year’s conference, with registration taking place in March . Registration priority is given to our current members . For more information: https://www .iampeth .com/conferences

Several guild members were very helpful to me in anniversary party set-up and preparation of our give-away books. I would like to thank the following for their contributions:

• Party room and table set up: Caytano Olivarez, Suzanne Raif, Sherry Selby; centerpieces and surprise Santa visit arranged by President Gina Tanner

• Book assembly: Judy Johannsen, Monica Kelley, Linda Jones, Linda Langley• Exhibit set-up: Jeri Wright, Tom Campos, Marilee Haughey, Nancy Teigen• Special Coliro (originally known as FineTec) Sparkle Gouache pan imported from the

manufacturer in Germany in a round magnetic nib box. (another gift from FWCG that was prepared by Angie Vangalis and her mom Athena Kitsianis).

• Terrific handlettered and hand made nametags were made by Angie Vangalis.Special THANKS to those who presented rememberances of certain periods of our history or expressed other appreciations extemporaneously! (What a JOY!): Mary Jane Ott, Tom Campos, Linda Langley, “Ollie” Olivarez, Judy Johannesen, Catherine Burkhard, Lynda Kemple, PLUS the many who stayed afterward to help take down and clean up! —Sharon Schmidt

The World of c a l l i g R a p h y

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WORKSHOPSWATERCOLOUR & LETTERING with Loredana Zega

May 15, 16 & 17, 2020

Workshop begins 4:30pm at Stacy Furniture

An FWCG workshop offering . Beginner - Advanced

WORKSHOP with Jacqueline Sullivan

FEB 6 & 7, 2021

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MAY 11-14, 2020

Lovely Lettering Retreat with Loredana Zega

Hosted by Texas Lettering Arts Council

This relaxing 3-day retreat will help improve your lettering, design and study skills in the peaceful setting of the Springhill Retreat Center located in Richardson, Texas . Dancing with Pens, Dry Brush Flame Script Lettering and Experimental Embossing are the areas students will explore . Open to intermediate and advanced ability levels . Space is limited to 15 adult students .

INFO & SIGN UP: https://tinyurl.com/s68unfw

WORKSHOPS on the horizon

OCTOBER 24 & 25, 2020Playing with 3D Gold! - Dan Mooney, Instructor

Gold on top of Gold on top of Gold on top of Gold!Bonus Saturday Night Lecture:“Citations that Sparkle”

see attached flyer!


P .O . Box 101732Fort Worth, TX 76185

Map by Mary DeChellis.

This month: Get Well Cards

A church will provide the cards,

postage stamps and envelopes. Let’s

send encouragement in the for

m of a

hand-lettered envelope with them in mind.

• Names and addresses,

envelopes and stamps plus

the cards will be provide

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at no cost to the guild.

• Simply bring your favorite

pen, ink and tools.

Service Project

*White’s Chapel UMC is providing the cards and they will be mailed in a large box with a care package of goodies.

Meeting/PARTY InformationJoin us: February “Second Sunday” for

the meeting and Valentine Party of Fort Worth Calligraphers Guild:

S U N D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 9 T H

Valentine Party and Hand-lettered Card Exchange

Bedford Public Library: 1:30 for set up and service project time*, a short business meeting at 2:00 with desserts and card festivities following .

Desserts and hand-lettered valentine cards will be featured at our February meeting . The cards will be acknowledged each separately so that the card designer can share the techniques, media and tools they used . Then cards will be “drawn” by number so that each person who brought a card will “win” a card to take home .

You might mention how you selected the quote you chose, also the color choices if significant,

the writing fluids, the kind of paper you chose and why -- these remarks are part of the educational sharing we do in the guild .

Bedford Public Library2424 Forest Ridge Drive, BedfordBusiness Meeting — 2:00 p .m .*

Program — about 2:30 p .m .

* SERVICE PROJECT…Come early and/or stay late .

CONTACT USwww .fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Gina Tanner, Presidentpresident@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Angie Vangalis, Vice Presidentvicepresident@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Nancy Teigen, Secretarysecretary@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Cayetano Olivarez, Treasurertreasurer@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Sharon Schmidt, Newsletter Editornews@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Judy Johannesen, Workshopsworkshops@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

Linda M. Jonesmembership@fortworthcalligraphersguild .com

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