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Sketchbook Explorations for Mixed-Media and Textile Artists - Shelley Rhodes
Lettering with Love - The simple art of handwriting with watercolour embellishment - Sue Hiepler & Yasmin Reddig Synopsis: Learn the art of drawing beautiful letters, adorned with watercolour paint. This exquisite book by the founders of the studio May & Berry shows you how to create beautiful messages through the combination of hand lettering and watercolour. Broken down into easy-to-follow stages, you will soon learn how to use different pens and inks to produce gorgeous lettering, embellished with simple yet stunningly effective watercolour motifs. This practical book guides you gently through the materials and tools you need to get started, and sets you on your hand-lettering journey with some simple exercises. There are then ten pretty step-by-step projects for you to try, after which you’ll be confidently creating your own handwritten artworks that you can display on your wall, send as notecards to loved ones, or use to decorate your journals and scrapbooks. At the back of the book there is a treasure trove of gorgeous botanicalstyle motifs and borders along with four delightful alphabets created by the authors in a variety of scripts perfect for gently encouraging ISSUE˚62
beginners and inspiring more experienced hand-lettering artists to play with new designs and styles. This is followed by six handy worksheets on which to practise your letterwriting technique. You'll soon find that hand lettering with watercolour is quick and fun to learn, and a wonderful skill that will bring you joy for many years to come.
Synopsis: How to use sketchbooks to explore mixed media techniques in textile art. In Sketchbook Explorations, renowned textile artist Shelley Rhodes offers a wealth of advice on creating and working with sketchbooks in mixed media, from gathering inspiration to displaying finished books. Whether out on location or in the studio, Rhodes explores every stage of the creative process, from initial inspiration to overcoming the fear of a blank page, manipulating paper and incorporating found objects to build sketchbooks that are both beautiful and inspiring.
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Beautifully illustrated throughout with inspiring examples from leading textile and mixed-media artists, Sketchbook Explorations will help you harness the power of the sketchbook to inform and inspire your textile art.
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This is an absolutely delightful book, what we love is that the authors cover both hand lettering and watercolouring. The illustrations are absolutely stunning. There is a really comprehensive introductory section titled “Good to Know’ full of helpful tips and information about the tools and techniques. This is followed by a practical collection of projects using both techniques. The final section called “Creative Treasure Trove’ contains a wide range of designs and letter styles, plus exercise sheets. We loved this, a wonderful way to get started.
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As advocates of always having a notebook with us, we love this book! It’s a very imaginative take on ways of using sketchbooks, notebooks, workbooks, journals, as part of the journey towards a finished creation and as Shelley explains, they may become the artwork themselves. This stunning book is packed through with beautiful examples of so many ways to use sketchbooks, from how to get started, working in mixed media, travelling with a sketchbook, exhibiting, other forms of collecting, and even using digital technology. This is one of our favourite sources of inspiration!
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