Calligraphy for Bethany Church

This was written for the church newsletter;

Rev. Sadie Stone is giving a sermon series based on the Seven Next Words of Christ found in the Gospels and written about by Shane Stanford in his book, “The Seven Next Words of Christ” published in 2006. The Worship Committee reviewed the scriptural passages and agreed that the Seven Next Words would be our worship focus following Easter until Pentecost. Dorothy Yuki, designer and artist, and a friend of Gloria Soliz’s has written out key words from the scriptures in calligraphy. Ms. Yuki’s artwork will help us reflect each week on one of the 7 phrases that will be framed on the large wooden cross in our worship center during Eastertide.

Here they are all together. Each strip is watercolored for the background and then script written. 3"X14" on watercolor paper.

with pen white ink

with Noodler's

with Noodler's ink

with gouache

with watercolor

with ink

ink and Finetec metallic

FOLDED LUMINARES

Gloria Soliz needed something for the altar at Bethany Church for Pentecost.  She liked the luminaries we made for Art At The Table, a fund raiser for Ruth's Table.  She thought they would make beautiful ones with colored paper to look like flames.  We bought marbelized paper from Flax Art Supply and began.  Since she wanted them larger, I made new templates and supports.  We also needed a tutorial for future Ruth's Table workshops and so we met at Ruth's Table and took photos and videos of the process. Tomoko Lipp and Gloria both recorded and helped make these.  I will also make a written tutorial. This is a photo of the finished products.  This is all because we had a wonderful inspiration from Aiko Cuneo and her forms for Art At The Table centerpieces.

We did variations of the three red and the two gold luminares.

Today we began by gluing two pieces of the papers to make a long sheet..I showed how to make sure the clean cut edge remains straight and the glued edges overlap nicely.

Next we determined the size of the accordian folds with what limitation the paper gave us.

Then we made the star base support.  Giving each a geometric way to do this easily.

Then the papers were accordian folded as I had learned to do it in book making.  This gives an even and straight fold.

The base of the folds were cut and a center angle fold was determined and I explained about the angle ..steeper, the straighter the folded paper stood, less steep, the fuller it can be.This angle will also determine the bottom cut of the folds that fit on the star support.

We agreed to make three stars supports, one to fit into the other. 

We finished with these 5 and Gloria was very happy.