| UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS |
Valley Calligraphy Guild dues are due.
Please click on Membership at the top of this page for details on how to send in your dues and other details about the VCG. |
| December 2024 |
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting
Program - Origami Book
Angela Miller and Anne Krush will demonstrate how to make a folded book with an insert of text pages.
SUPPLY LIST
Folded Cover
3-5 sheets of 8 1/2” x 11” regular weight paper (copy paper, decorated art, scrapbook. No cardstock.)
Ruler
Pencil
Bone folder
Interior text pages
4-6 sheets of plain paper measuring 4 1/4” x 5 1/2”
Bookbinding thread ( waxed linen or hemp)
Tapestry needle to fit thread
Awl
Glass of eggnog, wine, or Holiday beverage of your choice. |
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VCG at the 24th Authors and Artists Fair
Saturday, December 14
10am - 5pm in the Atrium of the Lane Events Center (Lane County Fairgrounds)
796 West 13th Avenue
Eugene OR |
| January 2025 |
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting
Program - Debra Ferreboeuf will present a Fun, Flirty and Playful Alphabet
Fun, flirty, light hearted and playful is the tone of this delightful little alphabet. Using a pointed pen you will incorporate your own sense of style to this unstructured “whimsical” hand of calligraphy.
Because of its free wheeling nature, you will find that it is perfect to use for personal notes
and correspondence, quotations that want to dance around on a page or any time you are just feeling sassy. Little pen capitals are the perfect accompaniment for quick and easy addressing.
The only prerequisite is to know how to write! So yes, it is for everyone.
After some play time with the pointed pen we will follow a “guide” for minuscule and majuscule letters and numbers.Then it’s off to a full fun fest of just writing.There will be lots of examples and ideas on how to use your new found love for Valentine's Day! |
| February 2025 |
| 13 |
Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting |
| March 2025 |
| 13 |
Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting |
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Recordings of past programs (below)
currently available only to VCG members |
Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting - Feb. 2023
Program: NEULAND with EMBELLISHMENTS with SUE GREENSETH
Sue Greenseth is a professional calligrapher and graphic artist. She is an officer with the Portland Society of Calligraphy and teaches calligraphy workshops throughout the US. Her program will be teaching us her Neuland along with fun ways to embellish the script.
Supplies
- 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen (inked up and ready to go!)
- Paper: I prefer Gilbert Bond, but I'll leave it up to each individual to choose what they like best.
- Guidelines: People can rule their own lines, or they can use the guide I've attached. We'll also talk about working at a very small 2 pen width X-height, but not spend much time there.
Optional materials:
- Pens: Glaze pens, glitter gel pens, Signo Uni-Ball
- Markers: thin black markers such as Pigma Micron 01, or Pilot Hi-Tec-C 03 (or whatever they have)
- Pencil for shading.
- Click to download Neuland exemplar and guidelines
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting - March 2023
Program: Carolingian demonstration by Yuki Tanaka
Supply list
• Nib — 3mm — nib like Michell #1/ Speedball C-2, pen holder & ink or
• Pilot Parallel Pen 3mm
• practice paper — layout bond or your favorite
click for exemplar, guidelines and samples
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by Sheila Waters from Under Milkwood |
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting - April 2023
PROGRAM - Embellishing Copperplate with Aries Manoff
Watch Aries as she adds simple embellishments and cartouches to Copperplate pointed pen lettering. See designs that would work with any pointed pen script and can be used to add extra pizzazz to an envelope or card.
Supply list
Practice paper – HP Premium 32lb or whatever you prefer to practice with
Blank card
Straight pen or Oblique pen
Sumi Ink
Walnut Ink
Fintec (Colorio) Watercolor
G Nib (more stiff)
Brause 66EF Nib (very flexible!!)
Watercup
Paper Towel
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting - May 2023
Program: The Magic of Mica with Suzie Beringer
Who doesn’t like a little sparkle and shimmer? Come and learn why Suzie loves to work with mica. She will discuss some of the many things she does to make hers unique. |
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Valley Calligraphy Guild General Meeting - October 2023
Program - Folk Art and More! A Pilot Parallel Pen class with Violet Smythe
Handouts for the meeting
Circle Templates for Mandalas
Pilot Parallel Pens
Folk Art and More handout
Supplies for meeting
· Pilot Parallel pen—whatever you have in hand—sizes 6.0mm to 3.8mm will be demonstrated
· Fountain pen inks (Pelikan, J Herbin, Robert Oster, etc. ) and or Ecoline liquid watercolour and or walnut ink
· layout paper that takes your favourite ink without bleeding
· 1/4” graph/grid paper
· Ruler and pencil
Optional
· watercolour, white gouache, palette, brush for loading, water container, paper towels
· Card stock and or watercolour paper and or Strathmore Watercolour cards
· compass
See flyer
Click for Violet's blog
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VCG General Meeting - November 2023
Program: Exploring your ruling/folding pen with Judy Black
We will be playing with ruling/folding pens, so dig them out.
If you do not have one, don’t worry. You can watch YouTube Videos and make one.
How to make a Folded Pen
DIY Folded Ruling Pen
How to make a Soda Can Pen
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Judy will show different types of these pens and the marks that they make. Everyone can experiment with pens, make marks and show us what you created.
Heidi Stolp will demonstrate some lettering styles that can be adapted to the ruling/folding pen’s unique mark making capabilities. |
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VCG General Meeting - February 2024
Laura Drager will take us on a quick tour of Ireland and the exhibit of the Book of Kells.
Then she will show us how to make some easy celtic knots.
Warning - the knots become an addiction once you start.
Supply list - pencil and graph paper
examples below
Simple Celtic Knot
Trinity Knot |
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VCG General Meeting - March 2024
Program - TAG BOOK
Judy Black and Heidi Stolp will demonstrate how to create a little tag book from either commercial mailing tags or tags made from the provided template and card stock or decorated papers from your own paper supply.
Add your own greeting, drawings or quote as a gift for any special occasion.
Many sample ideas will be shared.
SUPPLY LIST
• Commercial mailing tags or cardstock or like weighted paper
• ¼” hole punch
• Ribbon or twine – 8”
• Bone folder
• Ruler/pencil/scissors
Tag book template |
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VCG General Meeting - April 2024
Program - Letter and Turn with Melanie Payne
Supply list
- Black paper - Canson, Artagain, or Bee Paper (spiral bound jet-black charcoal/Pastel paper from Blick)
- White ink — I use a Molotow Acrylic Marker 1.5 mm or 2.00 mm - OR - Uniball Signo White
- Colored pencils - Any kind will do
- I recommend jewel tones as colors, but people are welcome to use what they have.
- I will demo with Prismacolor Premier and Koh-I-Noor Tri-Tone pencils
- Metallic Silver and/or Metallic Gold color pencil to add highlights
- Ruler
click to learn about Melanie and see samples of her work |
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VCG General Meeting - May 2024
Program - Have you ever wondered about Scribbled Lives?
Judy Black has been a participant in Carol DuBosch's Scribbled Lives group for years.
Judy, Betty Locke and Carol Sterry shared their experiences and showed many examples of the weekly challenges.
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VCG General Meeting - November 2024
Program - Betty Locke presents Just Give Me A Pen
See examples and exemplar |
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