Learn how to hand letter with watercolor - no experience necessary! New from the founder of KellyCreates and author of The Art of Brush Lettering (highly rated) this is The Art of Watercolor Lettering: A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Painting Modern Calligraphy and Lettered Art by Kelly Klapstein. The Canadian lettering expert takes readers methodically through the process of watercolor hand lettering. Learn about the essential supplies you'll need - paints, brushes, and paper. Review some watercolor basics. This includes practical exercises to help develop your technique and style. The watercolor exercises continue throughout the book. Look at a variety of lettering (drawing) and calligraphy (writing or brush script) techniques using watercolor. Explore more advanced techniques, tools and materials for creating a range of effects with watercolor. Use your new skills to make designs for gifts, home decor, cards, journals and more! At the back of the book are 19 perforated sheets for trace and learn practice. Paint on these large 8.6 x 10 inch (21.8 x 25.4 cm) pages directly or photocopy them to make multiples. The table of contents is listed below. It's a complete guide to creating beautiful watercolor lettering! Quarry Books released the 144 page paperback on October 22 2019. A Kindle edition is available. Get your copy below!
Contents
INTRODUCTION
My watercolor journey & the beauty of watercolor lettering
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
Essential supplies: paint, brushes, paper & more
GETTING STARTED
Working with color, how to hold a brush, making swatches & warm-up exercises
IN LOVE WITH LETTERS
Typography & lettering styles
COLOR PLAY
Techniques & projects for creating with color
CREATIVE TECHNIQUES
Creating & enhancing lettering with watercolor pencils, brush pens & other tools
DREAMY DESIGNS
Painting quotes, adding designs & other special touches
TRACE & LEARN
Alphabet exemplars, words & quotes for lettering projects
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Index
INTRODUCTION
Combining my love of writing, calligraphy, and paint brings me to a very joyful place right here in this book. And I hope it brings you all those wonderful artistic creative feelings too. I wish you a joyful, peaceful, and beautiful experience exploring the art of watercolor lettering.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
When it comes to learning and practicing lettering with watercolor, there are a few important considerations, which you’ll read about in this chapter. Choosing the right brushes, paints, and paper will help make your learning experience easier and stress-free.
GETTING STARTED
This book isn’t about all the technique and terminology of painting with watercolor, but I share basic knowledge to help you appreciate this wonderful medium. In this chapter, we also do some creative warm-up exercises to help you get well acquainted with your brush and feel more confident.
IN LOVE WITH LETTERS
With watercolor, you can paint the letters as you would in hand lettering, applying paint to form the structure of letters and words. In this chapter, we look at a variety of lettering and calligraphy techniques using watercolor.
COLOR PLAY
Watercolor’s properties as a liquid medium help us achieve beautiful results with lettering. Learn how to layer paint for monotone patterns, blend watercolor paints for rainbow and galaxy lettering, create dramatic results with metallic watercolor, achieve eye-catching white lettering, and more. Let’s take advantage of the mobility of the water and create some wonderful effects with color.
CREATIVE TECHNIQUES
Watercolor lettering can be achieved in a variety of ways, not just with paint in tubes or cakes or liquids. You can create lettering with watercolor pencils, water brushes, markers, and more! Learning how to use these tools will help expand your watercolor lettering tool box when you’re designing projects.
DREAMY DESIGNS
After learning how to use watercolor paint and practicing some lettering styles, you can now apply your skills and create some colorful designs for gifts, home décor, cards, journals, and more.
TRACE & LEARN
In the pages that follow, you will find brush script worksheets for repetitive practice. There are also exemplars of other alphabets that will help you develop an understanding of how to paint different styles, block, serif, sans serif, decorative and more. By practicing with these guides, you will be on your way to creating beautiful, artistic watercolor lettering!
The Art of Watercolor Lettering is available worldwide at Quarry Books, a division of the Quarto Publishing Group USA. Check out their unique catalog at Quarry Books. Quarto has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until April 5, 2020. Canada & the USA only. Good luck!
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