Creative Lettering Workshop: Combining Art with Quotes in Mixed Media

by Lesley Riley

Artfully Express Your Love Affair With Quotes! Creative Lettering Workshop will guide your through expressive mixed-media techniques for creating words and phrases that complement your art and also visually express what your favorite quotes mean to you. Using instruction and ideas for handwriting and hand lettering, Lesley Riley (author of Inspirational Quotes Illustrated ) also encourages you to explore your visual vocabulary through stamping, image transfers, stenciling and more. Boldly express your most meaningful messages--in words and in art!

Genres: Art

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2015

Reviews

[Shelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think nearly everyone will be surprised – and most in a negative way – by this book. From other reviews, it seems that people generally (and justifiably!) expected this book to be about learning how to do cool lettering per se. Well, nope! It's actually really only about how to incorporate quotes into your artwork from a philosophical and compositional perspective, even if you're just using your own plain handwriting (in fact, most of the examples actually have totally unremarkable handwriting). But it teaches this very well, and the book definitely serves a niche need, but it suffers from a truly terrible name given its content.

So, get one of the other 942 gazillion books on calligraphy or actual creative lettering, but then maybe revisit this one later for tips and tricks on effectively incorporating the quotes you can now beautifully render into larger mixed media works.

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this book missed its mark as a "Creative Lettering Workshop" and potentially should have been named "Cool Lettering Designs the Author Made and their Basic Instructions". I was frustrated when I picked up this book to assist with a lettering project I was about to start, only to find this had nothing useful for me. Most people in the digital world get over-exposure to examples of mixed media and quote combinations, so this doesn't really fill the need it claims to. I skimmed through it, but didn't find anything interesting enough to spend time reading.

[Annie · Rating 2 out of 5]

While this book offers interesting walk throughs of individual designs by the author, I was hoping for more guidance on how the principles of design apply to hand lettering. Only four pages were devoted to this, and they simply went through the principles without going in depth into how they apply to lettering. Not the book for me.