Flat Brush Party
Enter into the fantastic world of Massimo’s favorite tool, the flat brush, and learn why it is a great tool to express yourself. Through practical exercises and compositions we will examine the quality of rhythmical lines and learn to use this tool with several historical calligraphic styles. The flat brush offers you so much flexibility and expressive possibilities. Learning to use the flat brush means having the ability to write on any surface: walls, textile, wood, glass, and more.
→ Want to follow along live? Have these materials on hand!
Flat brush: Winsor & Newton series 995 is recommended
Gouache
Palette with a flat edge/lip
Based in Turin, Italy, Massimo Polello has worked as a calligrapher for over twenty years. He has explored its classical and contemporary applications in visuals arts and graphic design. These include designing packaging and signage logos for companies, museums and individuals, as well as applying his designs to walls, films and art videos. He has exhibited, led workshops internationally: US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Canada, Pakistan, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, England, and he worked on several short films, and is a contributor to Graphicus, TipoItalia and Letters Arts Review magazines. He has been part of the faculty for four international calligraphy conferences in the United States.
He published, in collaboration with the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, a prestigious limited edition book for the RIJKS MUSEUM in Amsterdam The Rijksbook and in 2009 Traité de la peinture-Extraits with Editions Alternatives Publisher-Paris and worked with artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway in "Peopling the Palace" and with the director Luca Ronconi on the installation of the of 150th Anniversary exhibition of the Unification of Italy, "La Bella Italia".
He is President of Turin calligraphers´ guild “Dal Segno alla Scrittura” and works in his Studio Gallery ABC Atelier in Turin.
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