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  • Graffiti Freestyle Lettering
  • Guest Traci Bautista shows you how to create graffiti-style text with calligraphy pens.
    From "Craft Lab"
    episode DCLB-106


    Guest Traci Bautista joins host Jennifer Perkins to demonstrate an unconventional use for calligraphy pens by showing a graffiti style text.

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    Project designed by Traci Bautista.

    Materials:

    various pens
    gel pens
    glitter markers
    paint pens
    white-out pens
    chisel tip Sharpies
    paper—painted paper, fusion dyed collage

    Graffiti Freestyle Lettering

    1. Write words and phrases with a chisel tipped marker varying the size of letters.

    2. Write more words with various size markers like glitter or gel pens.

    3. Accent words with flower doodles and sketches.

    4. Write with Spider Writers or dimensional glitter writers. Continue to layer words and write out you sentences in varied sizes.

    5. Write with white-out pens to add contrast over color and previous written words.

    Tip: Write randomly, free, in circles, turn the paper as you work to add to the freeform design.


    RESOURCES :

    Crayola Spider Writers, Markers and Metallic Crayons
    Website: www.crayola.com

    Ranger Industries
    Website: www.rangerink.com

    Brilliance and Opalite Pigment Ink Refills
    Tsukineko
    Website: www.tsukineko.com

    Jacquard-Lumiere Metallic Paint
    Rupert, Gibbon & Spider, Inc.
    Website: www.jacquardproducts.com

    Collage Unleashed
    by Traci Bautista
    ISBN: 1581808453
    North Light Books

    Colorations Liquid Watercolor and Pipettes
    We apologize no contact information is available.

    Golden Fluid Glazes and Heavy Body Acrylics
    Website: www.goldenpaints.com

    Art Glitter
    Art Institute
    Website: www.artglitter.com


    GUESTS :

    Traci Bautista
    Treic Designs, LLC
    Website: www.treicdesigns.com

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