Store Web Sites
John Neal, Bookseller
Paper & Ink Arts
Amazon.com
Barnes & Noble
Instructor's or Instructional Web Sites
Reggie Ezell
Bruce McEvoy's Watercolor Guide
Calligraphy Lessons Online - animated ductus for Foundational and Italic letters
Manuscript Pen Lessons pages
Medieval Writing
The Sun Never Sets - Links - the rest of the site has interesting instructional pages
Islamic calligraphy lessons
Enhancing calligraphy with the computer - Ray Ritchie
Scanning Large Artwork
Scanning Tips
Name-specific Permanence Data for Digital Printing Devices
PhotoShop Resources, Tutorials
Explanation of Vector and raster graphics
Photoshop Tutorials and Other Graphic Resources
Book Arts Tutorials
Douglas Jones - Bookbinding Tutorial
Five-stitch Bookbinding
How to make a scroll
Making Books with Children - Free Projects
Guidelines for Restoration and Preservation
Templates, Instructions, Ideas - Southworth Paper
Online Tools
Gridlines
Gridlines - Margaret Shepherd
Grid / slant lines
Generate PDFs of grid / slant lines; lots of options
Color Wheel - click on wheel
How to Paint backwards
Calligraphers and Calligraphy Groups
Cyberscribes - an e-mail list of over 1,000 calligraphers and lettering artists from around the world
Cyberscribes Graphics Board - a dynamic board used by Cyberscribes to post artwork, pictures of tools, pictures to illustrate techniques, etc.
Cynscribe - a treasure trove of calligraphy-related links, including sources for supplies, book arts, collage, hands, instruction. One of the most comprehensive lists of calligraphy-related links, if not THE most.
IAMPETH - The International Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers and Teachers of Handwriting; contains scans of many out-of-print books and lessons in pointed-pen lettering
LetterSpace Nexus - another list of links, related to lettering and type design
Roann Mathias
Annie Cicale
Cari Ferraro
Mike Kecseg
Jane Parillo
Ray Ritchie
Ziller of Kansas City - Rich & Vivian Mungall
Rory Kotin - NYC calligrapher - samples and price chart
Conferences
Odyssey 2010 - Stonehill College, Easton, MA (Five of our members are already signed up to go!)
Calligraphy Connection 2009 - St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
Letters Mingle Souls - Chicago, IL
Software
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program (free)
GIMP for Windows
Inkscape - Free Open Source Vector Graphics Program
Calli-Graphic - curved or straight line generator
The Genesee Valley Calligraphy Guild does not endorse any particular resource. We provide this list as a reference tool only.
