Instructional DVD's on Copperplate and Spencerian

by Ron Tate

 

Ron Tate completed his BA in Fine Arts at Brigham Young University in 1967. He was nominated as Artist the Year at Dixie State College in 1963. He has been trained as a Spencerian Penman by Mike Sull at the Spencerian Saga in 1990. He teaches art at a Salt Lake Community College while working as a full-time calligrapher. He served as the calligrapher for the State of Utah under the direction of the Governor with his appointed offices providing beautiful resolutions and completing thousands of projects. He continues to design wedding invitations and perform calligraphic services for clients throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Africa and numerous other countries. He is an experienced engraver for numerous stores and individuals desiring unique items engraved in glass or metal. Ron has  been teaching classes in private schools, colleges and individual instruction since 1983.

If you would like to learn Spencerian, roundhand a.k.a., engrosser's script or copperplate, we can help you.

 

Ron has just completed a 2 volume set of DVD's on how to learn or improve your Copperplate or Spencerian. These DVD's include step by step instructions starting with how to hold your pen and how to sit at your desk through how to do each lower case and capital letter. He also includes on-line resources and more.

 

Ron exhibits the small detailed slight of hand as he carefully shows step-by-step how to make the letters that were developed long ago.  Included in the DVDs are some of the work and actual pens used by the masters themselves.

 

To see a short movie trailer of each DVD, please click here.

 

The DVD's sell for $29.95 each.