Have Pens Will Dazzle presents:
With Kathy Milici
Let's design and decorate letters!
with Kathy Milici
Kathy has created a lively and versatile new alphabet to share with you! These updated, whimsical initials go beautifully with Modern Storybook Script, or any casual alphabet of your choosing. You can use them as stand-alone initials, on envelopes, for yourself and for gifts! Design a full word or phrase and frame it!
In this 2-day online workshop, you'll learn...
...how to draw, flourish, decorate, and colorize your own stylish initial letters! Using the templates and Kathy’s easy, thoughtful instruction, it’s fun to design your own letters that come to life right before your eyes!
First, you’ll learn how to sketch and construct the letter structures using the hand-drawn templates from Kathy’s comprehensive handouts. With easy-to-follow tutorials, you’ll experiment with various looks like line design details, colors, flourishing, and background options before making final choices.
You’ll decorate each letter and experiment with outlining, inlining, dimensional shading, simple watercolor and colored pencil techniques, adding pen texture, flourishing, and other charming additions!
Then we’ll render our final initials using pen and ink, watercolor and/or colored pencils, micron markers, graphite, white ink, and of course, gold watercolor and embossing with a special tool!
Class recordings will be available to view until May 28, 2025.
Student Experience
Beginners to Advanced Calligraphers are Welcome!
Kathy’s teaching style has been described as thoughtful, intelligent, detailed, entertaining, and joyful! She believes in the healing power of creating art.
What You'll Learn:
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What Kathy's Students are Saying:
"Kathy's teaching is inspirational. There is nothing quite like watching a master and learning. I'm in awe of Kathy's skill and so glad you are able to teach online!"
~ Jackie Raper, UK
"Thanks, Maureen, for enabling us letter-lovers to be exposed to Kathy’s positive and non-threatening classes. She has a gentle energy that is contagious and her willingness to share her love of the written form
is what makes me keep returning to whatever she’s teaching."
~ LaVerne Parfait, USA
"Kathy Milici has been a true inspiration to me with her can-do attitude and teaching style. She is an instructor who wants you to "get it" and gives practical suggestions so you too can have stellar results. Remembering there is no substitute for practice, you will leave the class understanding what it will take to get the end results you desire. Kathy's creativity knows no bounds!"
~ Edie Richardson, USA
Class Schedule
Modern Ornamental Initials (MOI) will consist of four 2-hour class sessions taught over two days:
Sessions 1 & 2: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Sessions 3 & 4: Thursday, March 27, 2025
Times: 10:30 am-12:30 pm US Eastern time & 2:00-4:00 pm US Eastern time each class day
Level: ALL (Beginners Welcome!)
Cost: $ 195
EARLY BIRD GIFT: All students who register by MARCH 10th will receive a complimentary DECORATED ENVELOPE from Kathy!
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SUPPLIES: After you register, you will receive a confirmation email that includes a link to your Have Pens Will Dazzle® student portal. You can login to download the Supply List found in the Welcome Module at the bottom of the page.
CLASS RECORDINGS: We will post links to the class recordings and teacher demo sheets in the student portal the day after class. The recordings will be available until May 28, 2025.
REFUND POLICY: All sales are final. Fees paid for this online workshop are non-refundable and non-transferable to future workshops.
About Your Instructor, Kathy Milici
Kathy is an internationally known calligrapher, designer, teacher, speaker, author and mentor, who happily admits to being obsessed with letters since childhood. With a studio located in northern New Jersey, her work has been featured in books, design blogs, national magazines and on television. Kathy's clients include private individuals, collectors and corporations, worldwide.
Kathy Milici has been an instructor for the Society of Scribes in New York City, a popular instructor at national and international calligraphy conferences, including IAMPETH, Letters California Style, and for the Sacred Arts Program at Enders Island in Mystic, CT. She teaches both small group classes and privately in NJ, and travels the country, promoting, lecturing and teaching calligraphy and the related arts.
The originator of the #1 best-selling font Gratitude Script, a modern typeface, Kathy also enjoys mentoring fellow artists and students on how to create a living and maintain a viable business as a working artist. With a reputation for consistent excellence, a joyful heart, and a fun, encouraging teaching style, Kathy is honored to be a professional calligrapher and teacher for over 40 years. She feels privileged to have studied under some of the best known and well-respected Master Penmen of the world, including White House calligraphers. Her teachers have included Sheila and Julian Waters, Valerie Weilmunster, and IAMPETH Master Penmen Pat Blair, Michael Sull, John DeCollibus, Harvest Crittenden, Jake Weidmann, and Rosemary Buczek.
After all these years, Kathy is still enjoying her lifelong passion for “everything calligraphy.”
About Your Tech Host, Maureen Vickery
Maureen Vickery is a professional calligrapher and engraver with PenDance Studio in Houston, Texas. She also is the publisher and editor of Calligraphy Crush Magazine @calligraphycrushmagazine.
Her specialties include wedding calligraphy and hand engraving on glass and metal gift items. She loves working in both historic and modern calligraphy styles. Her main focus is pointed pen lettering, but she also enjoys creating compositions with broad edge pens, markers, and paint brushes.
Maureen's work has appeared in Dasherie, UPPERCASE, Expression, Letter Arts Review, Modern Luxury Weddings Houston, and Weddings in Houston magazines, as well as Kitty Burns Florey's book Script & Scribble. She is a member of the Houston Calligraphy Guild and IAMPETH.
You can find her wedding calligraphy on Instagram at @pendancestudio. Brand activations and calligraphy clients include Creed, Coty, Tiffany & Co., The Menil Collection, Burberry, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Macy’s.
Calligraphy and art classes are her favorite way to re-energize. Other interests include Keto recipes, gardening, Zentangle® (she’s a CZT), urban sketching, genealogy (she’s a descendant of 11 Mayflower passengers), watercolor illustrations, doubles tennis, and lemon bar cookies — not necessarily in that order.
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