Brush Lettering with Watercolor
Discover your unique brush lettering style, gain confidence with your brush handling skills and learn how to blend watercolor like a pro.
Do any of these sound familiar?
Thick to Thin, begin (yet) again
You get that brush lettering has transitions of thick to thin. You’ve tried it, but something just doesn’t add up each time. That transition area is a pain to keep consistent, especially with a brush.
Confidence, what’s that?
You’ve watched tutorials, followed all of the directions perfectly, but your outcome just doesn’t look like theirs. You’ve invested a lot of time to get it right, but it just isn’t working.
Bipolar Brush Tips
OMGOSH. You just want to change freaking directions. But your seemingly bipolar brush tip has other plans in mind. You’re not sure if you’ve got the right angle, if your brush tip is even moving the way it should and now it looks nothing like you wanted.
Watercoloring / Watercolor-ick
Ok! Practiced something a zillion times. It’s finally go time. Got the watercolor paper ready. Got the brush. Ummm...color. ok, color. WHICH COLORS?!
It’s time to defeat the struggles that stopped you from beginning, paused your progress, or bruised your confidence.
Create Beautiful Brush Lettering with Watercolor
Find your style, master the basics, and rock your brush lettering like a pro
Stop using the wrong supplies
Use the included bonus master supply list (clickable pdf) to read up on supplies and choose what’s right for you and your projects.
Prioritize the process
If you were ever unsure of where to begin, which order to create your strokes or how to get your watercolors right the first time, watch the full process in chronological order with complete video walkthroughs.
Get to the Core
Watch a full tutorial on the 6 core strokes of brush lettering, then immediately put them into practice with the 6 core strokes practice sheets. Print as many as you need, practice as much as you’d like.
Lettering Guide Me
Use the included 4 blank lettering guides and style inspiration pdf to establish your own style based on letterform anatomy and structure. Step by step videos included for every part of the process!
Paintbrush *and* Waterbrush tutorials
We walk through the differences, which brush is suited best for each technique, and how to use each brush for every blend and practice exercise throughout the entire class. You’re good to go no matter which you choose ;)
Color Combos with a side of YES
I share all of my color combo tips and the strategies behind them *plus* a bonus color combo cheat sheet is included with the class! The cheat sheet includes examples of each combo, so choosing color is never an issue again.
Why this Class is Different
Comprehensive Brush Training
Unlike other brush lettering classes, this class is highly focused on creating both traditional paintbrush lettering *and* waterbrush lettering. Learn the core strokes and use the included exercise sheets to practice. Learn 4 different techniques for developing your own personal style and use the included style inspiration sheets to following along immediately. Learn the exact areas to focus on to improve your brush lettering the quickest.
Why this Class is Different
In-Depth Color Blending Techniques
When you’re feeling confident with your brush, start applying watercolor! Use the included color combo cheat sheets to get a jump start on eye catching combinations and learn how to choose and execute beautiful color schemes from this point forward. Tube, pan sets and concentrated watercolors are shown for every technique.
Make all of these in the class!
What You’ll Learn
Supply options to help you choose what’s best for you and your projects
The differences between using a paintbrush and waterbrush with lettering
Foundational strokes and letterform structure
4 methods for establishing your own unique lettering style
What to look for to improve your lettering the quickest
How to choose and use the best color combinations with your lettering
Multi-color alternating letters and one color blending techniques for tube, pan sets + concentrated watercolors
3 Additional watercolor blending techniques: duo color fade, color drop, top and bottom blends (Lovelier Letters + Master Class tiers)
Brush Lettering depth and shadow effects (Master Class)
How to use masking fluid and metallic watercolors; how to apply iridescent effects to your lettering (Master Class)
How to convert your lettering to digital and vector format for continuous use (Master Class)
Your Instructor
Hey! I’m Teela and I help creatives build and improve their digital skills to open new opportunities.
If you’re familiar with Every Tuesday, then you know my love for lettering, design and illustration runs deep. In fact, in the last 7 years, I’ve taught over 250,000 students and my tutorials on YouTube have accumulated over 20 million views.
I love sharing what I’ve learned throughout my career and motivating others to create something new every week.
The class comes in 3 options, so you can choose what's most important to you:
Option 1
Master Class Curriculum
Bonus Class: Digital Watercolor Lettering
Option 2
Lovelier Letters Course Curriculum
Option 3
The Essentials Course Curriculum
Paintbrush Alphabet Practice Sheets
Full uppercase script, lowercase script and numbers paintbrush-specific practice sheets with color coded stroke orders. Full row of the same traceable letter for practice; blank practice row included below each letter. $20 value (Lovelier Letters + Master Class tiers only).
Waterbrush Alphabet Practice Sheets
Full uppercase script, lowercase script and numbers waterbrush-specific practice sheets with color coded stroke orders. Full row of the same traceable letter for practice; blank practice row included below each letter. $20 value (Lovelier Letters + Master Class tiers only).
Paintbrush Core Strokes Practice Sheets
Practice the 6 core strokes of brush lettering with these paintbrush-specific exercise sheets! Includes traceable strokes, practice exercises and letters listed with each stroke.
Waterbrush Core Strokes Practice Sheets
Practice the 6 core strokes of brush lettering with these waterbrush-specific exercise sheets! Includes traceable strokes, practice exercises and letters listed with each stroke.
Blank Lettering Guides
Explore your unique style of lettering and stay consistent with these 4 different blank lettering guides: basic, italic, dot grid and full grid!
Master Supply List Clickable PDF
If you’ve ever been unsure what the right supplies are, this clickable list has you covered. Tight supply budget? No problem - check out the second page for some budget friendly alternatives.
Color Combo Cheat Sheets
Struggling with your color choices? This pack includes 40 unique combos which will make worrying about color a thing of the past.
Style Inspiration PDF
Utilizing style inspirations help to advance your personal style in the direction you’d most like to go. Use the included one, or create your own based off of it to use with the methods shown in the class.
Bonus Class: Digital Watercolor Lettering
Digitizing your watercolor lettering is a way to ensure its quality is retained forever. In this full bonus class, you’ll learn proper scan settings, color adjusting and removing backgrounds in Photoshop and best practices for vectorizing in Illustrator. No previous knowledge of the programs is required to fully follow along! $47 value (Master Class only, will need Photoshop and/or Illustrator).
Master Class
Experiment with a new style using the alphabet practice sheets, then go full zen mode into 6 watercolor blending techniques, masking fluid, metallics and iridescent tutorials. In the bonus class, learn how to preserve your lettering by converting it to digital following best practices for scanning, color adjusting in Photoshop and vectorization in Illustrator.
- Access to 44 HD step-by-step videos
- Lifetime access to the class
- Unlimited Updates
- 6 watercolor blending techniques
- Bonus lessons: masking fluid, metallics, iridescent effects
- Bonus class: Digital Watercolor Lettering
- Core Strokes Practice Sheets (for paintbrush and waterbrush)
- Alphabet Practice Sheets (for paintbrush and waterbrush)
- Master Supply List clickable pdf
- Style Inspiration printable
- Color Combo Cheat Sheets
- Blank Lettering Guides
LOVELIER LETTERS
Add extra style and variation to your lettering using alphabet practice sheets while still keeping the basics in mind. Get extra colorful by exploring 5 different watercolor blending techniques.
- Access to 29 HD step-by-step videos
- Lifetime access to the class
- Unlimited Updates
- 4 methods for establishing your style
- 5 watercolor blending techniques
- Master Supply List clickable pdf
- Alphabet Practice Sheets (for paintbrush and waterbrush)
- Core Strokes Practice Sheets (for paintbrush and waterbrush)
- Style Inspiration printable
- Color Combo Cheat Sheets
- Blank Lettering Guides
The Essentials
Focus on your lettering form and structure. Practice methods for establishing and perfecting your own personal brush lettering style. Finish up by diving into one color and multi-color blending.
- Access to 22 HD step-by-step videos
- Lifetime access to the class
- Unlimited Updates
- 8 videos covering the basics
- 2 watercolor blending techniques
- 4 methods for establishing your style
- Color Combo Cheat Sheets
- Master Supply List clickable pdf
- Style Inspiration printable
- Blank Lettering Guides
- Core Strokes Practice Sheets (for paintbrush and waterbrush)