We accept Line, Pattern, Texture, Color, etc. as "Elements Of
Art", and it was our purpose to make "Words" be one as well.
Therefore, lettering would not "advertise" or "define" an idea.
This time, lettering would be thought of as the major element in
the composition. It might be a background, as shape makers or as
exciting, visual text enhancing a theme as storytelling. The
resultant painting, in watercolors, would employ whatever
lettering styles, methods of printing and application which
would express the content shapes desired. After a review of both
pen and brush calligraphy, we were ready to begin. Watercolors
were the selected medium permitting easy letter character
printing with pens or calligraphy brushes. Applied letters were
to be regarded as shapes: smaller letters to suggest distance
and larger ones for more important placement. The letters would
visually effect "texture", and their color and size would
characterize their spatial relationships.