Online Class: Western Calligraphy

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16

Lessons
43

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15

Hours
average time
1.5

CEUs
682

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Course Description

Western calligraphy is a great personal hobby. Calligraphy gives you the capability to personalize many items and gifts.

This Western Calligraphy course teaches you how to create beautiful calligraphy--even if you have no artistic experience. This course provides you with the expert guidance, HD Video tutorials, step-by-step directions, and hands-on activities with feedback so you can learn how to create a wide variety of calligraphy to suit any need or occasion. Each letter is broken down into easy-to-learn parts, until the complete letter is mastered.

You do not need drawing experience to do this course. Young and old can learn calligraphy. Once you learn beautiful calligraphy, you will be ready to share your creativity with the world through gifts, bazaars, craft shops, craft shows, home decor, trade shows, and more. You will be able to use your new-found calligraphy skills to draw amazing letters on cards, stationary, bags, memory pages in your scrapbooks, photo albums covers, clothing, walls, wood, frames, lunch bags, and many other surfaces.

Today is the day for you to jump in and learn a new hobby that will enrich your life. Learning at home and at your own pace is what this course is all about. And best of all, Nancy is there for you everyday! So let's get started!

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Course Lessons

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Lesson 1: History of Calligraphy

Calligraphy is the art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush. 115 Total Points

Lesson 1 Video
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Lesson 2: Materials and Supplies

Let's take a look at how writing and writing instruments evolved over time, beginning with the cave men and their chiseled stones, to the calligraphy pen we know today. 120 Total Points

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Lesson 3: Getting Started

It is important to remember to pull the pen and not push it. 30 Total Points

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Lesson 4: Uncial Calligraphy

There are many varieties and ways of doing calligraphy. 30 Total Points

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Lesson 5: Foundational Hand Calligraphy

Sometimes calligraphy fonts can be so fancy, they are difficult to read. But foundational is clear and precise. 50 Total Points

Lesson 5 Video
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Lesson 6: Roman Rustic Calligraphy

Roman Rustic capitals is an ancient Roman calligraphic script. 30 Total Points

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Lesson 7: Versals Calligraphy

Versals lettering is a serif style, which means it has detailed flemishes on the capital letters and "feet" -- or what we call slab serifs -- on the base of letterforms. 30 Total Points

Lesson 7 Video
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Lesson 8: Batarde Calligraphy

Batarde was a Gothic script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands, and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 9: Italic Calligraphy

Italic script is one of the most popular styles used in contemporary Western calligraphy, and is often one of the first scripts learned by beginning calligraphers. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 10: Copperplate Calligraphy

Copperplate is a style of calligraphic writing that uses a pointed steel nib or quill to produce a style of lettering characterized by both thick and thin strokes. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 11: Gothic Calligraphy

Gothic can be simple or quite elaborate. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 12: More and More Calligraphy

In this lesson, you will learn how to write a paragraph. 30 Total Points

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Lesson 13: Beyond the Alphabet and Chinese Calligraphy

In this lesson, you will learn how to use your pen to draw animals and things in nature. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 14: Flourishes and Decoratives

There is nothing more enjoyable than opening a card or invitation that has been handwritten with calligraphic letters and beautiful flourishes. 50 Total Points

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Lesson 15: Final Fonts and Calligraphy From Around the World

In this lesson, we will touch on some other forms of calligraphy from a few more countries. 30 Total Points

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Lesson 16: Onward and Upward

There are hundreds of ways to use calligraphy, and here are some other ideas. 94 Total Points

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859

Total Course Points

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