The Bridger Mountain Scribes of Montana comprises calligraphers in southwest Montana, including Bozeman and Gallatin Gateway. We meet once a month to discuss calligraphy, artists books, and other book arts, usually on the 2nd Monday of the month at the Bozeman Public Library.
We are a member guild of the statewide Montana guild, Big Sky Scribes. If you’d like to find out more about calligraphy in southwest Montana, attend our meetings, or join the guild, email scribe@bridgermountainscribes.org.
The October meeting of Bridger Mountain Scribes will be held on Monday, October 14, 2019 from 11 AM to 1 PM at the library in the small conference room. Thank you, Rose, for making the room reservation.
Many thanks to Barb who led the September workshop! Barb guided us in arranging our simple short lettered pieces in collage with decorative papers to make a little composition on cards or small broadsides. Look what we made!
Look what we made:
At the October meeting, Diana will share some newly acquired knowledge from the fall workshop.
Everyone should bring their year-long project in whatever stage it’s in. As always, bring whatever else you’ve been working on.
The September meeting of Bridger Mountain Scribes will be held on Monday, September 9, 2019 from 11 AM to 1 PM at the library in the small conference room.
Thank you, Rose, for reserving the room for our next two meetings. Mark your calendar: We will meet from 11 AM to 1 PM on Monday, September 9, and also on Monday, October 14.
There were ten of us who attended our August meeting! The topic for the meeting was glair. We mixed up our paint — tubes of watercolor or gouaches — and laid down a few washes on the left side of our paper, then added a drop or two of glair to our paints and laid down a few more washes on the right side of the paper. While our papers were drying, I donned my Home Economics cap and demonstrated how to make glair.
A couple of us shared our year-long project, and we discussed some technical problems with the book form, and came up with several solutions.
The washes we had made were now dry. We got out calligraphy pens and experimented with lettering over those washes, comparing how the paint coming out of the pen reacted with the wash layer underneath. Many of were able to get sharper lines of lettering on the washes that contained glair.
Didn’t we do some fun stuff?:
Here’s what’s on the agenda for our next meeting on September 9:
