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B13. Spencerian for Beginners -- Book List
C13. Advanced Spencerian -- Book List
Recommended Resources for Both Classes:
PRACTICE PADS / COPY SHEETS FOR SPENCERIAN
These three contain more copies of sheets and additional material similar to the handouts Michael will supply for your use in the classes.. All are optional, but are highly recommended.
P34. Spencerian Practice Pads. $7.50 ea.
P33. Cross Drill Pad. $7.50
B2463. Spencerian Practice Sheets. $15.00
BOOK RESOURCES FOR SPENCERIAN. All recommended. All optional.
B1816. Learning to Write Spencerian Script by Michael Sull and Debra E. Rapp. $17.50.
DVD12. Learning to Write Spencerian Script - DVD by Michael Sull. $35.00.
B1137-2 Volume II of Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship by Michael R. Sull. List Price $29.99. JNB Price through 06-30-08 $ 24.95.
B368. Ames Compendium by Daniel T. Ames. 1883. Reprint 1978. $7.95.
B2470. An Elegant Hand: The Golden Age of American Penmanship and Calligraphy by William E. Henning. Edited by Paul Melzer. $59.95. JNB $57.49.
B2476. FW Tamblyn's Home Instructor in Penmanship. 2001. (Reprint of the 7th ed. 1938). $24.95.
Michael is not teaching Off-Hand Flourishing at Letters Mingle Souls, however, these are the resources he recommends when he teaches that class/workshop:
B152. Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy by E.A. Lupfer. $9.95.
DVD23. Off-Hand Flourishing DVD. Flourishing Techniques for Ornamental Penmanship by Michael Sull. 106 Minutes. Color. $40.00.
B14. Spencerian Script for Beginners -- Supplies
NEED TO BRING: One bottle McCaffery's Penman's Ink; lined
paper tablet (not recycled!); one quality oblique penholder; at least
6 of any of the following pen points: Nikko "G," Gillott #303, Hunt
#22; white ink (e.g., Dr. Martin's Bleed-Proof White or McCaffery's
Ivory ink); #1 or #2 artists brush (synthetic or sable); 12" straight
edge; paper and pen to take notes.
C13. Advanced Spencerian Script -- Supplies
NEED TO BRING: All of the above; red, blue and green colored
pencil; 9" x 12" pad of tracing paper; gouache (2 colors—student's
choice); 3 sheets of 9" x 12" smooth dark paper; drafting tape;
pencil eraser; 9" x 12" tablet graph paper (1/8" or 1/4" grid).
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P34. Spencerian Practice Pad
Michael Sull's Spencerian Guidesheet Practice Tablet
Specially designed guidesheets for writing Spencerian Script. Excellent for practice work. Features the correct slant lines (for the proper letter-angle slant) and lines for the lowercase letter body heights (x-height) and for ascenders (such as l & k) and descenders (such as j & y) . There are two different pads with different x-heights so you can practice larger and smaller writing. (Beginners start with larger writing.) Includes 4 pages of instruction. 8.5"x11". 3-hole punched. Approx. 50 sheets. 4 page instruction sheet. Specify Large or Small x-heights.
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P33. Cross Drill Pad (Spencerian)
Michael Sull's Cross Drill Exercise Tablet
One of the keys to mastering Spencerian is perfecting the
rhythm and spacing between letters. This pad provides a
series of spacing exercises. 50 sheet pad. Includes
instruction.
In learning Spencerian Script, the skill of achieving consistant letter-spacing is as important as properly writing the letters. the traditional method of of practicing letter-spacing was through cross-drill exercises. This pad, designed by Michael Sull, consists of 50 sheets of a special cross-drill practice exercise. Included are thorough instrutions. The tablet should be used for regular practice, one sheet per session.
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B2463. Spencerian Practice Pack/Sull
Michael Sull's Spencerian Practice Set
The traditional method for students to learn Spencerian Script was known as the copybook format, where a model line of Spencerian penmanship was printed at the top of a sheet with blank lines underneath for the student to practice her/his own writing.
In this set by Michael Sull, the 29 printed sheets feature 100 model lines of penmanship encompassing the lowercase letters, capitals, words, sentences, and over 700 blank lines for your writing. The set also includes 5 blank practice sheets each for two sizes of script (10 total), with instructions.
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B1816. Learning to Write Spencerian/Sull
Learning to Write Spencerian Script
By Michael Sull & Debra Rapp. 1993. 75pp. 6.75" x 8.5". Paper.
An instructional manual for Spencerian covering equipment
and tools, practice, and extensive instruction on the individual letters. This book gives the main instructional material from Volume I of Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship, which is no longer available.
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DVD12. Learning to Write Spencerian Script DVD
Learning to Write Spencerian Script
By Michael Sull. DVD.
A 60 minute instructional video by the author of the
comprehensive text of the same title. First he gives a brief history of the hand and then gives letter by letter instruction.
All our DVD’s are made to run on USA and Canada machines. If you live outside North America, you should check with the manual for your machine to see if it can play NTSC format DVD’s. If your DVD player can’t play our DVD’s, your computer may be able to.
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B1137-2. Vol II of Spencerian Script &.../Sull
Volume II of Spencerian Script and Ornamental Penmanship
By Michael R. Sull. 1989. 8.5"x11". Paper. Spiral bound. Retail Price $29.95.
It contains the penmanship of Platt Rogers Spencer, and features over 1,000 reproductions of ornamental alphabets, correspondence writing, signature designs, novelty styles, and off-hand flourishing as penned by the great master penman. Volume I is no longer available.
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B368. Ames Compendium of Practical.../Ames
Ames Compendium of Practical & Ornamental Penmanship By Daniel T.Ames. 1883. Reprint 1978. 60pp. 8.5"x11". Paper.
Eight pages of good instruction on writing and letterforms
(Spencerian & copperplate) are followed by examples and alphabets. Flourishing (birds, feathers, etc.) is next followed by pages of 19th century ornamental lettering of all sorts. If you are interested in pointed pen writing, this book is a must buy.
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B2470. Elegant Hand/Henning
An Elegant Hand: The Golden Age of American Penmanship and Calligraphy
By William E.Henning. Edited by Paul Melzer. 2002. 320pp. 8-1/2"x11". Hardcover. Retail Price $59.95.
Chronicles the history of the Golden Age of American penmanship, guiding the reader through the lives and careers of important American penmen beginning with Platt Rogers, Spencer, the Father of American Handwriting and Spencer’s gifted student, George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals reached the hundreds of thousands of
students throughout the second half of the 1800s.
Illustrated with more than 400 examples, most from
original specimens.
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B2476. FW Tamblyn's Home Instructor Penmanship
FW Tamblyns’s Home Instructor in Penmanship
F.W. Tamblyn. 2001. (Reprint of the 7th ed, 1938). 174pp. 8.5"x5.25". Spiral.
80 pages of instruction on basic script starting with holding the pen and positioning the paper, followed by pages of exercises, letterforms, words, and sentences to copy. Then 33 pages on Artistic Writing (Spencerian) -- instruction on adding the stresses to capitals and appropriate lowercase letters. Smaller sections on Engravers Script, broadedged
alphabets, off hand flourishing, engrossing and diplomas. A great reprint. A highly recommended manual.
The current printing has a lighter cover.
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B152. Ornate Pictorial Calligraph/Lupfer
Ornate Pictorial Calligraphy
By E.A. Lupfer. 78pp. 8"x11". Paper.
Instructions and examples of pictorial flourishes: Quills, birds, swans, etc.
Price increase by publisher May 2008.
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