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Barcelona, Igualada; France (Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye, Isère); England (Ulpha, The Lake District, Cumbria); Tàrrega, Amposta, Seville...
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Cal.ligrafia a Barcelona Caligrafia en Barceloa Calligraphy in Barcelona
2017: Summer/Été/Estiu/Verano
England & France,
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SUMMER 2017 COURSES in ENGLAND in the
Two courses:
Six days of historical and modern Italic Calligraphy
14 - 19 July 2017
Six days of historical and modern Italic Calligraphy. An intensive course experience with Barcelona-based calligraphers, Keith & Amanda Adams, at a stunning Lake District location.
Learn to write scripts based on Spanish and English historical sources including José Casanovas and Queen Elizabeth I along with modern interpretations. We will make our own pens and enhance our writing with beautiful flourishes and decorative techniques. Beginners are welcome; advanced scribes will receive more exacting instruction.
BRING (if you can): Ordinary fountain-pen ink (Quink, Waterman, Pelikan 4001—NOT «India ink»), pen-holder, pencil, eraser/rubber, scissors/cutter, ruler, set-square/triangle, & your preferred textes. If you don’t have these materials, don’t worry: we will have them to share at the course.
followed by six days of Art Nouveau Lettering
Six days of British and Catalan Art Nouveau/Modernist Lettering. An intensive Calligraphy experience with Barcelona-based calligraphers, Keith & Amanda Adams, at a stunning Lake District location.
Study the letterforms designed in the late XIX & early XX Centuries in Catalonia and the UK, based on Keith's original research for teaching at the Catalan National Art Museum (MNAC) & other sources. We will explore the fluid & seductive letterforms and decorative techniques of the period. Beginners are welcome; advanced scribes will receive more exacting instruction.
BRING (if you can): Ordinary fountain-pen ink (Quink, Waterman, Pelikan 4001—NOT «India ink»), pen-holder, pencil, eraser/rubber, scissors/cutter, ruler, set-square/triangle, & your preferred textes. If you don’t have these materials, don’t worry: we will have them to share at the course.
Calligraphy Cumbria, UK
Information about the course content:
keith7amanda@gmail.com
STAGES D'ÉTÉ 2017 de CALLIGRAPHIE en FRANCE
Une semaine de Calligraphie Italique (Chancellière)
historique et moderne,
BRING (if you can): Ordinary fountain-pen ink (Quink, Waterman, Pelikan 4001—NOT «India ink»), pen-holder, pencil, eraser/rubber, scissors/cutter, ruler, set-square/triangle, & your preferred textes. If you don’t have these materials, don’t worry: we will have them to share at the course.
suite par
Une Semaine de Majuscules Romaines
au pinceau et à la plume
7 - 14 août 2017
APPORTEZ (si vous pouvez): Encre scolaire normale (Quink, Waterman, Pelikan 4001—encre «Chine»: NON!), porte-plume, crayon, gomme, ciseaux ou cutter, règle, équerre, & vos textes préférés. Si vous n’en avez pas, ne vous préoccupez pas: ce matériel vous sera fourni sur place.
Information sur l'hébergement:
www.arche-de-st-antoine.com
arche.de.st.antoine@wanadoo.fr
Keith & Amanda Adams
mobile: [+34] 647 115935
e-mail: keith7amanda@gmail.com
2017: Otoño en España
Keith in Toledo in the Autumn
En el taller tendremos ocasión de manejar y analizar varios originales, así como facsímiles de las Horas de Visconti y otros ejemplos de rotundas italianas y españolas. Practicaremos con plumilla de oca, cálamo y plumas metálicas y de lata, y realizaremos algunas decoraciones.
Fechas: del 13 al 15 de octubre
Lugar: Convento de los Carmelitas Descalzos (casco histórico de Toledo).
Precio: 350€, incluyendo pensión completa (con desayuno, comida y cena) y parking gratuito dentro del convento.
250€ para los asistentes en régimen externo.
KEITH
ADAMS, M.A., OXON, est professeur de calligraphie au departement de
dessin graphique de EINA
(Université Autonome de Barcelone).
AMANDA
est ex-presidente de la Society for Calligraphy & Handwriting
(Seattle, USA), Premier Prix
Écriture Italique de la Society for Italic
Handwriting (Londres), 1993, 1996, & 2001.
Renseignements
sur la pédagogie:
Keith & Amanda Adams
téléphone portable: [+34] 647 11 59 35 e-mail:
keith7amanda@gmail.com
Calligrapher Keith Adams inscribes the façade of Alcuino Scriptorium, in Urueña, Villa del Libro, the first "BookTown" in Spain, with the text of Chapter 50 of Don Quijote...
Saint Athanasius' Life of Saint Anthony the Great, in the fourth floor corridor at Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye by Keith Adams.