Tutor: Maisie Minett

Five week course starting on Thursday 13th March until 10th April.

Explore the art of watercolour calligraphy, combining two creative forms of expression. The course starts with the basics—learning brush techniques, understanding watercolour flow, and practising various calligraphy styles.

As you progress, you’ll learn how to blend vibrant colours with elegant calligraphy strokes, creating letters that stand out. This course goes beyond technique, encouraging creativity and self-expression.

You’ll explore different ways to add colour to your brush lettering, including blending, ombré effects, varying transparency, creating delicate floral decorations to add to your work and turn those into borders—all using a simple paintbrush.

Week 1 The Foundations of Brush Calligraphy and controlling the brush. An introduction to creating letters with a water brush and paintbrush. How hard to press and where to change the pressure.

Week 2 Understanding alphabets and how to alter the style of your lettering.

Week 3 Mixing your colours, colour terms, experiments and using colour effectively.

Week 4 Create beautiful loose watercolour florals to decorate your work. Combining calligraphy and Illustration. Creating borders and decorations.

Week 5 Constructing a Wreath and composing a finished piece, sketches and stages of a design.

Ticket Options:

You can purchase this course with the full kit or if you have the items listed below, you can purchase the No Kit ticket.

Your full kit ticket will include a Van Gogh watercolour palette of 15 pans, a water-brush, a pipette, 2 watercolour paintbrushes, Goldline watercolour paper and Langton Prestige watercolour paper along with the worksheets.

If you select No Kit option, we will email you the watercolour worksheets to print.

Payment Option

There is now the option to split your payment into 3 monthly instalments by using Clearpay at the checkout.

Postage

Included within this ticket price is postage to the UK mainland only, no Islands or Highlands. For other UK and international locations, please email Nadine at enquiries@themoderncalligraphyco.com with your name, address, and the workshop/course title and date you would like to attend and she will be able to let you know the additional postage charge and eta for your kit via Royal Mail.

PLEASE NOTE Once your kit has been posted, workshop tickets are not refundable. This does not affect your statutory rights.

System requirements

This workshop will be hosted via Zoom. Your Zoom invite will come with your booking email confirmation, and we'll send it to you in your reminder email 3 days before your workshop. Please check your Spam folder in case the emails end up in there.