Passport to Painting: How to paint retro-style travel poster art

by Susie West

Overview

Retro-style travel posters are optimistic, aspirational, and unabashedly fun. Here’s everything you need to produce your own!

Think of a travel poster, and you bring to mind summer vacations, happiness and fun. Perennially popular as wall art, their strong, designs and clean, flat colors are perfect for hobby artists to emulate.

A complete guide to producing travel-poster style art of your surroundings, this simple guide comprises:

Buying your acrylic paints, brushes, paper, and other tools and materials and how to use them.

Be guided through 6 specially designed projects:

* The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
* Mount Rainier National Park, WA
* Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Sydney Opera House, Australia
* The River Thames, Southbank, London
* Lisbon, Portugal

Guidance on composing a strong design, selecting colors and making sure your artwork pops

Susie’s suggestions, tips and techniques to paint your own travel poster, starting with collecting research, designing your layout and planning your painting,

Framing your poster and perhaps even having it printed on your own tea towel or morning coffee mug.

Including step-by-step projects of popular travel spots across the world, and packed with examples of Susie West’s inspiring artwork produce your own bold, bright artwork, to use as wall art, gift to friends, or to celebrate your hometown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782219569
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	09/06/2022
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.56(w) x 11.06(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Since 2015, Active artist and teacher Susie West has been working around the UK recreating the upbeat, retro charm of travel posters in the modern world.

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 (www.facebook.com/artistsusiewest), Twitter (twitter.com/artistsusiewest) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/artistsusiewest).

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Before You Set Out 12

Planning the Trip: 18

Designing your own travel poster

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 122

Afterword 124

Lettering Templates 125

Index 128