San Francisco Center for the Book

This workshop takes place on three consecutive Thursday evenings.

Let’s pick up where we left off on our last night—Billy's take on Copperplate/Spencerian. We’ll practice our strokes and bring them together to create upper and lower case letter forms. Then we'll experiment with different inks and gouaches on various papers.

SFCB's Windgate Scholarship Fund is dedicated to providing need-based financial support to individuals interested in learning bookbinding, letterpress printing, and related book arts. Click here to apply.

Prerequisite: Hand Lettering I

Materials to bring: 

Mechanical pencil
Pelikan® 4001 Brilliant Black Ink
Straight Pen Holder
Ultra-Fine Point Sharpie®
C-Thru® B-85 Ruler

(A limited number of inks will available for purchase directly from Billy)

About the Instructor: Billy Ola Hutchinson’s passion for lettering began in pre-school with the assistance of Mommy Billie. Billy and Billie spent hours shaping letterforms day in and day out. Later in life, Little Billy parlayed that lettering passion into a calligraphic profession, creating a petit line of stationery, penning custom lettering for clients, designing a line of porcelain for San Francisco's luxury speciality store, Gump’s and of course as an instructor at SFCB—taking students through those first steps Little Billy took with Big Billie. Billy's lettering has been featured in magazines, wedding invitations, place cards, monograms, and brand identities.