Make your own personal initial, logo, or monogram!  Refine your own personal mark for social or business correspondence. Bring your ideas. This one-day drawing and lettering design workshop presents a simple and traditional way to create a one-letter or two-letter monogram. Ampersands and art elements will be discussed. There may be time to do three letters also.

How to choose a style? The beauty of doing your own design means you have design freedom and image control. Demonstrations of hand-lettering techniques and a wide variety of good models will provide plenty to work with. You don’t have to be an expert at handlettering! The goal is to develop a well-balanced, expressive letter design surrounded by well-shaped white space and forming an attractive overall mark shape, an emblem with visual strength and impact. Start with pencil, trace and refine, build your design, and then ink it in. The outcome will be a clean black and white drawing that you can photograph or scan and refine digitally.

We will discuss all working principles and elements of design. Skills vary, and you will have a good start toward developing and possibly finishing your own monogram. If time allows, a two-letter monogram or branding image can be nicely accomplished. 

Materials to Bring: 

• Fine Point fiber tip pen: Pigma Micron .5 or Pitt, Black
• Canson Pro Layout Marker pad (translucent) or other Layout Bond with good ink holdout
• Automatic Pencil: .03 or .05

• Students may also bring:
  Broad edge pen (C-2 or C-3)
• Your favorite sketching or pointed dip pens (Speedball B-5, Brause .5 or 1mm, or pointed dip pens)
• Small brush, Size 1
• Usual drawing kit: small palette, #2 pencil, water container, eraser, blade, ruler, rags, etc.
• Saral transfer paper if you have it; otherwise just rub back of paper with pencil and use to transfer your design.

Workshop + Materials Fee: $175.00

Date & Time: Monday, March 16, 2015 | 9:30am-5:30pm

Location: 375 Rhode Island St, San Francisco, CA 94103

Note: Please read over the SFCB Registration Policies before signing up for a class

REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 3 DAYS PRIOR TO THE START DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP.

About the Instructor :: Ann Miller

ANN MILLER (Stanford University, AB, AM Art) studied painting and lithography with Richard Diebenkorn and Nathan Oliveira and has taught art and art history classes at Stanford, University of Santa Clara, San Mateo Community College district and in local guilds and arts venues. In 1979 she founded M2 Design for calligraphy and graphic design work. In 2002 she authored two courses in calligraphy and letterform at Academy of Art University and continues teaching online.

Her calligraphy has been published in Letter Arts Review and Bound & Lettered, and Alphabet, and her book titles for Protean Press can be found in the Harrison Collection at San Francisco Main Library. Her work is in public and private collections. She created of a series of large calligraphy murals for the City of Belmont's new public library and a 12-foot long family tree scroll for actress Brooke Shields for an early episode of the NBC television series “Who do you think you are?” Visit Ann at http://www.pennib.com.