Join Us! 
Tuesday, November 18th
9am PST/10am MST/11am CST/12pm EST

NOTE: The recording of this session will be posted within 48 hours of the live session.
Also NOTE: This mini-session is FREE to those in the Make It Your Lettering Year course.

Letter along with Mike!

Tools is the theme for the year, and the pointed brush is a great tool to explore both traditional and non-traditional lettering and has applications for both commercial and fine art. In this two-hour session, I will demonstrate how both synthetic and natural hair brushes can create diverse styles and weights. You can practice along with me as I write an alphabet and letter an envelope, name card, and broadside.

Brush aside the chores and join us for an enlightening couple hours.

Who this session is for:

Lettering artists, calligraphers, and designers who rely heavily on lettering in their work. You don't have to have a background in calligraphy, but it will help as Mike is an advanced instructor and will not be covering the basics.

What to Bring:

Your Favorite brush!

Not all of these are necessary, but they are some of the tools Mike will be using:

• Tombow, Hethrone, or comparable dual tip color brush pen will also work) - black and a few colors, if possible

• Pentel Color Brush Pen (Black ink, water based)

• Inexpensive Asian brush

• Paper: tracing paper, bristol paper, marker paper, Strathmore drawing paper, watercolor paper (whatever you have)

When You Sign Up, You’ll Receive:

• A welcome letter with your access link.
• 90-Day access to the recording.
• Bonus! Free lifetime access if you’re already enrolled in Make It Your Lettering Year. Not yet part of the course? A discounted invitation will be included in your welcome letter.

About Mike

Mike Gold worked as a commercial lettering designer for over 35 years, mostly in the social expressions business. But his real passion is exploring the corridors of calligraphy that have been less traveled, the path where words and letters are design elements with which to play with line, shape and form, where creating a visual statement is more important than writing a readable text. In both his professional and personal art, Mike breaks traditional rules to create contemporary, non-traditional work.

Mike has an M.A. in Visual Communications and has studied with many outstanding lettering and design masters over the years. Mike has taught around the country and at several international calligraphy conferences. His personal work has been featured in Letter Arts Review many times over the past 25-plus years. He has been a juror for the Letter Arts Review annual and his work is in many private collections, including the Berlin Calligraphy Archive. He is the author of Lines to Live By (available through John Neal, Bookseller), which is Mike's take on being a non-traditional calligrapher in the 21st century.

Questions?

Email: [email protected]