My Favorite Tool and A Helpful Tip

By Dianne Wright My Favorite Tool: One tool that I use whenever I sit down to do a project is my Parallel Glider made by Alvin. It’s great for all kinds of projects including drawing guidelines and...

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My Favorite Tool

By Celeste Rossmiller At Sharon Zeugin’s “Illuminating the Dark” (Zoom) workshop in 2021, she suggested using a small-ish nib for our work, and led us through various alphabets and practices.  My first...

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My Fountain Pen Habit

By Tess Vonfeldt-Gross Who would’ve thought that a severely broken right wrist (belonging to a right-hander) would, only a few months later, lead to a love of fountain pens and fountain pen inks, and...

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Roman Holiday Conference 2024 Review

By Leslie Barstad Attending the Roman Holiday Calligraphy Conference was one of the highlights of the year! It was an amazing week! My husband and I both attended; we each took two 1/2-week classes....

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Supplies

Basic Supply List for Workshops Slant Board Paper (good, practice & tracing) Pens, nibs, holders (whatever you are comfortable with) Ink, and a way to anchor the bottle Gouache or other color...

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Guild Archives

The guild archives are housed at Regis University’s Dayton Library located at 50th and Lowell in north Denver.  To see a list of holdings, go the Regis Library website  http://lumen.regis.edu/ select...

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James Hayes Exhibit

James Hayes was instrumental in the founding and nurture of the Colorado Calligraphers’ Guild. Examples of his work and the materials he used are now on exhibit at the Colorado School of Mines....

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Guild logo by Sandy Marvin