Lettering From A to Z: 12 Styles & Awesome Projects for a Creative Life (Calligraphy, Printmaking, Hand Lettering) - Softcover

Moore, Phawnda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1642503827 ISBN 13: 9781642503821

Publisher: TMA Press, 2020

Synopsis

Spark Your Creativity with Calligraphy

“I found Lettering from A to Z to be an open door, inviting me to play and create in entirely new ways.” —Sherry Richert Belul, author of Say it Now and founder of Simply Celebrate

Winner Indie Book Award for Gift/Specialty/Novelty Book in 2021
Winner 15th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards (2021) for Crafts & Hobbies
#1 New Release in Handwriting Reference, Mixed Media, and Printmaking

Lettering artist Phawnda Moore has been teaching calligraphy and design for 25 years. An award-winning author, she steps into beginning students’ shoes to select content, address anticipated questions, and offer solutions to the unexpected yet inevitable problems that are encountered in hand lettering.

Your creative life will be enriched with step-by-step tutorials “from A to Z.” Written in conversational narrative, this full-color book includes more than 200 images of Phawnda’s professional work, published articles, and guidance from her class demos to make beautiful projects. Blending traditional design principles and modern tools, it inspires you to find your own style.

Phawnda's instruction includes:

• 12 styles (Uncial calligraphy, Italic calligraphy, script calligraphy, brush lettering, faux calligraphy, rainbow lettering, monoline letters, handwriting and drawn letters)
• Customized, printable practice sheets
• Recommended writing tools, papers, sources, printing tips
• Layout, color, and design basics
• Lettering projects for youngsters
• Tips on how to organize your studio space
• Tips on sharing your skills in teaching, business, events, home, garden, and community
• Illustrating with calligraphy tools
• Projects to make handmade birthday cards, holiday cards, journals of your life, and easy-to-design art books

If you enjoyed Hand Lettering 101, The Lost Art of Handwriting, or Hand Lettering for Relaxation, then it’s time to grab a copy of Lettering from A to Z and reconnect to your natural creativity.

About this title

About the Author

Phawnda Moore has been creating with words and images since the mid-1980s. Her first lettering book was selected as a winner in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

She was a contributing writer on Empty Easel for 3 years and has written, edited, and designed more than 100 published books, blogs, and articles including for Bound & Lettered, Letter Arts Review, Paper & Ink Arts, Mendocino Arts and TombowUSA. She’s a member of the online calligraphy group Scribbled Lives and several U.S. calligraphy guilds.

Phawnda received national awards for her creative work at county and state offices of education, including a Clarion Award from The Association for Women in Communications and two from the National School Public Relations Association. Her original alphabet, Letters by Phawnda, was licensed by Chameleon Art Products in the U.K.

Formally trained as a graphic designer, Phawnda’s organic lettering art has been printed on apparel, home decor, wedding invitation suites and canvas banners for fundraisers. She has taught calligraphy in-person for 25 years, where students from 9 to 90 inspire each other as they mix and mingle letters, colors and shapes.

Phawnda lives in beautiful Northern California with her husband, Ron.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Greetings

It is said that life is more meaningful, and we live longer, if we find something we’re keenly interested in and connect to it. I hope that’s true for all of us.

As a calligrapher, writer, editor and instructor, my life paths lead to connections with kindred spirits. I’m grateful for many experiences of working together as we created art in words and images. Writing Lettering from A to Z: 12 Styles & Awesome Projects for a Creative Life has allowed me to revisit those memories and include some of them for you.

My instructors taught me patience because good lettering takes time. The most important thing is to slow down, get comfortable, and just begin. In quiet solitude, focus, wonder, experiment, seek your own path, and enjoy the process! There’s a kind of magic in this: we grow, learn new things, and discover who we are.

I have observed these benefits for many years as I’ve had the pleasure to teach mostly retired professionals. Their questions and ideas are reflected in my workshops and in this book. Once a commercial graphic designer for printed projects, I now have the privilege to share some of that experience and work on a personal level with the nicest people I’ve ever met.

Perhaps you have a stack of blank cards or have saved a loved one’s handwriting―and now you want to send keepsakes of your own. This book is written for you, beginning to intermediate creatives, who seek traditional influence and practical instruction to make everyday things beautiful and memorable. Hand lettering can heal, celebrate, send love, recognize, mourn, and let be. In the big picture, these are all opportunities that matter in the gift of life.

I hope Lettering from A to Z: 12 Styles & Awesome Projects for a Creative Life enlightens, educates, and encourages you. Think of it as a journey; start and stop with me along the way . . . Let’s begin!

Edition details

• Publisher: TMA Press
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 1642503827
• ISBN 13: 9781642503821
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224