Joanne Sharpe’s Alphabet Soup Video Download

Description

A medley of artful letters come together for the perfect pot of Alphabet Soup in this workshop from Joanne Sharpe! Beginning with a lesson in where to find and keep inspiration for creating your own hand-lettering styles, Joanne then demonstrates how to make the most of vintage typefaces with her “Inspired Tracing Technique.” After your tracing warm-up, you’ll move right into the main ingredients of your soup — creating the letters! Joanne shows you, and student Cherie Haas, her step-by-step techniques for creating 12 different alphabets. Along the way, Joanne’s tips and tricks for making the most out of pens, markers and other writing utensils will provide you with inspiration for an infinite number of lettering styles!

Featuring

• Learn 12 unique lettering styles to embellish your handwriting
• Get tips for finding and using historical fonts as inspiration
• 93 minutes of premier workshop instruction

Watch a preview of Joanne Sharpe’s Alphabet Soup: 12 Fonts for Hand Lettering now:

• • Materials
    • Surface
    • Letter Love Inspiration Journal (composition book)
    • Strathmore 9” x 12” Bristol paper
    • Media
    • Colored pencils
    • Copic dual tip markers, black and variety of colors
    • Pitt Artist pens
    • Sakura Micron Graphic pen
    • Sharpe permanent black marker
    • Tombow markers (optional)
    • Uniball vision pen
    • Zig Writer pen
    • Other Tools
    • Eraser
    • Glue stick (optional)
    • Pencil
    • Pencil sharpener
    • Ruler (optional)
    • Tracing paper
    • Typeface samples for reference
    • Washi tape (optional)

About the Artist

Joanne Sharpe is a life-long creative artist dedicated to empowering women to embrace their own creativity through international workshops and innovative online classes that explore journaling, lettering, textiles and mixed-media art. She is the author of the best-selling book The Art of Whimsical Lettering, and a proud Bernina Artisan Ambassador. Her second book, The Art of Whimsical Stitching, was released in spring 2016. To find out more about Joanne and her art adventures, visit her website, JoanneSharpe.com.