Letter Art

In my Facebook group -

Zentangle All Around - 

we are working on letter art this week. 

I set up a Pinterest board showing different

types of lettering - some fun, some serious, 

some decorative. Just examples - you can

see them here. 

I chose this page of letters to work with.

 I knew that I wanted to work in an arc,

so I set up two lines in pencil

and roughly divided the space into the

number of letters I was going to use.

 Next, I sketched out the letters in pencil -

knowing that I would eventually erase the lines.

 Once I was happy with the placement,

I outlined the letters with a sharpie fine liner.

I elongated the top legs of the letter K

and put a spear through the crossbar of the F.

 Happy with that, I erased my pencil lines

and began tangling some of the letters.

 For me, this was the difficult part.

Deciding what patterns to use in the letters.

Where I made mistakes, I just thickened the

lines. Yes, it is supposed to look like that.

Thank you :).

 I wanted the letters to look like they were floating

over the background, so I drew some

ribbon lines and began adding some airways -

that's the flower looking designs along

the outside.

I used Schmincke watercolors to add some color.

(And I just noticed that I forgot about the arc

and made those ribbon lines straight.

Oh well. The best laid plans of mice and men.

Or some such nonsense.)

Once I had all the color added that I wanted, I added shading around each letter - to give the letters that 'floaty' look!  Super easy and it didn't take very long. My final step will be to frame it and mail it to a special little Frankie that I know.
What kind of letter art might you work on today? Feel free to check out that Pinterest board linked in pink and see what ideas you might come up with.