Brush Lettering: An Instructional Manual Of Western Brush Lettering

by Marilyn Reaves, Eliza Schulte

Even if you've never held a brush in your hand, you can master the graceful art of fine calligraphy with the expert guidance of Brush Lettering. Brush calligraphy offers unlimited potential for creating an array of hand-lettered treasures. Now you can produce beautiful invitations, greeting cards, and certificates, distinctive stationery, unique posters and brochures, innovative logotypes, professional-quality headlines, elegant fabric designs, and much more. Marilyn Reaves and Eliza Schulte take you step by step through the techniques of brush lettering with the edged brush and pointed brush, dispensing invaluable advice on tools, media, and design. For beginners, students, hobbyists, or anyone involved in graphic design, Brush Lettering is a complete and authoritative how-to-manual. (8 1/2 X 11, 176 pages, b&w photos, illustrations, diagrams)

Genres: Reference, Art

176 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1993

Reviews

[Cassidy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an invaluable reference for anyone who wants to learn brush lettering technique. The authors cover every detail of how to choose, care for, and wield your brushes; what kinds of painting mediums work best with which brushes and surfaces; and all of the hand/brush movements involved in forming strokes both basic and advanced. Reading this has improved my lettering skills immeasurably, and given me a much more confident hand with the brush.

The particular lettering styles demonstrated in the book all tend toward the calligraphic, and they all feel fairly refined, old-fashioned, feminine, and a bit twee, even the ones described as "casual". This is a bit disappointing, since the same brush techniques could in principle be applied to a much wider variety of voices and styles. But that task, I guess, is left as an exercise for the reader.