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DVD41. Drawing & Painting the Acanthus Leaf

Drawing and Painting the Acanthus Leaf DVD. Rosemary Buczek. Approx 120 minutes

Covers the basics elements of drawing and painting the Acanthus Leaf. In three segments, Rosemary approaches a basic level for beginners, an intermediate level, and an advanced level of drawing and painting this leaf. Additionally, she includes a set of patterns for you to download. Rosemary Buczek has taught illumination at both the summer calligraphy conference and the IAMPETH convention.

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DVD33. Hand Lettering on Fabric DVD Engelbrecht

Hand Lettering on Fabric: Bali Lantern Workshop. Lisa Engelbrecht. 2008. 124 min.

After an introduction to calligraphy techniques, Lisa demonstrates the important points to successful decorative writing on fabric with pen & brush. For a variety of fabrics, she shares tips on how to stain and seal, to create decorative washes, and add special effects with a variety of "inks." Lisa then creates a rich background for her hand lettering, using a few simple materials. She presents her
signature funky lettering as well as more traditional forms.
Using the techniques presented in the video, you then apply them to the construction of a collapsible Bali lantern.


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DVD14. Gilding for Calligraphers DVD

Gilding for Calligraphers.
By Sally Mae Joseph (Sally Teague), one of the scribes working on the St. John's Bible.

Selecting and preparing vellum, slaking plaster and making gesso, gilding using loose leaf gold, preparing gum ammoniac and gilding with transfer gold, painting with shell gold and color. 130 minutes.

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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DVD36. Visual Harmony with Tom Waits

Visual Harmony. DVD.

Glen Epstein’s popular multi-media presentation of three of his hand lettered and illustrated
books: Tom Traubert’s Blues, New Orleans and Pasties is now available on DVD. The presentation has had rave reviews at several summer conferences.You can preview the videos at youtube.com by searching glen epstein under videos (not channels). The small youtube screen is a poor substitute for the DVD! $25.00 through 12-31-08

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DVD16. Modern Gilding for Calligraphers DVD

Modern Gilding for Calligraphers.
By Sally Mae Joseph (Sally Teague), one of the scribes working on the St. John's Bible.

Curing and cutting quills; using quills and metal pens on paper and vellum; writing with gesso; using brushes on fabric; combining traditional and modern sizes; and laying looseleaf, transfer, shell gold, and platinum on vellum, paper & fabric. 70 minutes.

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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DVD30. Illuminator (St John's DVD)

The Illuminator and the Bible for the 21st Century.

The documentary of the making of the Saint John’s Bible is now available on DVD (DVD30) and VHS (V30). Donald Jackson and his staff used traditional calligraphic techniques with some modern twists in creating this 20th-21st century manuscript Bible. Ground pigments, egg yolks, gold, silver, and platinum are used in the illuminations. Goose quills and antique stick ink for the text. 49 minutes.

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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DVD29. Italic with Flourish DVD

Italic with a Flourish
By Margaret Daubney. DVD 52 minutes.

Using clear demonstrations, explains the features of a formal italic hand, guides you through the letterforms and shows you how to develop and use your skills. Includes plenty of technical advice. Daubney was a tutor at Roehampton.

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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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DVD23. Off Hand Flourishing DVD

Off-Hand DVD: Flourishing Techniques for Ornamental
Penmanship by Michael Sull. 106 Minutes. Color.

Covers basic tools and materials: pen points, oblique
holders, papers. Continues with preparing and using colored
and gold inks including mixing a sepia ink from vermillion
sumi & Higgins Eternal, using Dr.Martin’s Bleedproof White & Schmincke metallic gouaches. Begins with the primary flourishing strokes. Presents the basic steps for cartouches, scrolls, border designs, quills, birds, title flourishing, accent flourishes, and creative patterns. Finishes with a selection of over 50 different historical designs by a range of master penmen. It’s the closest thing to having Michael in the
room teaching you!

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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V31. Great Book of Gaelic VHS

Great Book of Gaelic Video I Am the Tongue : Is Mise an Teanga.
84 min. VHS $19.95 SALE

This documentary is about Gaelic (both Irish and Scottish), its contemporary poets and their encounters with 100 visual artists in The Great Book of Gaelic.

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