Lettercarving Intensive Workhop–the first I have offered!

Dear Lovers of Letters:

After 16 years of carving letters in wood, I am finally offering my first lettercarving workshop, in the lovely Sol Creative Foundry barn in Dry Drayton, just outside Cambridge, from June 15-19.

As even the basics involve a lot of learning and practice, I’m doing it as a one-week intensive, with instruction in the mornings and supervised practice in the afternoons.

Information about cost and registration will be added over the next couple of days. For now, here’s the official flier text:

This Lettercarving Intensive Workshop will offer a comprehensive course for beginners that will encompass learning to select, prepare and understand wood, how to choose your carving tools and which to use for which purposes, painting, finishing, and displaying.

By the end of the week, you should have developed the drawing, carving, painting and finishing skills necessary to create a finished monogram or similar carving, roughly 20 cm by 20 cm.

Cost includes wood, sandpaper, paints, paintbrushes, and masks. A set of carving tools will be provided on loan, but may also be purchased.

Schedule

June 15-19

Three hours instruction per morning 9-12

Three hours supervised practice each afternoon 1-4

Limit: 8 participants

Tim Brookes is the founder of the Endangered Alphabets Project. His carvings, mostly of endangered minority writing, have been exhibited at, among other places, the Barbican Centre, the Bodleian Library, West Den Haag in the Netherlands, Mundolingua in Paris, and at Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Cambridge, the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.