Alphabet 1I am currently doing some casual work in a ‘box’ factory and I am always collecting offcuts of paper and cardboard - a calligrapher's heaven!
After one job where I had to strip a diecut shape from cardboard and push out the stencil ‘d’ from the middle, I couldn’t bear to throw out all the little quarter circle shapes – I now have literally hundreds of them! So, I had a thought ... use them to stamp shapes on paper!
Then when I heard about the Letter a Week project I decided to design an alphabet based on a circle created with these little cardboard shapes.
Alphabet 2Because I want to make a book out of my stencil alphabet I am going to interleave the stencil alphabet pages with a sheets of tracing paper. To make it more interesting, I am writing my second alphabet with a ruling pen, then scanning and printing it onto the tracing paper in grey so the stencil alphabet can be seen under it.
So my two letters (ie Ruling Pen A and Stencil A, etc) are shown overlaid in the one image.
Meg (confuzed)
6 comments:
These are FANTASTIC - well worth waiting for. Congratulations!
Yes, worth waiting for!! This is super cool and very creative.
Meg - the combination works so well together; fabulous design! I'm looking forward to seeing how the normally uncurved letters work out.
Fiona
Meg, this is no "con". You have very cleverly "fuzed" the layers ... love them! x x x gb
I LOOOOVE this project!!! Your letters are beautiful... I hope you'll share when you finish this project, I'd really like to see the final outcome. You rock, girl!
Well designed! I like the layered look. It will be a very nice book.
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