Want to Learn Calligraphy?

This just in from the Life Enrichment Center, 9704 N. Boulevard:

The Life Enrichment Center is registering now for a Calligraphy Workshop for adults. Drawing Into Painting.  Award winning artist Minnette Webster will teach students in a small group setting. The workshop is open to all levels, beginning to experienced. Students will complete a finished piece during the session.

In this class students will learn the five “hands” in calligraphy: Single stroke, Roman, Manuscript Italic, Cursive Italic, Modified Chauncery Cursive, and Gothic or Black Letter.

Additionally, the following will be introduced: borders, line finished, papers to use in calligraphy, spacing, placement on lines, and exciting and unusual techniques. 

The calligraphy workshop will be held on Thursday, November 1, from 1-3 p.m.  Classes meet at the Life Enrichment Center, 9704 North Boulevard.  Cost for the 2-hour workshop is $25, including supplies.

This workshop is part of Life Enrichment Center’s new fall series of Thursday Afternoon Art Workshops, with a different topic and teacher each week, Future workshops will include collage, printing without a press/mono-prints, watercolor, drawing, Sumi-e Asian brush painting, acrylics, oils, cartooning, and more.

Class size is limited and requires advance registration.  To register or for more information about this or other Life Enrichment Center classes, call (813) 932-0241 or visit their web site at www.LECtampa.org.