The Poetry of Lettering & Layout with Phawnda Moore – Sat & Sun Nov 8 - 9

Dates: Sat & Sun Nov 8 - 9
Times: 9:30 - 4 w/ 1 hour lunch
Level: All
Membership Price: $320 (Members use code MEMBERS10 at checkout to receive 10% discount)

Workshop Description:  Phawnda's lettering and design classes encourage personal style and are interactive and fun. You’ll learn professional techniques and make meaningful projects and gifts. All levels welcome, including no previous lettering experience.
In this workshop you’ll meet a few legendary French painters and learn what guided them to create masterpieces. In modern lettering, these Impressionists inspire us to find shapes, colors and lines that express personal style and freedom in lettering, layout, and design.

There will be live demos and time to create. We'll work with several quotes in both watercolor, brush lettering and graphite. On the last afternoon, choose your favorite pages to make a keepsake project for all your tomorrows. Become the brush. Breathe. Listen to your heart. The Mendocino coast will reveal its eternal mysteries in our time together.

About the Instructor:  
Phawnda has taught calligraphy since the 1990s in California, including at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Sierra College Community Education, Rocklin; Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino; Haggin Art Museum, Stockton; and Letters California Style mini classes, Orange, CA. She graduated from the design program at UCDavis in '92 and studied with the world’s best lettering artists. A former graphic designer, Phawnda served as the editor and designer at California state and county offices of education in communications. In 2025, her mixed media calligraphy piece, “Life, Liberty and Freedom," was accepted in Blue Line Arts Membership Medley Exhibition (this summer). In 2023, her quadriptych entry (of 4), “Apple Tree Seasons,” was accepted in the juried California State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition and was purchased. Phawnda's a 2021 award-winning Indie author for "Lettering from A to Z." Her art and articles have been published in professional guilds: Scripsit, Letter Arts Review, Bound & Lettered, Paper&InkArts, Washington Calligraphers Guild Bulletin as well as Mendocino Arts.

To see Phawnda's recent work, please visit Instagram: @phawnda.moore and Facebook:www.facebook.com/CalligraphyAndDesignByPhawnda

Materials Fee: $20 materials fee to be paid to the instructor on the first day of class.  Cash or check would be appreciated.

Materials fee will provide a kit of assorted quality watercolor and drawing papers and a brush marker.

Required Materials:

Mechanical pencil I recommend Sakura SumoGrip, Amazon OR an HB pencil and sharpener.
https://www.amazon.com/Sakura-50282-SumoGrip-0-5-mm-Pencil/dp/B00260UDIG/ref=sr_

Set of colored pencils if you have them

Tombow Zero Mono eraser (either round OR square, your preference)
https://www.amazon.com/Tombow-57315-Eraser-Refill-Precision/dp/B00O98USLU/ref=sr_1_1?

Set of Pentel Aquashbrushes, amazonhttps://www.amazon.com/Pentel-Japan-Aquash-Water-Brush-types/dp/B079J2R4MP/

(OR)

1 or 2 (sizes 2, 4 or 6) pointed watercolor brush, Winsor&Newton or Silver Black Velvet, etc.
tube/pan watercolor: 6+ colors in both warm/cool shades, Winsor&Newton, Koi, Prang, etc.

A palette 6 - 8" or so with at least 3 sections

Zig Millenium or similar micron pens, black, 03, 05, 08 (various avail. on Amazon)
water container, divided sections if possible

Canson graph and layout paper 8 sq. to inch, 8.5x11” pad
https://www.amazon.com/Canson-Foundation-Layout-Reproducible-Sheets/dp/B00RO5HTJ4/ref=sr

Canson XL watercolor paper 9x12 pad, cold press
https://www.amazon.com/Canson-Watercolor-Textured-Charcoal-100510941/dp/B004M59O4C/

Paper towels, VIVA preferred

Scissors

12" T-square OR a triangle, frog tape

Double-sided tape OR Yamato glue stick

Grey kneaded eraser

Optional Materials: 

A light pad if you have one. I recommend ArtOGraph 930, 9x12 (Amazon) but less expensive models would also work. (check Best Seller list and go w/your preferences, cord/battery, etc). I’ll bring a loaner as well.