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SPENCERIAN: with Bill Kemp
The pointed pen has been his real favorite. His focus has mainly been in Engrosser's Script (more commonly known as Copperplate) and Spencerian Handwriting, and has studied under Pen Masters Bill Lilly and Specerian master, Michael Sull. Bill has been teaching in Albuquerque for several years through Escribiente and on his own. For the pass three years he has been invited to teach at Castle in the Air, in Berkeley, California. The classes that have been repeated several times are Spencerian, Illumination and Copperplate. SPENCERIAN WORKSHOP Day One: • Learn the usage of the pointed pen and the oblique penholder • Discuss about the different nibs, papers and inks • Learning the basic strokes to the script for the lower case letters • Applying the basic strokes to make the letters • The letters in the lower case are broken down into families • Those groups will be taught and once more groups/families are learn then words can start to me made. This will lead into spacing of the letters and the words that we are writing. • Learning all 26 letters and an intro to the capitals Day Two: • Starting out with a warm-up and any questions from the previous day • Starting off with the letter A and going to Z. Unlike the lower case, the capitals do not fall into a family like the lower case. • As we do the capitals I will show a few different capitals as alternatives. • As we learn the capitals I will stress that the students write the capital letter with lower case letters to form words. This will all me to see how the student is forming the capitals and the spacing of the lower case letters to the capital. As I go by each student I can show the how there letter form is good or bad, but provide guidance on how to make the letters during the day. • Final project • Writing a phase, addressing an envelope or whatever the student wishes to write • Will demonstrate white ink (Dr. Martin's bleed proof white) on dark paper • Will demonstrate how to address an envelope About Spencerian: Spencer wrote several books and developed his writing system that was used in a majority of the public schools throughout the United States in the late 1800's. After his death in 1864 his sons cared on his teaching methods and principals to the turn of the century. In the early 1900's when the public school system wished to standardize the handwriting taught throughout the United States , Spencerian Script lost out to another handwriting system called the Palmer Method (who's developer was a student of Platt Roger Spencer, his name was Austin Palmer). Platt Roger Spencer was considered to be the father of the Golden Age of Ornamental Penmanship which was from 1850 to 1925. HOW TO REGISTER FOR WORKSHOPS: Costs of workshops are as listed. As space is limited, non-members may take a workshop for an additional $20.00 fee ($105/$64 total) if there is space. Checks should be made payable to "Friends of the Alphabet". Deposit is non-refundable unless the work shop does not make quota. Only a sign up with deposit will hold your place for the weekend. Registration:To register for a workshop, give or send your registration form and non-refundable $45.00 deposit to hold your space to: Terms and Conditions
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