Paul Antonio Fraktur and Flourishing - Hybrid Day 2
Sun, Jul 14
|Vienna
For those of you who may have followed Paul online, good news! He is coming to the DC area this summer! This event will be hybrid July 13 & 14th at Vienna Arts from 10-5:00 each day In person: $190 members, $210 non-members Virtual: $95 members, $110 non members
Time & Location
Jul 14, 2024, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Vienna, 243 Church St NW Suite 100 LL, Vienna, VA 22180, USA
About the event
Fraktur and its attendant Flourishing
From Paul -
I love Fraktur, it is the reason I became a scribe. I have always taught flourishing as a separate course as I feel too many teachers add it on at the end of a script. In this two day workshop, I will teach you how to get started with Fraktur and will incorporate the teaching of the specific types of flourishes used to accompany the script.
Day 1 will start us off with pencil work, you will find the writing of the script with the pencil first will allow for faster learning of the script and its flourishes. Comfort with the pencil is important and it will also help us to feel the writing of the script and the flourishes without the stress of a broad nib.The pencil work will also open up some historical pointed nib Fraktur I discovered in the…