I’m so excited to be teaching workshops at both the DC Supershow and the San Francisco Pen Show. I am reprising a few classes I’ve taught previously as well as introducing some new workshops.
I will be teaching Swatch Your Inks in both DC and SF, a workshop I offered in the past which will give attendees a chance to learn all the techniques I use to sample, catalog and organize my ink collection. Each attendee will receive a kit of tools to start them on their ink swatching journey as well as an opportunity to try lots of other tools, papers and methods plus lots of inks to play with!
I am so excited to share my newest class, Gamify Your Life, with the pen community. It utilizes mechanics from role-playing games, video games and other game nerdery to help make getting shit done more fun. This session will be a chance to play while helping to keep you on task. This workshop will appeal to anyone who loves imaginary points or is inspired by those little hits of dopamine that come from checking something off a list. Each attendee will receive stickers, a full set of dice and some gaming sheets to get them started.
I love to make my own stamps using simple tools like erasers and I love sharing the technique with others in my Carve Your Own Rubber Stamps workshop. Its fun, easy and you don’t need to be an “artist” or “good draw-er” to make stamps. I will show techniques for transferring designs, carving and stamping and then the best part of the class — swapping completed stamp designs with the other attendees in the class! Every attendee gets a carving tool to take home to use forever.
The Sigils Workshop will be held on Saturday evening, August 30 from 7-8:30pm.
And JUST ADDED, in DC, Sigils will be Saturday, August 2 at 5:30 in the Vanness Pen Lounge!
These late night sessions will be a great way to relax after a busy pen show. We’ll try to dim the lights and make it the most magical experience for attendees.
I am also hosting a couple seminar sessions in SF on dispelling the misconceptions around Fountain Pens for Lefties on Friday and Saturday. Seminars are free and first-come, first-serve.
Some of the sessions are filling up fast so if you’ll be attending either show, be sure to sign up early before they fill up. And I’m so looking forward to meeting everyone in person and sharing all these fun workshops.
There are also tons of other great workshops and seminars occurring at both events so you’ll probably have to spend some time on their sites to schedule out your weekends.