Texas Lettering Arts Council/Chaos & Harmony; Introduction to Ruling Pen

  • $75

Chaos & Harmony; Introduction to Ruling Pen

  • Course
  • 8 Lessons

Viktor Kams, Instructor The Ruling Pen is a versatile tool that can achieve a wide range of strokes, splatters and rough edges in your calligraphic compositions. This 4-hr workshop includes an overview of Ruling and Folded pens, exercises to understand manipulation of this unique tool, based on the Italic hand, expressive strokes using aligned vs. bounced proportion principles, along with ink and paper choices.

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Chaos & Harmony Resources
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RulingPenDallas2024Handouts.pdf
Chaos&HarmonyDemoPages.pdf
Zoom Chat for Hybrid class on 5 MAR 2024

Chaos & Harmony Part 1 Video

Viktor Kams Ruling Pen Collection

This first section of three parts is about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Viktor introduces the different types of ruling pens, reviews the handouts, along with presenting the basic strokes for lettering, demonstrating the lower case of the alphabet ductus in families. The n, h, n, m, i, y, l, a, d, g., p, b, f, t, c, e, o.

chaos-and-harmony-rulingpen-kams-SECTION-01.mp4

Chaos & Harmony Part 2 Video

Viktor Kams Ruling Pen Names

This is the second part of three for this workshop. It is about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Viktor continues the lower case alphabet with diagonal letters k, v, w, y, x, z, s and a forgotten letter - r.

He continues with the Capital letters, which are demonstrated with the Luthis Libelula Dragonfly (Folded pen). Angie - Zelda

chaos-and-harmony-rulingpen-kams-SECTION-02.mp4

Chaos & Harmony Part 3 Video

Viktor Kams demonstrating the Dreaming Dogs Ruling pen

This is the 3rd and final part of this workshop.
It is approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Viktor demonstrates how to bounce letters with subtle rhythm and balancing stroke weights. He also uses different ruling pens and paper types to create the various line qualities.

Viktor uses a modified Pilot Parallel Pen with a cartridge containing fountain pen ink, Luthis Libelula Dragonfly (dip-pen), Diamond-shaped Ruling pen (Like the type Matthew Coffin makes), Drafter's Ruling Pen, EZ-A ruling pen, Dreaming Dogs Ruling pen, Luthis Chatta #4 (Broad-Edge) Folded pen and an unmodified Parallel pen.

He changes how he holds the pen to create strokes.

Viktor also demonstrates how to quickly fill a Parallel Pen cartridge using a FineLiner precision bottle.

He demonstrates using Dr. Ph. Martin's Bleedproof White gouache on black paper.

chaos-and-harmony-rulingpen-kams-SECTION-03.mp4