WORKSHOPS AND ADULT EDUCATION CLASSES

Veiko Kespersaks is a fully qualified calligraphy teacher with both a BA and MA in Calligraphy from Roehampton University. Since 1993 he has both devised and taught the short and long term courses in calligraphy at the Satakunta University of Applied Sciences in Finland, where he has also pioneered calligraphy distance learning programmes. Since 2002 he has also been teaching calligraphy workshops in the UK including tutoring at the CLAS Summer Festival 2005.

Short and long term workshops
The content of workshops can vary from working with specific historic alphabets, modern calligraphy and layout design or craft techniques. There, courses are supported by demonstrations, discussions, lectures and individual tuition to students of all levels. The emphasis has always been on encouraging students to understand the history, concepts and principles of craftsmanship.

Teaching programs can be devised for one to six day workshops or for longer extended studies lasting from three months to up to five years.

Workshops

Beginners’ classes:
The calligrapher's tools, materials and equipment
Inks, paints and pigments
Calligraphy papers (structure, qualitative assessment, surface)
Pictographic signs and symbols

History topics:
Greek writing
Roman capitals
Skeleton roman letters
Slanted - pen capitals
Square capitals
Rustic capitals
Roman cursive hand
Versal capitals
Compound Roman capitals
Finely drawn Roman capitals
Winchester Bible capitals
Capital letters during the Renaissance
Bartolomeo San Vito's capitals
Italic Flourishes capital letters
Roman uncial
Half-uncial
Irish half-uncial

Caroline minuscule
English Carolingian minuscules (Foundational hand)
Slanted-pen Minuscules
Humanist Hand
Gothic Textura (Quadrata)
Fraktura
Schwabacher
Rotunda
Gothic cursive (Bastarda)
Cancellaresca Formata (Corsiva)
Sloped Roman Minuscles Pandolfo Collenuccio,
Bembo's, Italic
Italic (traditional)
Italic letters during the Renaissance
Modern Italic
Italic Flourishes
Copperplate hand
Renaissance writing styles
English round hand
Contemporary cursive styles
Handwriting for calligraphy
Numbers: styles and history

Modern calligraphy:
Flat brush letters
Point brush letters
Chinese brush designed letters
Modern brush letters
Automatic pen
Ruling pen letters
Free pen (natural resources)
Lettering designs using music or patterns
Dancing capital letters
Compressed drawing capitals with flexible pen
Drawn and designed letters
Different pen weight letters
Abstract calligraphy line with concept

Craft techniques:
Reed and Quill pen
Vellum and Parchment
Modern gilding
Historical gilding
Gesso gilding
Experimental gilding
Letters decoration
Illumination Miniature painting
Indian Miniature painting
Miniature brush making
Paper making
Book binding techniques for calligraphers
Japanese bookbinding

Something different with letters:
Creation of Fonts for printing
Discovering your own way of writing
Calligraphic handwriting
Calligraphy therapy
Writing is dead, so now what?
White to white or Black to black
Teamwork designer (content retrieval)
Lay-out design, broadsheets
Calligraphy postcards
Traditional formal panels at different levels

Specially designed courses or lectures

Please contact me if you would like to discuss any aspect of teaching or any other topics of interest to you or your group.

If you choose one of the topics I can send a special leaflet with course title, descriptions and materials supply list.