All of my life I’ve been ‘keeping’ Notebooks. in the course of years, simple notes shifted towards calligraphy. I explored what I could do with simple blank pages and a mechanical pencil 0,3 mm. I was

not much of a big lay-out planner, so every time I just started a page, not knowing where it would lead me. Now, it’s nearly become impossible for me to just ‘write’ in these notebooks. My simple everyday notes became calligraphy/lettering too. And I kept on exploring more and more possibilities. In the mean time, there’s this one notebook that I’ve been working in for 10 years, and this is the starting point of this workshop. I will be showing how I work in this notebook and take out several ‘lay-outs’ to try out. In the mean time, I will be talking about letterdrawing and we go through different alphabets and how to draw them with pencil, fineliner, Speedball C5 pen, colourpencils. And more important, how to use and apply different rhythms with all of those letters.