• tulip lettering, shadowed lettering with a watercolor bleed color blend
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    Lettering Tulips

    My family and I live in the country, so this time of year when the days are sunny and starting to warm, the outside beckons to me. It’s not enough to work at my desk and look outside. That just makes me feel cooped up. I want to be out there in the growing grass and warm breeze, 40s or lower 50s (I know, but it’s warm to me right now). Still … there is work to be done. During those times, I need a little more spring inside. In the last tutorial, we painted bright spring butterflies (if you missed it, you can find the tutorial here), so this…

  • Lettering Spring using the Layered Lettering Technique
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    Lettering Spring

    Spring is in the air! What a great time to work on some spring lettering or lettering some spring. We'll walk through a lettering spring tutorial focusing on letter drawing and letter design with a layered lettering technique. Sometimes lettering looks like calligraphy, sometimes it looks like painting, and sometimes it looks like drawing. Today, we’ll draw the word spring and layer celebrate in script on top of it to celebrate the coming of spring.