Let’s Get Fancy!

Want to amplify and expand your pointed pen flourishing?

Build your current calligraphic repertoire by learning the detailed principles and structure of successfully fancy flourished script capital letters, in-depth techniques and alternate stroke combinations…all while creating your own style! 

With exercises to loosen your hand and challenge your brain, we’ll start with basic strokes that gradually increase in intricacy and difficulty. Kathy will lead you through her personal step-by-step guided process, approaching design as a fun puzzle to be solved.

We’ll play with capital stem extensions, loops, ovals, intricate spirals, graceful direction changes, unusual shapes, tricky intersections and turned exits. Close attention will be paid to balance, impact and managing visual space. The result is super-flourished caps with STYLE! 

As a final project, we’ll each create our own unique alphabet sampler based on what we’ve learned! 

Come and play with swirls and curls and let’s have FUN!

LEVEL: Intermediate & Advanced Calligraphers - You need to know at least one pointed pen style (classic or modern) to benefit from this class.

*Please note: This is a design class, not a letterforms class.

What You'll Learn

• Relaxing and Syncing exercises
• How to loosen your grip and free your mind
• Anatomy of the Super flourish
• Planning and sketching your letter
• Critical thinking and analysis
• Creating graceful curves and flourishes
• Flourishing options through draft work
• Creating balance, movement, and symmetry
• Switching direction and intersecting strokes
• Planning your composition layout  
• Analyzing and adjusting your work
• Transferring your design to art paper
• Adding visual interest and pizzaz!
• Finding your personal design style
• Managing negative space  
• Unique and challenging letters
• Building a flourishing repertoire

What You'll Receive

Besides your unique handout package, you will receive bonus material, along with fun tricks and tips from “The mind of Milici” along the way! 

Please note: This is a design class, not a letterforms class. Basic knowledge of any pointed pen script style (modern or classic) is necessary to fully benefit from this workshop

ZOOM Class Schedule

2 Sessions per day: June 6 & 13, 2024

Time: 10:30am-12:30pm, (break), then 2-4pm US Eastern time

Level: Intermediate

Cost: $195 USD

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Supplies 

Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email and can login to the Student Portal to find the supplies list in the Welcome Module.

Class Recordings

We will post links to the class recordings and teacher demo sheets in the student portal the day after class. The recordings will be available until October 21, 2024.

Refund Policy

All sales are final. Fees paid for this online workshop are non-refundable and non-transferable to future workshops.

About Your Instructor, Kathy Milici

Kathy is an internationally known calligrapher, designer, teacher, speaker, author and mentor, who happily admits to being obsessed with letters since childhood. With a studio located in northern New Jersey, her work has been featured in books, design blogs, national magazines and on television. Kathy's clients include private individuals, collectors and corporations, worldwide.

Kathy Milici has been an instructor for the Society of Scribes in New York City, a popular instructor at national and international calligraphy conferences, including IAMPETH, Letters California Style, and for the Sacred Arts Program at Enders Island in Mystic, CT. She teaches both small group classes and privately in NJ, and travels the country, promoting, lecturing and teaching calligraphy and the related arts.

The originator of the #1 best-selling font Gratitude Script, a modern typeface, Kathy also enjoys mentoring fellow artists and students on how to create a living and maintain a viable business as a working artist.

With a reputation for consistent excellence, a joyful heart, and a fun, encouraging teaching style, Kathy is honored to be a professional calligrapher and teacher for over 40 years. She feels privileged to have studied under some of the best known and well-respected Master Penmen of the world, including White House calligraphers. Her teachers have included Sheila and Julian Waters, Valerie Weilmunster, and IAMPETH Master Penmen Pat Blair, Michael Sull, John DeCollibus, Harvest Crittenden, Jake Weidmann, and Rosemary Buczek.

After all these years, Kathy is still enjoying her lifelong passion for “everything calligraphy.”

About Your Tech Host, Maureen Vickery

Maureen Vickery is a professional calligrapher and engraver with PenDance Studio in Houston, Texas. She also is the former publisher and editor of Calligraphy Crush Magazine.

Her specialties include wedding calligraphy and luxury brand events and activations. She works in both historic and modern calligraphy styles. Her main focus is pointed pen lettering, but she also enjoys creating compositions with broad edge pens, markers, and paint brushes.

Maureen's work has appeared in Dasherie, UPPERCASE, Expression, Letter Arts Review, Modern Luxury Weddings Houston, and Weddings in Houston magazines, as well as Kitty Burns Florey's book Script & Scribble. She is a member of the Houston Calligraphy Guild, the Society of Scribes, and IAMPETH.

You can find her wedding calligraphy on Instagram at @pendancestudio. Brand activations and calligraphy clients include Creed, Coty, Tiffany & Co., The Menil Collection, Burberry, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, and Saks Fifth Avenue.

Calligraphy and art classes are her favorite way to re-energize. Other interests include Keto recipes, gardening, Zentangle® (she’s a CZT), urban sketching, genealogy (she’s a descendant of 11 Mayflower passengers), watercolor illustrations, doubles tennis, and lemon bar cookies — not necessarily in that order.