Adding Color

I have decided to add color to my letter patterns. I am still not sure how I will present them.  A conundrum. These letters are clockwise J, K, M, N, O, P.

Patterns in Letters

Here are a few more of my patterns:

Letter e

Letter f

Letter g

Letter h

Letter i

Patterns in Letters

I am currently taking classes in pattern making so I thought it would be fun to do my anything goes alphabet as patterns. I think letterforms are the perfect vehicle for pattern making.

 a

 b

c

d

my place alphabet .....

Hello everyone,

I have been such a poor blogger this year and just realised that I posted on my last letters of my first alphabet on my tracemarks blog and not here.  One I have finished the book I will make sure to be back here posting on the results.

A beginning has been made on my second alphabet - my PLACE - which will literally be about the place in which I live.  I am working on larger pieces in the same vein, or will be in the future, as I have in mind a large project on "My Place".  You will even recognise some of this imagery in my latest collaboration with Fiona.  

I am showing you the preparatory work at this point because I don't want to actually emboss the letters onto each piece until have have done all twenty six letters as I am going to make a quilt book and want to arrange the pieces before I decide what letter I will attribute to them.  Because this will be a hanging piece, I will need to work both front and back of my little squares.

Here is my beginning!  I will post about the middle and the end too!

This year has seen me a little time poor (probably because I am working on so many things in the studio) and though I have not been leaving comments, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching all the wonderful alphabets emerge.

Premier Projet - Callie - Lieu / Place

Bonjour,

Je vous prie d'excuser mon retard à démarrer, j'ai eu du mal à trouver du temps, même les petites vacances ont été difficiles pour la calligraphie...
I apologize for my late start, I struggled to find time, even small holidays have been difficult for calligraphy ...
Tout d'abord j'avais pensé à utiliser des cartes géographiques comme fond... Mais je n'ai pas retrouvé le livre des routes que j'avais jadis... Et puis comme j'ai eu de retard de fabrication, l'idée a été utilisée avant que je me réveille...
First I thought about using maps as background ... But I have not found the book of the roads that I had once ... And as I have of late manufacture, idea has been used before I wake ...
Ensuite, je me suis dit qu'il était dommage de ne pas profiter de ce projet pour faire un petit tour de France, histoire de découvrir des endroits que je ne connais pas, ou de faire découvrir aux participants des endroits qu'ils ne connaissent pas... Donc je me suis dis que j'allais travailler avec des photos... Le problème restait encore de ne pas trop occulter les photos avec les lettres... et de trouver des photos libres de droits des dits endroits...
Then I thought it was a shame not to take advantage of this project to make a small tour de France history, discover places that I do not know, or to introduce participants to places they know not ... So I told myself that I would work with photos ... The problem was still not too obscure pictures with the letters ... and find royalty free photos of the said places ...
Mais c'était compter sans les "choses à faire" et les "emplois du temps bien remplis"...que ce soit pendant l'année scolaire ou même les vacances... Et pendant les vacances d'été, j'ai eu une autre idée, et davantage de temps pour la réaliser...  Mais avec tout ce retard, j'ai du faire tout l'alphabet d'un coup...

But that was reckoning without the "things to do" and "schedules well filled" ... whether during the school year or even the holidays ... And during the summer vacation, I had another idea, and more time to achieve it ... But with all the delay, I had to do the whole alphabet of a sudden ...

J'ai commencé par réaliser les carrés... Le papier épais a été tartiné d'eau au pinceau. Puis j'ai jeté des gouttes d'encres de différentes nuances bleutées pour figurer les "mers". Elles ont diffusé. Quand ce fut un peu sec, j'ai ajouté des gouttes d'encre "marron irisé". Quand l'ensemble fut complètement sec (et vraiment sec), j'ai tracé tous les contours "marrons" avec un feutre noir fin... Histoire de figurer des "îles" ou des "terres"...
I began to realize the squares ... The paper was thick spreadable water brush. Then I threw drops of inks of different bluish shades to include the "seas." They circulated. When it was a little dry, I added ink "brown iridescent" drops. When all was completely dry (and really dry), I sketched out the contours "brown" with a black fineliner ... History include "islands" or "land" ...

Ensuite j'ai pu calligraphier les lettres, dans une écriture "Chancelière" afin de figurer les écritures "italiques" des cartes...
Then I could calligraphy letters in writing "Chancellor" to include the scriptures "italics" cards ...

 

 

 

Voilà une rapide vue d'ensemble...
Here's a quick overview ...

Il ne me reste plus qu'à relier tout cela pour réaliser un petit livre de lettres.... :)
It only remains for me to connect it all to make a little book of letters .... :)
Bonne soirée
Good Evening

i,j,k,l,m,n,o and p .....

Just catching up with my letters for March and April.  I love glancing back and seeing all the work we are doing collectively and how varied and wonderful it all is looking.

Wishing you all a happy and safe Easter.   Most of the children (we have four between us) will be here at some stage over the four days. are planning to curl up in front of the fire with choc brownies, do puzzles, watch movies .... bliss.  Of course if the sun is shining there is always the garden .....

M N O and P

I J K and L - sitting in a bit of a dark puddle

my alphabet thus far