From us here at Lark Lettering we hope you have a happy holiday season filled with love, light and laughter.
As a gift from us to you, download your copy of this Merry and Bright print! It looks glorious printed as a holiday card or even sent digitally.
May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
This holiday season, we’re excited to bring you a series of events at the Daniel Smith Fine Art Supply Store in Seattle. If you haven’t had the pleasure of going to Daniel Smith yet, this will be a real treat for you! It’s a warehouse full of art supplies and the kindest human beings, making it my go-to for art supplies in town. Their watercolors are simply sumptuous.
Watercolors are my favorite medium to letter with — they give you so much freedom, the color combinations are limitless, and the texture has a certain je ne se quois that is unparalleled.
On Sunday, November 18 from 11am to 12:30pm, we’ll be leading a free Watercolor Lettering demo, introducing you to our favorite watercolor supplies — paper, brushes, and paints — and demonstrate how they work to create a lovely finished project.
Then on Saturday, December 1 from 10:30 – 2:30pm, we’re going to teach a Watercolor Lettering workshop. During the class, you’ll learn how to mix watercolor paints with water and blending colors together to achieve your favorite colors. Then we’ll explore modern calligraphy techniques and spend the rest of the class learning a playful brush lettering alphabet using paint brush and watercolors. Since this class is one hour longer than usual, you’ll have extra time to work on a lettering project with your newfound watercolor lettering skills!
These will be our last public lettering events of the year, so we hope you’ll join us! Find details and register here for the free Watercolor Lettering demo and Watercolor Lettering workshop.
If you follow Lark Lettering on Instagram or Facebook, you may have noticed that our aesthetic has been a bit bright lately. We’ve been conducting an experiment where we letter the rainbow. At the beginning of the year we began with white — easy enough — and then merged into yellow after falling the sunny hue in Spain this winter.
We’ll be moving into the color orange next as we continue to letter our way through the rainbow. Join us for this next Lark Lettering Challenge and use hashtag #lettertherainbow and #larkletteringchallenge. We’d love to see what you’re working on!
Here’s a few of our other favorite yellow pieces from the Letter the Rainbow yellow series:
Join us in the Lark Lettering Challenge and Letter the Rainbow orange with us!
Mark your calendars! Our monthly Seattle Lettering Club is happening next Thursday, April 12 at Sweetgrass Food Co. It’s a good opportunity to dust off your supplies and reboot your practice once more.
For those of you who have been asking about spring classes, our next Lettering Workshop is on Saturday, April 7 at Fran’s Chocolates and will be all about brush lettering. This is a beginner level class (stay tuned for more intermediate classes!) and we will be learning lettering techniques with brush markers. We will go through the lowercase alphabet together. To celebrate the arrival of spring, you can save 15% off spring classes through Sunday, March 25! We also have a watercolor lettering class in May. Details and registration here!
Here’s a sneak peak at Fran’s Chocolates headquarters in Georgetown:
Class will be held at the grand table below:
In other news, I spent 10 minutes at DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials yesterday (my local go-to for art supplies) looking for the perfect yellow brush marker. Apparently it’s hard to translate yellow into a marker, but much easier to capture in a paint. In case you’re wondering, it’s Faber-Castell USA Dark Chrome Yellow 109.
For the last few years we have been hosting a monthly Calligraphy meetup to foster the art form in the Seattle community and make friends — because loneliness is real and art is more fun together. Here’s what our gals were working on during the February connect at Sweetgrass Food Co.
This could be you. Come join us! Our next monthly gathering is tomorrow, Thursday, March 15. Register here!
Now that Daylight Savings Time has gifted us an extra hour of sunlight each day, it feels like spring is just around the corner! Here are our upcoming spring lettering workshops and meetup.
Our monthly gathering is a great opportunity to catch up on homework (ahem, #homwork), make new friends, and create space to create. There’s no cost, so come grab a smoothie and letter alongside other creatives.
Learn the art of brush calligraphy in this comprehensive (and most popular) class! The Intro to Brush Lettering class utilizes the Tombow dual brush markers and will introduce you to the necessary pressure techniques that will help in creating thick and thin lines, then dive into the lowercase alphabet.
In Watercolor Lettering you’ll learn lettering with the medium of watercolor paints and paintbrush and create beautiful ombre lettering art. We’ll learn the basics of watercolors, the pressure/release technique, and an upright script lettering font.
Since studying with Gemma O’Brien at Letterwest last summer, I feel like my mind has been opened to different ways to letter and communicate visually through type. When I was working on my project in her class and hit a wall, she gave me some advise to add an in-line to add depth. So (confession time), even though I never wrapped that project, I integrated it here!
While I was in the south of Spain recently, I had the chance to attend a dance festival where I danced for 4 hours every day. Of course that wasn’t the plan — I had modestly signed up for 2 hours a day, but in Andalucia, flamenco studios are as common as yoga studios are here, so I couldn’t resist a few extra classes. As a result, I wore out the soles of my shoes and had to buy a replacement pair… or two.
How marvelous it is to live in your body instead of your head! We walked everywhere, took long lunches, ate more than one dinner a day, saw shows every night, and lived slow. Europeans do it right with their life balance.
Where are you traveling to this year?
Hi, you’ve reached Sarah with Lark Lettering. If I haven’t responded to your email, it’s because I’m on vacation in Spain, falling in love with the color yellow and dancing my heart out. Leave a message and I’ll get back to you later in March.
Calligraphy has been deeply embedded in the Chinese culture for millennia and I honor this part of my heritage through my continued practice. It is a delight to carry on this tradition and share it!
Happy Lunar New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choy!