Long Village Studio

Tomorrow will be a wonderful day on ZOOM! I am looking forward to teaching some of my embellishments with a marker flexible brush to a full workshop with members of the Triangle Calligrapher's Guild in Raleigh, NC! Then on Sunday I will teach again to the overflow crowd! If you are a member of another Calligraphy Guild and are looking for new programs, please contact me!

I am looking forward to leading students through some exercises with the pointed brush marker to be able to create little flowers and flourishes for personnel projects. Contact me if interested in registering for this March 19th class. For further information, link here

If you enjoy instagram -  you can find me on it  @clangsdorf_calligrapher here are some of my recent post images:

 I love getting ready to teach . . . well, mostly. There are some nerves involved, the kind that makes you wonder 'what am I doing.' But overall, I learn so much from getting ready. Trying to figure out what I bring to the students that is fresh and will help them move forward in the quest. Also, I try to prepare hand outs that will give a visual for what we are working towards. I was very pleased with how these designs came out. One just never knows when everything will align and you produce a finished project that makes you pleased that you sat down to create.

A small design job for a couple. Even little finished pieces take time to work out the details.

imagine blog , a photo by long village lettering on Flickr. Pointed brush lettering on fabric.

alpha red Originally uploaded by long village lettering Last Wednesday I enjoyed several hours at Conn-Artist studio. It was great to be in a room with other folks working on projects. While I am the only calligrapher there, they are so welcoming and encouraging. I got several designs done but still working on a final outcome.

alpha brush w.flowers (3) Originally uploaded by long village lettering Trying to balance my time with calligraphy and tangling. Here is a handout I use when I teach brush lettering. I'm getting a class together at a wonderful studio, Conn-Art http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Conn-Artist-Studios-Art-Gallery

I'm getting ready to offer a brush lettering class, so I'm brushing up. It is designed to sit as a diamond, so rotate your head 45 degrees :) This was created by using a black brush marker on black paper.  The ink has a different finish, so you can barely see it. Then the negative space was colored with colored pencils.