F is for FILIGREE

When I think of filigree, I think of very intricate looping designs created with fine metal wire. I also think of learning cursive writing as a child, and embellishing every letter with curliques. (I did not get a good handwritng grade because of the extra add ons.) So I chose to turn by natural inclination to draw whenever I could to an art project.

Project: Filigreed Letters

Materials: calligraphy pens, paper, metallic paint makers

Method: Draw a letter the size of the paper you choose. You can use a marker or calligraphy pen. Start curlique doodles over the letters. Add overlays of color with markers.Cut and mat on colored paper.

Art Center: markers, metallic pens, calligraphy alphabets, examples of embellished letters from books, alphabet letters in many styles for tracing, pipecleaners to bend into letters