Heather Held - The Victorian Pen - Aug 12 & 19

The Victorian Pen workshop combines historic offhand flourishing subjects along with my signature line and wash technique. The workshop was created to help students enhance their flourishing skills. Students will be guided through pen drawn flourishes that have been influenced by the colours and styles of the Victorian era. Many of the historic offhand flourishing designs start out as pencil sketches before rendering the designs in ink. The Victorian Pen workshop introduces pencil techniques for the terrified! Even if you think you cannot draw, this class will help you add simple floral designs, birds, ribbons, and ornamental vines to your offhand flourishing. The use of the pencil allows preplanning and corrections which are not possible with true offhand flourishing. We start simply with corner ornaments and expand to more intricate designs. These decorative ornaments can be gilded with 23K gold leaf and painted with watercolour or tinted gently with coloured pencil. This class assumes some knowledge of the pointed pen and will help to advance your appreciation of the world of offhand flourishing. You will understand how to create abundantly graceful designs with a hint of nostalgia. There are countless possibilities to explore. Bring a joyful sense of play with you to class!

The Victorian Pen
Heather Held, Hosted By The Gentle Penman

Live (Also recorded for later viewing)

August 12 & 19 (Saturday)

08:00 am – 10:30 am (Hong Kong Time)

Class Cost : HK $ 740.00 or USD 95.00

All Skills Levels

Registration Link : https://www.thegentlepenman.com/the-victorian-pen

Supply List:

• Mechanical Pencil (any size lead) (PL21), 3B Pencil (PL38), White Vinyl (E13) or Kneaded Eraser (E09)

• Ruler (cork back ruler preferred) (S270, S271)

• Graph Paper such as Maruman Imagination (P64, P22, P56)

• Tracing Paper (1 or 2 sheets) (P112)

• Scotch Brand Removable Tape (S699)

• Straight holder (H113, H122, H133) with medium flexible nib such as the Zebra G (N118) or Hunt 22 (N93)

• Cream Cardstock or Strathmore 400 series Drawing paper cut to 5”x 7” (a few sheets) (P300, P100, P111)

• 1 or 2 sheets of Hot Press Watercolour paper cut to 5x7” (P67, P134)

• McCaffery Brown Ink, McCaffery Black Ink (I37) or Ziller Buffalo Brown Ink (I28)

• Coloured Pencils: any brand. You should have a cream, a white, a brown and your favourite colours (PL2031, PL28, PL05)

• Watercolour Pencils or Watercolours: any brand in your favourite flower and foliage colours (PL58, S2013, S1000, S3041)

• Small pointed watercolour brushes any brand in size 0 and 1. Heather uses Winsor Newton Series 7 sable, but you may

substitute synthetic brushes if they have a good point (BR28, BR49, BR104)

• Water Dish, Paper towel, small mixing palette (a white ceramic plate works well) (S747, S1094) 

• Finetec Gold Watercolour (S1000) or Gold Gouache (HG749, WNG3) with water dish and mixing brush

Optional Gold

• 23K Gold leaf and gold size with gilding brush

(S189-5, S189, S983, BR26). You can substitute gold ink or gold gouache if you do not want to use real gold

leaf

Optional Embellishment Supplies

• Green and Blue chalk pastel (PL2030) with q-tip or pastel brush, Sakura Clear Stardust Gelly Roll Pen (M96-2), Swarovski Crystals with Gem Tac

• Glue adhesive