Pat's first post for the year

Being involved in ALAW 2010 really got me thinking about alphabets and trying different ones and playing around with letters. This alphabet, in all its simplicity, came out of sitting in a meeting with 3 pieces of paper on my lap and a dark skirt or trousers and taking the corners of the papers and fanning (while I was listening well of course!) and seeing a "W" appear and liking the contrast of the white with the colour and the basic, clean shape.

This alphabet is quite different from other things I've done and I'm not sure how all the letters will go. I'm not particularly happy with the "C" but it looked like a "D" the first try and I didn't want that. I decided to go with a different colour for each letter as it just seemed to fit. One thing I hadn't thought about until I went to make the first letter for this, was whether the letter would be the white or the coloured part. I tried both and decided on the the latter, although the former might get made at some point, too, just as a counterpoint.