The brush is the most flexible and the most difficult of all lettering tools. Used on rough or absorbent papers it can express a wide range of emotion and drama, or it can be tamed for highly readable and stylized looks with a crisp edge. This collection shows a wide range of projects for the movie industry, publishing, packaging and advertising. I have over a hundred brushes and a stack of various papers five feet high in my studio. Depending on the kind of paper, the brush and the medium used, a slightly different effect emerges each time. To work with the brush you have to be in the moment — there is no place to hide.

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