All posts tagged: Hand Lettering

A month of creative lettering.

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During October I joined Pam Garrison and Creative Bug for a month of creative lettering.  Each day a new video was released on the Creative Bug site to instruct and inspire a new lettering idea or technique. I chose a handmade book which was waiting for the opportunity to be filled with letters and lettering. Inside are just over 30 pages of a variety of paper from navy thin paper to cold and hot press watercolour paper via a few sheets of brown kraft paper. Here are my favorite pages from the month.   I enjoyed the whole month but I think my favorites are the sumi brush and ink alphabet and the watercolor shape alphabet. I love a  monthly challenge! Happy Wednesday x

I Love my New Waterbrush

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Are you the type of person who thinks everyone knows how to do something except you?  I am.  And when I do learn I think I am the very last person in the world that knows how to use whatever the new thing is.  So, here I am with this fab new art supply in my life and I want to run about and tell everyone, so here I am, running about, telling you! I bought a waterbrush a couple of months ago as part of a class I had signed up for, but I didn’t end up using it, so it  has sat in my drawer since. Yesterday I started a class at Skillshare called Watercolor Lettering Essentials which solely uses a waterbrush for the projects.  Hurrah I thought as I grabbed the brush, I can use it at last. Well, hurrah indeed, once I had got used to using the brush, I fell in love with it. I think the reason I left it for so long was that I didn’t know how …

Girl Fifteen Letters

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Here we are at the letter X in our month of hand lettering practice, March has got it’s running shoes laced up and is zooming by. I decided at the end of February that I wanted to do some hand lettering and didn’t really know where to start, so I thought I would write and draw a letter every day in March. So, I did, and some fab folks have joined me and we are having quite the lettering party at #GirlFifteenLetters over on Instagram! Many many wonderful ideas are pouring forth, and I have learnt so much and been so inspired by just spending a few minutes a day drawing letters and checking out everyone else’s lettering too. I am also participating in Made Vibrant‘s ‘Meet Yourself March’ challenge and lettering all kinds of words and phrases for that. To think that I have a sketchbook full of words, letters and ideas is a great thing and I love to look through what I have accomplished and look forward to doing more through to …

Hand Lettering in the Month of March

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Have you started to practise anything new this year or recently?  I have always had a little desire lurking about in my mind that I want to draw and illustrate and hand letter.  For literally months and maybe years, this voice has had an adversary who kept assuring us that this would not be possible because of all the ‘can’t’s which were in the same evil gang. Well, I decided to ignore the evil ‘can’t’ gang this year and I decided to set myself a challenge for the month of March and draw/write a letter for each day followed by some quotes and phrases.  At the same time I signed up for the lettering class at Made Vibrant and discovered that Caroline finishes her class with a monthly challenge to letter a phrase a day through March.  How perfectly did that work out!? So I am up to the letter D today which I am looking forward to playing with in my sketchbook. I had never lettered anything in my whole life until March 1st …

Girl Fifteen Letters – a Hand Lettering Challenge for March.

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Do you always look at the fabulous hand lettering which seems to be everywhere at the minute and think, I wonder if I can do that? I can write the letters just fine, why not add my own pzazz?! Well, I have been thinking this for far too long, so on the back of my immensly enjoyable month taking part in Tinkersketch, I decided that in March I am going to write and draw letters every day. Just for a few minutes or as long as the mood takes me, no pressure. I have no experience in creating hand lettering, I borrowed ‘Draw Your Own Alphabets’ by Tony Seddon from the library and I bought ‘Hand Lettering Ledger’ by Mary Kate McDevitt.   I have signed up for the lettering course at Made Vibrant and I hung onto Lisa Congdon‘s every word in her Line Drawing class at Creative Bug in which she teaches a lesson on lettering. That all said, I really haven’t had a go, I have flicked through the books and watched the first videos of the …

‘I like’ Fridays.

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This week I am liking lots of things, the arctic weather we are having is not one of them! Check out this fab post about making your very own font from Tiny Rotten Peanuts.  I am going to give this a go this weekend. There are some good t shirts for Red Nose Day this year, my Mum is sending me the Matthew Williamson ‘Do my Feathers Look Big in This?’  one, because I am spoiled! I am still having a blast with the Tinkersketch challenge, I might just finish the month! There is a plan in my brain to do my own personal challenge through March – a hand lettering practice.  You should join in too!  More info next week (when I have figured it out…) The book I am reading is a really good one – Ella and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper. I have been obsessively making this bread which just needs throwing together the night before.  Perfect for weekend breakfast. What have you been liking this week?  Lots …