GOOD LUCK DESIGNERS OF FISF 2012

Good luck to the designers we had at the Macy's Fashion Incubator San Francisco 2012.  Here are the 6 flowers I made from W (womens wear daily magazine) as a good bye token for each of them.

So many Birthdays!

 

Lots of birthdays in January and February of friends and family.  Here are a few Birthday inserts I did on black paper with Sakura of America's glaze and gel metallic pens.

LETTER'S CALIFORNIA STYLE

This was the  first time for me to attend this conference in Pomona, California.  The Society for Calligraphy puts on this event annually.  It was wonderful.  The selection of teachers, the venue and the camaradarie were perfect.  I took the Randy Hasson class, The Personality of the Letterform.  He was a great teacher and I really learned a lot.

This was the first of the Mongolian letterform I chose.  My first page that was later washed away.

This is the way we dried our pages in our journals made of Nujabi watercolor paper from India.

My study of one of the Mongolian letter forms and it's structure.

My second study of another Mongolian style script.

A mix of the two and using walnut ink, gesso and gel medium.

  There is my name tag on the left and my the final outcome of the above piece.

With canvas board that Randy gave to each of us, this is my piece.

Close-up of the letterforms I developed from the Mongolian Script.  It does say something and you may be able to read it.

I decided to finish the study pages with crackle medium, gesso and gel medium on my forms of walnut and sumi ink.  But it still isn't finished.  I must go back to it someday and finish it....

Randy gave us cotton muslin tote bags to design so that we had something to take all our stuff home in.  My name is written in the Mongolian script style with my own letterforms.  You may be able to see d o r o t h y  y u k i  t s u y a k o. 

I thought it would be a good idea if everyone could do their letterforms they were studying and use it as their signatures on the bags of other student's totes.  This is the back of my bag with my logo of the dot inside a square and the signatures.

LUCA BARCELLONA WORKSHOP

The Friends of Calligraphy with the help of Linnea Lundquist and Ward Dunham arranged a wonderful workshop with Luca Barcellona of Milan, Italy.  All 20 of us were delighted and engaged with his expert hand.  FRAKTUR IN THE FOG (we didn't have any fog though).

This is the Montara Lighthouse entrance leading to our workshop building.

This is the caretakers home at the Montara lighthouse.

The shower schedule scripted by Suzy Taylor with appropriate quotes.

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First Sunset.  We were fortunate to have clear but very cold weather.

Part of our lesson on fraktur lower forms.

This is a sample of Luca Barcellona's original pieces..

wonderful!

TRIVIAL PURSUITS XXV

The 25th anniversary of Trivial Pursuit took place on January 12, 2013.  The event is for the Friends of Calligraphy...members gift to members.  I was the coordinator again this year and made a silver banner to mark the occasion.  49 people of which there were 40 students, 6 teachers, and 3 volunteers.
(More photos forthcoming)

Close up of the banner pieces before hanging, cut up practice calligraphy paper, glitter card stock and black cut out letters.

P, U and R on metallic ribbon to connect letters.

Full  8 foot length that is to be hung in the hall where we had our event.  This was taken in my home.

Sandy Hook Snowflakes

 Check out my friend's site   http://tourofnoregrets.com/2012/12/19/snowflakes-for-sandy-hook

So with her suggestion I made 26 snowflakes to send to the Connecticut PTSA.  Here are the finished snowflakes being sent tomorrow 12/21/2012. 

SCRAP SHOW AT THE ARC GALLERY

The SCRAP  art show where artists used materials that have been repurposed or recycled is now exhibiting at the ARC gallery in Soma San Francisco until January 9.  I was lucky enough to have my piece accepted.  Here I am with my piece made with papers from a discarded atlas, corrugated packing paper, and old wire.

Monica Lee and her cake made of discarded book pages.

Megumi Inouye with her piece made from papers that were donated to the paper section at SCRAP...ledger paper, old calendars, maps, file folders...so on...

Kenan Shapiro also had her quilt piece from discarded fabric scraps and joined us in this photo.

Some of the pieces from other artists....