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In this short course you will learn how to make an illustrated map or series of maps that can fold neatly into a book or inside a book. You will use new drawing, lettering and painting skills to combine image and words that record a real or imaginary place.
Your tutor will guide and teach you through the process of drawing, lettering and recording, with short exercises for everyone, and then individually through to completion of your own design. She will demonstrate ways to sort and plan your design, how to apply colour quickly and different contemporary ways to write so information becomes an integral part of the design.
Your finished map can be a series of quick sketches or more detailed illustrations. Your lettering can be either formal calligraphy or informal brush, pen or pencil writing or a combination.
You will learn about different ways to fold and cut a single sheet of paper to make a map, how to combine pen and wash in fast and effective ways and how to use lettering that fits with your design. You will record quick notes and sketches as we go along, in a small sketchbook.
Your aim will be to make an original and personal map of somewhere important to you. This could be a favourite walk, where you live, studied or where you grew up, a parish map, or from a book you love. It could be part of a travel journal or a memory map, or an illustration to a story. The beautiful surroundings of West Dean and its gardens may also be used as inspiration. It will be a personal record to share, inspire, remind or guide others to that place.
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops until 9pm, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Helen is a Fellow of the Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society, FCLAS; and a full member of Letter Exchange and designs the Edge. She studied Illustration, completed the (SSI) Advanced Training Scheme, and is an Accredited Calligraphy Tutor and experienced Art Teacher. She recently spent a year as a full-time student at the European Lettering Institute in Bruges.
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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