Instructor: DeAnn Singh
Sponsor: Westside Regional
Description:
DeAnn teaches a variety of holiday gift giving ideas for all your friends, family, and fellow calligraphers! Explore lettered gift wrap, holiday cards and envelopes, tags, and other creations, that are easy to do, using your own lettering supplies!
Also, learn recommended tools to give as studio gifts to both newbies and the experienced. From either new or recycled materials!
Suitable for all levels - both newbies and experienced
Registration details
Fee: $35 PayPal or Pay by check
Workshop for SfC members only. Non-members can join SfC for a separate $42 fee. Please click the following link to join SfC https://societyforcalligraphy.org/Join-SfC Membership can be used for any workshop/class through June 30, 2026.
Pay via PayPal. PayPal option includes non-refundable PayPal fees
Pay by check
Students must be set up to take a Zoom class with video and audio (signed on one device); access to a printer is required to print the handouts.
Zoom set-up and audio test begins at 11:45 AM, 15 minutes prior to the start of the class.
This is a “Live” only Zoom session, no recording
Contact: Barbara or Judy CalligraphyWLA@aol.com with any questions or concerns.
Presenter: Veronica Phillips. SAVE THE DATE!
Sponsored by
WORKSHOP WILL OPEN SOON
Wednesdays, January 7, 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 2026 Online - Zoom
PAID WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO MEMBERS, ONLY
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Join us for a journey into creativity, introspection, hand lettering and play. We will start with two full sheets of Arches Text Wove and will create spaces and areas to design our own unique art.
To begin, we will review and warm up with Casual Romans and variations. Playing with variations of our own handwriting and favorite calligraphic hands will be explored.
Prompts will be offered to provide some introspection and contemplation. We will also use poetry, quotes and your own personal journaling. We will continue with a variety of art techniques, color play, and design. Collage, mask making, rubber stamps, small gel plate, watercolors, stencils, washi tape, masking and more will be techniques for our class.
The final step on this journey will be bookbinding. We will tear down our colorful sheets and sew the books with a unique binding technique.
This is a fast paced, fun and playful class. It will be a doorway for you to continue in your book at anytime in your art practice. Beginners and experts alike are welcome.
The supply list will be sent immediately upon registration. Handouts and Zoom link will be provided a week in advance. Sessions will be recorded and available for three months.
ABOUT VERONICA: I began my Calligraphy journey in the late 80's. I was fortunate to study with Reggie Ezell year long class program and then three semesters with Tim Botts. My true love has always been Roman Letters. Studying with Peter Thornton has given me the discipline and creative permission to explore this art form for many years. In addition to Calligraphy, I do enjoy bookbinding and all sorts of mixed media play. I am now retired and able to enjoy the time and freedom it offers. I live in the Arizona desert and am a member of The Calligraphic Society of Arizona.
Another Example: Uncut, unbound page spreads from our friend Joyce in Gilbert, AZ:
Enrollment is for current paid Society for Calligraphy members only. Your membership must be current at time of sign-up as well as when class is held. No reservation will be held until your dues are current. If your membership lapses, you become ineligible. (To become a member: https://societyforcalligraphy.org/Join-SfC) No refunds unless your space can be filled from the waitlist. For confirmation and prompt receipt of supply list, we recommend that your payment arrive no later than two weeks before the workshop. You do not have a spot in the workshop until you receive a confirmation email.
After completing the first step of registration, an automatic email will be sent with a PayPal button, plus instructions, should you prefer to pay by check. If you don't receive that email within a few minutes, please check your spam folder. If you don't find it there, please contact Kristi.
Questions? E-mail Kristi Darwick at sdworkshops@societyforcalligraphy.org
NO audio or video recording of any program, meeting, workshop or other SfC function permitted without prior consent of both guest artist and a representative of the Board of Governors. ** You must ask permission of the artist/ instructor to photograph any copyrighted materials, including demos.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 2025, 10:00AM-1:30PM PST
SAVE THE DATE - DETAILS TO FOLLOW
No charge - Outreach
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM:
Join us! We’re painting a colorful kissing fish design
that is actually a Zoomorphic from a 9th century Spanish manuscript.
In this paint along you are:
• Welcome to use you choice of colors as long as they’re middle tones so that we can shade and highlight your painting.
• Welcome to use your favorite medium such as gouache, watercolors, color pencils or take this opportunity to play and experiment with new materials.
• Use your favorite brand of small brushes just be sure they’re round and pointed
• Upon registration you will receive the materials list and the Pattern. The Pattern is yours to keep and use forever. Print out the Pattern on your favorite paper that will go thru a copier. I recommend Arches Text Wove.
This is a relaxed ONLINE class. The mic is open for questions and solutions. There’s a lot of sharing and individual attention to your work.
SUPPLY LIST:
OPTIONAL:
Membership in SfC is not required
Zoom invitation and handouts are sent a couple days in advance.
It's not guaranteed that you'll receive them beforehand, if you sign up the day of this event.
Deposit Registration is open for our 2026 conference. The deposit amount is $50 which is non-refundable.
As at November 20, 2025, not all classes are available. Check the conference page for class availability.
The venue for 2026 will be the Sonesta Hotel Los Angeles Airport.
Join us for this amazing event!
The updated brochure can be found here: https://societyforcalligraphy.com/Conferences
Please read the brochure carefully for all information and if your questions are not answered then please contact the Registrar at lettersregistrar@gmail.com.
Your confirmation email will indicate the next steps for registration.
FLEXIBLE LETTERS AND FLOWING LINES with Nancy Hays-Hills
Sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Regional Group
This is your chance to spend a few hours breaking free of pen angles and straight lines, and instead dip your toes into the ocean of drawn letterforms which follow their own paths across the page. We’ll explore a number of tools suitable for drawing letters, from pencils and pointed pens to edged nibs and my favorite, the Kemper Fluid Writer. You’ll see how simple it is to add multiple colors to a letter as you create words that dance to your own inner rhythm. This is a class open to all skill levels. The beginner will discover new tools, and the more advanced letterers may find that they return to traditional scripts with a fresh perspective on form and negative space.
WORKSHOP FEE: $50.00
