February Letters - Gemma Black

These letters were, like the others, fun to create.

I worked the little alphabet conversations with the acompanying agate folder (Montville, QLD 2009).

Lau's letters, d, e, f, g

I had another idea for the display of this alphabet.
It will be "black and white with a touch of recto/verso".
I thus make white letters on a black bottom, and black letters on a white bottom.
The whole will be presented on a black and white concertina.
And every letter will be visible on its reverse.

Premières lettres - First letters - Callie

Bonjour,

Je vous prie de bien vouloir accepter mes excuses pour mon retard... Je suis désolée d'être en retard, j'ai eu de la difficulté à trouver des idées puisque mes premières idées n'allaient pas trop...
Enfin... j'ai trouvé un ou deux idées...

I'm sorry for being late. I beg you to please accept my apologies for my late ... I had trouble finding ideas since my first thoughts were not too ...
Finally ... I found a couple of ideas ...

Voici le premier alphabet :
Il s'agit d'un petit concentré de majuscule "Gothique Fraktur" et des graphismes, le tout en noir, la lettre est tracée avec la plume à affiche et de la gouache noire, les graphsimes sont tracés au feutre fin, la petite touche de "rouge" est apportée par une lettre en carton, laquelle lettre forme donc un relief.

This is the first alphabet:
This is a small concentration of capital "Gothic Fraktur" and graphics, all in black, the letter is drawn with the pen displays and black gouache, the graphsimes are traced with felt pen, the touch "red"is given in a letter box, letter which therefore forms a relief.

Et voici le second alphabet :

J'ai tracé le contour de la lettre au crayon gris, on peut donc dire que c'est une lettre dessinée... mais elle est aussi calligraphiée ;) J'en ai par la suite tracé les contours avec une plume très fine et de la gouache noire. J'ai colorée l'intérieur avec des aquarelles brillantes et j'ai attendu... Je trouvais que la brillance ressortait trop peu donc j'ai peint l'extérieur de la lettre à la gouache et au pinceau fin.

This is the second alphabet:
I traced the outline of the letter in pencil, we can say that a letter is drawn ... but it is also calligraphy;) I eventually traced the outlines with a fine pen and black gouache. I colored inside with bright watercolors and waited ... I found that the apparent brightness too low so I painted the outside of the letter in gouache and brush end.

On dirait bien que c'est parti...
Looks like it's gone ...
Bonne soirée
Good evening

Julie's EFGH

Here are the next 4 letters!

e, f, g, h

Thinking about these letters and that there was the option of coloured letters or white letters, I decided I wanted to have both, as kind of negative and positive. I'm thinking for presentation I'll put base to base.

This alphabet started as very basic, geometric shapes and as I have started to move through the alphabet, having started with an "A" which was just a triangle (no "legs to the "A") the question was then what was the "E" going to look like? A rectangle or with the horizontal lines shown?? I still haven't quite decided which will be the final letter I use...same goes for the "F". When I started this alphabet I did not anticipate this. :-) Pondering how to follow through with creating an alphabet using very basic geometric shapes also lead me to thinking whether it is truly an alphabet if you can't create legible words but really just have marks. I haven't come to a decision about that. Is it an alphabet even if the symbols aren't meaningful to anyone other than the creator??

If the "E" is a rectangle, wouldn't it follow that the "H" was also a rectangle? This is where I got to wondering about just symbols vs meaningful or easily identifiable symbols. As a side note, I sprained my ankle and one of the exercises the physio suggested I do is to draw out the letters of the alphabet with my foot!

February Four

Hi all,

Here are my second four letters, R,B,E and H. I have again used the Celtic design using burnt orange as my "special" effect.

Kindest Ann

FEBRUARY from Mieke.

Here are my next lot of letters, as before printed on muslin with a background of some photo's I took from various pieces I like.

                     Background of a little display cabinet with mini pottery I made some time ago.

                                               Background of a piece of white-washed  timber.

                                         Some more clay,  just some curly-wurlies pieces on sticks I like doing.

                             A bit hard to see here, 1 teapot 1 lidded pot I did in a soda firing workshop.

I will post my previous letters in every post but 1 step closer to finished piece which will be a artist book hopefully.

             The background sheet I made by scanning several objects and then printing on 220gr paper.
                Here just corrugated cardboard with feathers from my chookies. I the printed some words        beginning with the corresponding letter. Then sewing the letter on top.

                                  Background scanning of textured wallpaper.

A Scarf scanned.

                                                        

White and tea-dyed muslin.

January letters 2011

I have chosen to return to my roots with this alphabet and created a monoline alphabet using embroidery thread couched with matching silk thread to sew the image onto a fine Onrushi paper.

Finished Alphabets 2010

Finally back on the air! The images above are glued onto ribbon and into a box of the same paper. Half the alphabet into the top of box and the second half into the bottom, making a neat package when closed.

This picture to the left shows windows cut into mount board and the images glued in place. Both boards are glued together with ribbon allowing them to be closed flat.

e,f,g,h

This is fun. I now know I need to do all the letters in one go if I am going to remember how I did it. This becomes quite a challenge if I don't make notes. Hmmm, note to self, make notes. Hmmm, note to self, find notes.

e, f, g, h, Liz Davidson