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| ©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC |
The Calligraphy Guild of Indiana was fortunate to have Harvest Crittenden in town this past weekend for Harvest's "The Antique Page" workshop. This piece above is a work in progress.
When I am done, it is going to look like......
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| ©Harvest Crittenden - Acorn Arts |
This!!
(Well....maybe....with any luck, it will sort of look like this.)
This is Harvest's sample piece. It is even more gorgeous in person.
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| ©Harvest Crittenden - Acorn Arts |
Speaking of gorgeous in person, this is Harvest. She is an amazing artist, calligrapher, engrosser and Master Penman. She was inducted as a Master Penman at the 2010 International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting (IAMPETH) convention in Orlando. Including Harvest, there are only 10 Master Penmen within the IAMPETH membership.
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| ©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC |
In the photo above, Harvest is showing us beautiful examples of her antiqued papers and is explaining how she accomplished each of them. We can't wait to get started!
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| Illuminated "J" by Harvest Crittenden |
As an added bonus, Harvest demonstrated how to gild with Instacoll and patent gold. The paper was "antiqued" with a coffee stain.
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| ©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC |
Here are a few of my antiqued papers. We tried a variety of Harvest's secret recipes, each resulting in a different look. This page was done with a combination of the raspberry, peach and walnut stains.
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| ©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC |
This page was done with the green stain, a bit of coffee staining and some tissue napkin collage.
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| ©Jane Farr Calligraphy & Design LLC |
The workshop was a blast! A giant, messy play date! I look forward to aging these pages even further by adding some lettering and photo transfers.
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| Harvest Crittenden and Jane Farr |
Harvest is a great instructor. She is very well prepared and thorough. Visit her website to see all her spectacular work and to see the other workshops she teaches. (Click here) She will be doing workshops for guilds in Los Angeles and Minneapolis in the very near future. Harvest will be co-teaching the Spencerian Saga with Michael Sull this year. She will also be teaching at the 2011 IAMPETH convention this summer in Phoenix. Registration for the IAMPETH convention is now open for members. Have you registered?! I have!!! Registration will soon be open for non-members. Spots are filling up. For more info, click here. Please let me know if you'll be there. I'd love to meet you!
My Google Reader is bursting at the seams. I apologize for not being able to visit all my friends in blogland. Wedding season is in full swing for us calligraphers! I hope to pay you a visit today and see what you've been up to lately.
Have a great and flourishy weekend!
It's March Madness!!!!!!
xo
Jane
