Mastering Italic Hand – online course with videos and expert feedback
£400.00 – £440.00
One-to-one tuition from an SSI Fellow – available to start whenever you are ready. Eight detailed lessons will take you from the basics and guide you through the main variations on the script. Accompanying short videos will let you see and replay the main points for each lesson.
On application you will be assigned to a tutor who is expertly placed to review your work and to provide feedback, examples and encouragement throughout the course.
Announcing a new distance learning course on the Italic hand
Watch the introduction:
The course content is:
- Lesson 1: Skeleton letters, spacing
- Lesson 2: Analysis of Bembo’s sonnets, double pencil letters
- Lesson 3: Beginning to write with the pen
- Lesson 4: Consolidating formal italic, writing with smaller nibs
- Lesson 5: Writing a finished piece, beginning to vary the italic form
- Lesson 6: Continuing variation, serifs, cursive italic, slope
- Lesson 7: Pointed italic, varying the branch point
- Lesson 8: Combining variations in one form, interpretation
Alongside the lessons you will receive a comprehensive introduction to tools and materials you will require and information sheets on layout, writing finished work and interpretation.
The course is open to both members and non-members. The cost for members is £400 and for non-members it is £440.
On purchasing, you will be sent an email with a link to download the course literature and access to the videos.
You will be assigned to a tutor who will guide you through the lessons, marking your work, providing feedback, examples and encouragement. All tutors on the course are experienced SSI Fellows.