Learn hand lettering techniques and create your own spooky poison bottle labels!

In this 90 minute workshop you will learn the basics of hand lettering, and practice drawing vintage lettering styles, before being guided through creating your own hand lettered Halloween decorations. We will be making apothecary style labels to turn bottles and jars into potion and poison containers! You can choose to make paper labels and glue them onto the containers, or to letter directly onto the containers - you will need different materials depending on which option you choose.

Materials you will need for this workshop:

• graph paper or lined paper

• pencil

• ruler

• eraser

• any bottles or jars that you want to decorate (I like to repurpose glass drink bottles and jam jars for this; if you'd like to do the same, this requires some prep time cleaning them and removing their original labels)

For the paper labels

• textured paper for the labels

• PVA glue or double sided tape to stick the labels to the bottles

• markers or flatliner pens

For lettering directly onto the bottles/jars

• acrylic paint pens or chalk markers

• masking tape to mark guidelines / edges of the design

The workshop will take place online, over Zoom. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the date, along with a PDF worksheet. If you have any questions feel free to email me.

Workshop duration: 1.5 hours. £15 per person. Open to beginners, no previous lettering experience required.

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