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Description - Brush Lettering: Create beautiful calligraphy with brushes and brush pens by Rebecca Cahill Roots

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 letter forms. 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.

Sections 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 sample layouts for bullet journals and celebration cards.

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