The Art of Watercolor Lettering
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The Art of Watercolor Lettering
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The Art of Watercolor Lettering offers detailed tutorials on hand lettering and calligraphy that gently guide readers through the process of lettering with a potentially challenging medium, teaching them to letter artfully and mindfully.
Learn to letter beautifully with watercolour. In this stunning follow-up to her highly praised and influential first book, The Art of Brush Lettering, lettering expert and workshop instructor Kelly Klapstein (popular on Instagram as @kellycreates) shares her secrets for mastering the essential techniques for creating lovely modern lettering and calligraphy with watercolour.
Start with the basics, from choosing paints, brushes, and other supplies to preparing your paper for painting. Learn to handle watercolour paints with essential strokes and warm-ups. Explore painting letterforms in a variety of styles, from traditional to modern.
Try a range of creative techniques, including blending ombres and rainbows, creating pictorial letterforms, and combining watercolour with other mediums. Enhance your lettering with special touches by complementing it with hand-painted backgrounds and simple illustrations.
With The Art of Watercolor Lettering, you'll learn how to master the mediumβand how to go with the watercolour flowβto create one-of-a-kind lettered art and calligraphy that reflect your unique personal style.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781631597800
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 October 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Quarry Books
Illustration: 250 color photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 216.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
The author of The Art of Brush Lettering (Quarry Books, 2017), Kelly Klapstein is the founder and owner of KellyCreates, an online provider of instruction and inspiration for brush lettering. After a decade of teaching high school English, along with writing and developing curriculum, Kelly now runs her site and lettering business full time. She is also a designer and writer for Creative Scrapbooker magazine, and travels and teaches workshops around the world, sharing her love of lettering with a global creative community. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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