Upcoming Meetings
This is a list of monthly meetings upcoming for the Huntington and Charleston Guilds. Members enjoy not only the practice and instruction, but also the opportunity to socialize with others of different levels of experience that also enjoy the art of calligraphy.
Huntington Calligraphers Guild
The Huntington Calligraphers Guild usually meets the third Friday of every month at The Huntington Museum of Art in Huntington, West Virginia on McCoy Road in Studio Two behind the facility. They meet at 6:30 PM.
This year for the page exchange we are going to 'Just Do It'. We will all be working with the option between 2 quotes and creating our page exchanges to fit into a 12" x 3" book that we created at our August'09 meeting. Our pages are to be no larger than 11x2
September 2009
Page Exchange quote:
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. ~ Albert Camus
September 2009
Versals
Do, or do not…there is no try. (Yoda)
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. (Confucius)
October 2009
Versals
The true poem rests between the words. (Vanna Botta)
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. (Stanley Horowitz)
November 2009
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. (Oscar Wilde)
Hem your blessings with thankfulness, so they don't unravel. (unknown)
December 2009
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. (Danny Kaye)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. (Albert Einstein)
January 2010
Write, and enjoy twice. (unknown)
One kind word can warm three winter months (Japanese proverb)
February 2010
Make me immortal with a kiss. (Christopher Marlowe)
There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again. (Elizabeth Lawrence)
March 2010
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. (Mark Twain)
Failure is impossible. (Susan B. Anthony)
April 2010
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. (Chinese proverb)
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)
May 2010
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran)
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? (Jack Scully)
June 2010
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. (Charlie Brown)
What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life. (Walt Whitman)
July 2010
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. (unknown)
A laugh is a smile that bursts. (Mary H. Waldrip)
August 2010
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso)
I've loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. (Galileo Galilei)
Charleston Calligraphers Guild
The Charleston Calligraphers Guild usually meets the second Saturday of each month at Rock Lake Presbyterian Church in South Charleston. They meet at 11 AM.
June 2009
Speedball B with Denise
July 2009
Versals with Jackie
August 2009
Flourishing with Mary Lou
September 2009
Copperplate with Mary Wagner
October 2009
Pointed Pen with Sarah Taylor
November 2009
Embossed Tags with Midge, Denise, & Terry