1 Croeso

'Croeso': Welsh for 'Welcome' here where I live in the Welsh Marches. (And, please, any Welsh speakers out there, excuse my pronunciation...)

I was asked to make this sign for a local school and I thought it would give us a chance to look at a 'down and dirty', easy way of making a big sign - it only took me about 2 hours from start to finish!

I guess you could call the result relief lettering but it's not really in a technical sense, it's more that the background is textured, ploughed up.

Whatever, this way of working suits big, bold, simple letters; I'll put a few more thoughts in the download. And you needn't stop at letters: any shapes will do; think in terms of silhouettes and borders.

In this introductory video, I look at the lettering itself and draw it directly onto my wood.

The Book:

'Buchstaben' by Kurt Koch, Eulenkopf-Verlag [Eulenkopft Publishers]

This book is in German but the illustrations pretty much speak for themselves. I put the title into a search engine and found copies readily available in the UK, USA and many other countries.