Come and make a weathergram led by Bill Theobald!
All levels invited…it’s easy and fun!!! Bill will have plenty of examples to inspire us!
Materials suggested
- Speedball C-2 nib
- Straight pen nib holder
- Higgins Eternal black ink
- Vermillion Ink, FU2R, Yasutomo (you will need enough for one letter, and Maggie will have 3 bottles at the meeting)
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Brown Grocery bag paper in 2 1/2″ x 10” strips. (Maggie will bring plenty)
- Hand Punch
- Butcher string
The Weathergram is a very short poem of about ten words — or less. It comes as a sudden insight; and hence brevity is essential. Furthermore, no one will stop to read any lengthy statement while standing in the wind or rain.
The weathergram is hung on a bough or branch in the garden, at a campsite, or along a mountain trail. The subject matter is usually seasonal, and the weathergram is left out between solstice and the equinox or between equinox and solstice.
Raw and incomplete when just written, the weathergram needs the graphic touches of wind, rain, sun, and ice-depending on the season. It may fade to an off-white, old bone color, and ragged edges give it some of the qualities of a faded leaf. During its three months of weathering, it starts going back to nature; this makes it a true weathergram, a “weather-writing.”
~ From WEATHERGRAMS, Lloyd Reynolds, 1972
Although initially written in rapid writing italic, for the purpose of this exercise, any form of calligraphic alphabet will be just fine.
