Watercolor & Hand Lettering

Step-By-Step Techniques for Modern Illustrated Calligraphy

Tanja Pöltl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2021
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-1-4463-0855-4 (ISBN)

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Learn how to combine watercolor with hand lettering to create beautiful art and gifts. Artist Tanja Pöltl shares the know-how she's learned on her creative journey so that you can fast-track your skills. 20 step-by-step projects include gift boxes, journals, cards, labels, posters, hoop art, table runners, height charts, box frames and more.

Learn how to combine delicate watercolor illustrations with expressive hand lettering to create beautiful art and gifts.Self-taught artist Tanja Pöltl shares the tips, tricks and know-how she's learned on her creative journey so that you can fast-track your skills.

Discover the materials you'll need in terms of watercolor paints, brushes, paper and pens, then get started with Tanja's exercises to learn the basic techniques of hand lettering and watercolor painting. In the Hand Lettering Know-How section you will start with some warm up exercises and practice letters, before learning faux calligraphy, bounce lettering, joining letters and more. In the Watercolor Know-How section you will learn how to handle the brush, and gain color knowledge as well as an understanding of tonal values, transparency and opacity, and learn how to create your own unique color palette.

20 amazing step-by-step painting and lettering projects then help you put your skills in action with ideas for a myriad of different applications. Create a moodboard, inspirational cards, seasonal gift boxes, a botanical table runner, a plant journal, floral greetings cards, fruity jar labels, posters, hoop art, party stationery, a birth poster, milestone cards, a height chart, recipe cards, an illustrated ABC, box frames, 3D flowers, and more ;all beautifully illustrated in a modern yet timeless style. These inspiring projects are so varied and interesting, and will undoubtedly spark ideas for all sorts of other ways you can use watercolor and hand lettering together to create beautiful yet easy art.

Even if you are a total beginner, this book will kickstart your creative journey with watercolor and hand lettering, showing you the techniques and giving you fun projects to try them out on. This accessible guide to easy watercolour and hand lettering techniques will teach you everything you need to make art that makes you happy!

Self-taught and full of enthusiasm for experimentation artist Tanja Pöltl is your teacher and guide. She's taught thousands of beginners to find their creative voice through her workshops and classes, and can't wait to help you on your journey into the wonderful world of watercolor and hand lettering.

Tanja Pöltl is a media and communications consultant and has been working in a media agency since graduating from her master's degree in 2014. Shortly before her maternity leave in 2017, she discovered hand lettering and watercolor illustration. Self-taught and full of enthusiasm for experimentation she collected a lot of know-how, which today she passes on to others in workshops. She lives in Vienna.

Foreword 6
INTRODUCTION
My journey: 365 days of creative downtime8
Your creative journey10

BASICS
MATERIALS
Hand lettering pens 21
Watercolor paint 22
Brushes 23
Paper 24

HAND LETTERING KNOW-HOW
Hand lettering basics26
Warm-up exercises 28
Practicing letters 29
Faux calligraphy 32
Joining up letters 33
Bounce lettering 34
The grid line 34
Alphabets 35

WATERCOLOR KNOW-HOW
Checklist: what you need 39
Paint-to-water mixing ratio 40
Basic techniques 42
Handling the brush 45
Color knowledge 46
Tonal range, transparency, opacity 49
Your personal color palette 50
An introduction to gouache 51

PROJECTS
ABSTRACT
Moodboard 54
Inspiration cards 56
Seasonal gift boxes 60

GREEN & FLORAL
Botanical table runner 64
Plant journal 68
Floral greeting72
Hoop art 76
Mounted 3D floral 80

FRUITY
Fruity labels 84
Partyware 88
Seasonal calendar 92
Recipe cards 96

CHILDREN
Birth poster 100
Milestone cards 102
The big ABC 104
Picture wall 106
Height chart 110

INSECTS
Beetle canvases 112
Moth notebook cover 116
A bug’s life 120

About the author 124
Acknowledgements 126
Index 127

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2021
Verlagsort	Newton Abbot
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 273 mm
Gewicht	552 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen
ISBN-10	1-4463-0855-3 / 1446308553
ISBN-13	978-1-4463-0855-4 / 9781446308554
Zustand	Neuware