Maryanne Grebenstein - Online Classes

This is a great class for anyone interested in learning more about creating an interesting layout for their calligraphy. We'll work on utilizing multiple lettering styles and sizes, incorporating color and/or gold and work on inviting the reader into...

If you want to capture someone’s attention, go for the gold! This fun workshop will explore using gold for all the text of a piece. We’ll work with gold paint, metallic ink, and experiment with gold leaf using both gesso and miniatum. In...

Adding color to your calligraphy project adds interest and can help send a visual message about the text you are lettering. Color ink doesn’t give the look or permanence we need. Gouache is the way to go! In this workshop we’ll work with...

Everyone should keep and use (frequently!) a sketchbook. In this class, we’ll start with a few sketching exercises using medieval decorated letters as the subject matter, then move on to drawing and painting our own Versal and Lombardic capital...

In 1525 Albrecht Dürer created an instructional manual on how to create Roman Capital Letters. His book remains in publication today and that’s what we will use to learn about spatial relationships of letters, and how to perfectly draw...

You have a quotation or poem you want to letter out, but what can you do besides write out the text in a series of lines? This workshop can help! Working extensively with tracing vellum and pencil, we’ll experiment with creating thumbnail...

Creating beautiful calligraphy requires much more than beautiful pen work. Learning to use a T-square for lining up your work, fine-tuning your lettering by practicing with a pencil, and understanding different pencil types and lead hardnesses to...

Round and bold and closely associated with the Celtic culture, Uncial, the style of lettering used in the Book of Kells, will be the topic of this workshop. Using the flat pen angle and sharp serifs typical of this hand, participants will perfect...

Copperplate, the beautiful script style that is the predecessor of modern handwriting, is formal and elegant and perfect for many applications today. Working with a flexible, pointed, dip-pen and ink, participants will learn how to create the...

Starting with detailed instruction and hands-on exercises to learn about the broad-edged pen, based on Edward Johnston’s “Seven Constant Features,” we will begin our deep dive into the Italic hand. We’ll use the double-pencil...