DECORATED BORDERS: REPEATING PATTERNS
Master Penman Harvest Crittenden, Instructor
Learn the fundamentals of creating beautiful borders that add dimension and visual interest to your calligraphic pieces.
Harvest will break down the steps of creating repeating pattern borders and offer guidance as to how to build up your designs from there!

Learn to create a 2 inch design that becomes the base for your whole piece!
Pssst, Professional Calligraphers! This is a great way to add value to your commissioned pieces!
How it works
This is a live Zoom class over four days: March 7, 10, 14, & 17, 2023, at 1PM EST (GMT-5).
The lessons will be 2 hours with an optional 30 minutes for questions afterwards.
The Zoom classes will be recorded and available through May 17th, 2023.
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DECORATED BORDERS: REPEATING PATTERNS
$195
Live online course with video replay
+ Student forum for feedback
March 7, 10, 14, & 17, 2023
1PM EST (GMT-5)
10 hours total:
2 hours per session
+ 30 min. optional Q&A
(all recordings available through May 17th, 2023)
These are just a few of the things that will be covered in the class...
- Fundamentals of creating beautiful borders
- Repeating elements that can be combined to create dozens of options
- CMYK color palette and how to paint the borders
- How to care for your documents that include borders
About Harvest
HARVEST CRITTENDEN, IAMPETH Master Penman, has been a professional lettering artist for more than 40 years. Past owner of The Gold Leaf and founder of Acorn Arts, Harvest specializes in calligraphy, illumination, and engrossing. Harvest is a past winner of the Marjorie Pavelich Calligraphy Grant, and past president of The Michigan Association of Calligraphers. She has studied illumination and lettering in the United States and Italy and has served on the faculties of numerous regional, national and international conferences and offers workshops internationally. Harvest is the Director of Acorn Arts, a premier online school that has calligraphy classes with instructors and students worldwide.
Her work can be seen in museums, galleries and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. She has been published in numerous publications, including: American Artist, Pen World Magazine, Bound & Lettered, Somerset Magazine, Morphing Monograms, The Speedball Textbook and many others.

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