Gothic Brush Lettering with Olive Panter
Sunday September 17, 2023 - 11AM-5PM
In this one day gothic brush lettering workshop with professional sign painter Olive Panter, you will learn the techniques for the construction of Gothic letterforms: the base of a sign painter’s visual toolkit. We'll cover universal proportions across variations of the alphabet, practice the strokes that build the alphabet, and most importantly, relearn how to hold a brush specifically to paint signs.
Other alphabets/applications and pattern making will be demoed. You’ll leave with a small tempera painting on paper. Masks are highly encouraged to protect our immunocompromised community.
All participants will be provided with practice handouts and a quality lettering brush to take home to continue to develop their skills.
Olive Panter (b. 1990, they/them) is a sign painter born and based in Brooklyn, NY. They are the owner and operator of design and fabrication studio Pantero, mainly collaborating with small NY restaurants and businesses. Clients include Patagonia, The Standard Hotel Group, The Queens Museum, The Atlantic, Metropolis. They received their BFA from The Cooper Union in 2014 and attended the Sign Graphics program at Los Angeles Trade Tech, the last sign painting school in the US, from 2018-2020. They are currently on the Illustration Faculty at Parsons and teach sign painting through High School Outreach at The Cooper Union.
You can see more of Olive’s work on their Instagram.