2. Load a brush with watercolor paint and apply it to the top of the letter.
4. In other letters, use the bullet tip to fill the letters with dashes going in a variety of directions. Combine dots and dashes within a letter for even more variation.
2. Using black permanent pen, thicken the letters by reshaping and adding weight to random areas.
1. Lightly pencil the outline of a hollow alphabet if you need to. Using a paintbrush, write the letter of the alphabet with clean water, creating a water path. It will take a few tries to gauge just the right amount of water. You don’t want too much or too little, so experiment and practice first.
Watercolor Ombré
The style of artist of Georges Seurat is a playful inspiration for an artful alphabet font. Using dots and dashes of color in the impressionistic pointillism style creates an optical treat as the energetic filler for hand-drawn letters.
- Black Platinum Carbon pen
- Colored pencil
- Eraser
- Pencil
- Prismacolor markers
- Watercolor paints and brushes
- Watercolor paper
- Water-soluble markers
Study famous artists and their signature styles, techniques and characteristics to create new letters. This sampler imitates the typical colors, bulbous shapes and moving line forms in the art of Henri Matisse. What other artists could inspire letterforms?
Create some dimension and drama using a basic chisel-tip-marker font with gray shadows along each letter. This bold hand lettering technique is super simple yet always impressive.
- Bristol paper
- Pencil
- Prismacolor markers
2. Erase the letterforms leaving just the linked flower design. Add color to the letters using markers, watercolor or colored pencil.
- Black uni-ball Vision pen
- Bristol paper or cardstock
- Eraser
- Pencil
- Art journaling
- Card-making
- Planners and bullet journals
- Scrapbooking
- Decorative invitations and announcements
- Envelopes
- Canvas wall art and paintings
- Room décor
- Party and celebration décor
- Handmade gifts and wrapping paper
- Cake decorating
- Signs and banners
Matisse Inspired
Create some dimension and drama using a basic chisel-tip-marker font with gray shadows along each letter. This bold hand lettering technique is super simple yet always impressive.
- Black Platinum Carbon pen
- Colored pencil
- Eraser
- Pencil
- Prismacolor markers
- Watercolor paints and brushes
- Watercolor paper
- Water-soluble markers
1. Create guidelines that are 1-inch (25mm) tall. Inside the lines, hold the Elegant Writer medium-sized calligraphy pen at a 45-degree angle and write the upper and lowercase alphabet.
Cursive alphabets can feature connected, italic, or looped letters. They can have different slope degree, be more curly, curvy or sharp. Once you have selected your favorite style, copy the letters from your name, and practice them.
Get an insight into cursive script, by becoming familiar with its benefits, and with some professional tips on how to draw and connect the letters correctly.
If you want everything done in seconds, use an online letter generator that will help you customize your name written in cursive.
- improved hand-eye coordination
- better motor memory.
- keeping your mind sharp
5 Benefits of Cursive Writing (Reasons to Teach it!)
Truth be said, it takes some time to find your style, and practice it until your hand gets familiar with it, but in the end you will find the whole process a funny game.
If you want to learn faster how to write your name in cursive style, you should get to know it closer.
Cursive writing is like the fingerprint of a person, always unique and never identical to someone else’s. This is why, in penmanship there is a lot of types of cursive writing, and approaches to drawing letters in this style.
#1 New Release in Reading Education!
- Title: Bright Beginnings and Happy Endings
This issue of confidence cannot be overstated. All writers, especially students, need to learn to write with an authority and assurance that allows their ideas to flow and that draws their reader in. Through the combination of my encouragement and guidance, my students begin to accept that their words have power and that their insights have merit.
I use the following definitions for conclusions and titles so my students have a clear understanding of the purpose and potential of a strong opening and closing to their writing.
Great Writers are Great Thinkers
After their final title and conclusion choice has been made, students can develop their initial idea into a fleshed out concluding paragraph that also contains a connection to an effective title. Of course, the full meaning and impact of the link between the title and the conclusion may not become fully apparent to the reader until the very end of their essay, and this extra level of depth only adds to the creative experience of writing. Suddenly, the craft, artistry, and importance of true essay writing become even clearer to my students, and their personal investment increases accordingly.
Have confidence that kids will not hesitate to tell you when they no longer need to depend on certain strategies—and some will simply forge ahead and spread their wings without a word of warning or request for permission! It is not that any of them do not still need your guidance, support, and feedback, it is that they now need their teacher on a progressively more complex and profound level.
Enrichment activities should never be reserved for only our stellar students. Students who struggle also benefit from the validation and resulting confidence that come from teachers who sincerely honor each child’s personal viewpoint. If you want your students to speak and write like experts, then value their expertise and provide them with frequent opportunities to express themselves and refine their voice.
I really loved this. I have so many note books I don’t know what to do with.
This has hit me going crazy I have so many journals !! Now I know what to do with them
Thanks, Kristi
A gardening journal is wonderful for folks who have a green thumb. Keep a detailed list of your houseplants, patio plants, or food garden plants. Create a schedule so you know exactly when your monstera was last watered or when your string of pearls was fertilized. If you want to keep your green babies healthy and happy, a gardening journal is an excellent choice.
I started doing this notebook my husband would ask me, “Well, who came last year and what did we eat?” I did save my scrap papers of planning notes — somewhere! — and came up with this idea and was able to put ten years’ worth of party plans into my binder. It’s a life saver.
30. Nature Journal
Health is a super important part of life, so dedicate a blank notebook to the cause! Keep a log of everything you eat, how much water you drink, and even write down a permanent grocery list to take with you to the store. If you are into calorie counting, keep that information in your food journal too. It’s the perfect way to watch what you eat!
Thanks so much Ilene! You can find some more information on starting a blog here: https://littlecoffeefox.com/ultimate-blogging-guide-newbies/
Have a blog? Make plans and track your success in a notebook! It’s a fantastic way to stay on track and keep yourself organized. In fact, I have a whole post about how to use a pen and paper notebook to plan for your blog!
Thankfully, after a few years of journal exploration, I’ve found dozens of ways to put beautiful blank notebooks to good use. If you are ready to feel inspired to take on your journal collection, then grab your favorite pen and let’s jump in!