This 2-Day (9+ hour) workshop, Professor and Calligrapher, Mark Van Stone teaches the basic vocabulary and structures of:
• Romaneque Versal-structure: Basically Capital or Uncial letters with exaggerated entasis and serifs.
• Versals built of straps of consistent width, and their binding “hardware” of “cuffs”, “rivets”, etc.
• Sprouts, leaves, branching, flowers, petals, and other building-blocks of vinework.
• How to construct beautiful growth-curves, with spiraling, interwoven, and balanced branching.
Professor Van Stone's teachers were the Medieval artists who made the manuscripts that enthrall us today. Having deciphered their techniques by scrutiny and experiment, he employed their ingenious improvisatory decorations in his own calligraphy work for decades. These are the easiest and most improvisational illuminated-letter techniques. Although none of these require gilding (though one can add it for accents, or the letterform in Renaissance White Vine can be gilt).

The lessons have been created in parts for optimal self-pacing.
Download the Supply List and Handouts prior to starting the class and get ready to study Versals & White Vine Decoration!
All skill levels are welcome.