Brush Lettering - Create Beautiful Calligraphy with Brushes and Brush Pens (Hardcover)

A beautifully illustrated practical guide to creating beautiful modern lettering with brushes and brush pens, complete with a sumptuous selection of projects. For the follow-up to her popular book Modern Lettering, calligrapher extraordinaire Rebecca Cahill Roots, AKA Betty Etiquette, concentrates on the area of calligraphy that she's increasingly finding is the most popular: brush lettering. In this quirky and relatable guide, she guides you through how to use brushes and brush pens to make exquisite letterforms. It's a beautiful, free-spirited style that, once you've cracked the basics, you can add your unique personality to. The book is divided by type of media, with each section containing a set of exercises to help you get used to the pen or brush, an alphabet and a set of numbers to copy, and an example quote in the lettering style. Techniques include: * Using ink and brush * Lettering with watercolour * Lettering with gouache * Brush pens * Metallic brush pens To finish off, there's a selection of pretty and practical projects to make using brush lettering, including beautifully decorated celebration cards, cushions and tableware. Word count: 20,000 words.

General

Imprint:	Batsford
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2019
Authors:	Rebecca Cahill Roots
Dimensions:	246 x 189 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-84994-544-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > Lettering & calligraphy Books > Health, Home & Family > Handicrafts > Paper crafts > General
LSN:	1-84994-544-6
Barcode:	9781849945448

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