Passport to Painting - Susie West

Passport to Painting

How to Paint Retro-Style Travel Poster Art

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Buch | Softcover
128 Seiten
2022
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78221-956-9 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
Retro-style travel posters are optimistic, aspirational and unabashedly fun. This book teaches everything the reader needs to produce a contemporary twist on the travel posters of the past.
Stylish retro travel posters bring to mind summer holidays, happiness and fun. Perennially popular as wall art, their strong designs and clean, flat colours are perfect for hobby artists to emulate.



A complete guide to producing your own travel-poster art, this book includes guidance on composing a strong design, selecting colours to make sure your artwork pops, and adding lettering for a picture-perfect finished poster.



Learn to create key poster elements such as clouds, skies, water and architecture, and discover how to add your own stylized lettering. There are six striking international projects to complete, or you can use your newfound skills to celebrate your own home town or treasured place. This book is packed with examples of Susie West’s inspiring artwork and a short history of travel posters.



Since 2015, Susie West has been working her way around the UK recreating the upbeat, retro charm of travel posters in the modern world. This book shares her techniques and secrets for producing fun, charming artwork. Suitable for beginners, this is a great way into art for those who want to develop their skills, or for experienced artists wanting to try something new.

Susie West trained as a graphic designer. While stuck on a train, she passed the time doodling the little rows of houses through the misted-up windows. These little rows of houses got stuck in her head and she painted them. She began selling her paintings of these quirky made-up village scenes which eventually evolved into a full-time business of travelling around Britain’s real cities, towns and villages for a range of travel poster prints. Today, Susie is kept busy in her home in Leatherhead, Surrey, UK. When not producing her lovely acrylic paintings of cities, towns and villages, she is exhibiting at craft fairs and shows, or selling her prints. To learn more about Susie's work visit her website www.artistsusiewest.com, or follow her continuing painting travels on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @artistsusiewest

Introduction 6, Before you set out 12, Planning the trip: Designing your own travel poster 18, Getting started 36, Adding lettering 66



Projects 72



Amsterdam Canals 74

Sydney Opera House 80

London Tower Bridge 88

Mount Rainier National Park, USA 96

Lisbon Trams 104

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 112



Onward travel 120, Afterword 124, Lettering templates 125, Index 128

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 400 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort Tunbridge Wells
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 280 mm
Gewicht 564 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
ISBN-10 1-78221-956-0 / 1782219560
ISBN-13 978-1-78221-956-9 / 9781782219569
Zustand Neuware
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