January 24th Meeting: Mouse Roman Online Workshop with Josie Brown

Time: January 24, 2025 10:00am to 12:00pm Pacific
Zoom Meeting

It’s fun, it’s lively and it’s contemporary!  This session is an  introduction to a script which is easy to learn for beginners and a light-hearted contrast to other hands for those with some experience.  It can be carried out simply in monoline form or penmanship skills can be developed using press & release techniques.  This script is particularly useful for informal and spontaneous work like greetings cards, journals or little books and anyone can play with the letterforms, enjoying their happy-go-lucky stance on the page.

Materials:

  • Small pointed nib such as a Brause 66EF or a Brause Rose nib or just a mapping nib, if you have one and nib holder.
  • HB pencil, Eraser, 30cm ruler
  • A4 (8.3″ x 11″)  OR A3 (11″ x 17″) pad of layout or cartridge paper
  • Paper towel, water container
  • Non-waterproof ink or gouache or watercolour paints (ready mixed for writing with) and a palette
  • Colour pencils  (optional)
  • Fine liner pen such as a Uni, Pilot or Staedtler pigment liner (size 0.2 or 0.3).
  • Metal rule (or metal edged ruler), cutting mat (or back of a pad) and craft knife
  • A few short, snappy or comical quotations, riddles, haikus, etc

 If you’d like to work along with the tutor, have some A4 sheets of cartridge or layout ready-ruled with pencil lines at:

  • 1 cm (X-height) and 2 cm (interlinear gap), and
  • 5 mm (x-height) and 1 cm (interlinear gap)

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