Sue Greenseth - Tune Up Your Italic - Oct 11, 18, & 25, 2025
No matter how many years you’ve practiced Italic, it never hurts to brush up your skills! Italic can be tiny or large, italicized or upright, made with a broad-edge pen or a monoline tool. In th…
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No matter how many years you’ve practiced Italic, it never hurts to brush up your skills! Italic can be tiny or large, italicized or upright, made with a broad-edge pen or a monoline tool. In this workshop we’ll cover the basics – proportion, pen angle, slope, stroke sequence, and spacing. We’ll review the minuscules as well as the majuscules, and discuss flourishing.
Tune Up Your Italic
Sue Greenseth, Hosted By The Gentle Penman
Live (Also recorded for later viewing)
Oct 11, 18, & 25, 2025
23:00 pm – 01:00 am (Hong Kong Time)
Class Cost : HKD 1000.00 or USD 130.00
Registration Link : https://www.thegentlepenman.com/tune-up-your-italic
Supply List:
- Capitol Bond 25% cotton practice pad 8.5 x 11-inch (John Neal Booksellers) or a favorite non-bleed practice paper
- Walnut ink, or other semi-translucent ink (we want to see our strokes!)
- Nib holder
- 3 mm nib – of these listed, choose which you are most comfortable with > Speedball C-2 > Mitchell Roundhand size 3 > Brause size 3 > 3 mm Pilot Parallel pen (pink cap)
- Pencil and eraser
Highly recommended but not required: Mitchell Roundhand size 5 nib