Helen's March Letters

My work is still hard to photograph - a combination of an ordinary camera and subtle, delicate pencil work.

The "i" and "j" were made using only horizontal lines. The outline of the letters being delineated by a curve in each line as I progressed. "k" is not my favourite letter and I think it shows. "l" is whimsical and "m" and "n" architectural.

Elaine's latest letters

I am still excited by the process I set myself of working through my collection of ‘interesting ideas’. Keeping to my restricted palette of silver and red on black paper certainly stretches the mind.

Week 9.            D -  EW

Hand-cut rubber stamp, printed with a silver stamp pad. Red gouache in a double ruling pen. 

Week 10.            G - EW

Red ink and silver gouache in a double ruling pen. 

Week 11.             S-  EW

Japanese chopstick using red ink and silver gouache.

Week 12.             X-  EW

Jo Sonja iridescent red acrylic paint, written directly from the tube.

Week 13. N- EW
Letter cut out from ‘Brayer’ Paper (tissue papers coated with gesso and acrylic paints using a brayer). Black machine stitching.

Fiona's March letters

I have continued my plan to explore different approaches and challenge myself and am still enjoying all the experimentation.  Here are my 5 for March:
I - a mono print (a good letter to write back to front so it prints the right way!)
J - a calligraphic pattern in the background, 'O' written over and over
K - Gold foil on dried PVA, ironed on
L - black acrylic, gold acrylic on top with the letter and other 'swishes' pulled out
M - etched copper. The letter was stopped out and the background etched, leaving the green patina on the letter.

Jim's letters for March

Here are my letters for March. My earlier post explains my thinking...Jim.

Heather's next in her found alphabet

Here are my March (and early April) letters...all from items found on my daily walks...

Ann's for March

Here are my next four. Ann

March Letters

This month found me moving from the traditional to brush letters. An out of the square move for me. I'll be experimenting more with the brush. I liked the freedom and the fluid feel of the tool. The letter "R" was done for the record breaking rain my state of Massachusetts has had this month. We've spent each week of the month mopping water out of the basement. Turquoise water color with Dr. Ph Martin gold and silver dropped on it while still wet. Made me think of the rainbows created in puddles. The letter was drawn and colored with water soluble oil pastels. If you look carefully at the letter, you can see spots where the rain hit the paper. I was out at 1am for the finishing touch as the last band of heavy rains blew in. Good thing it was pitch dark and no one could see me. Otherwise, the neighbors would be saying I ain't got enough sense to get in out of the rain.

March metal letters

I just love how the ALaW is developing - so many different mediums being put into play on something that is so familiar to us all.

I have continued with my metal letters - great when you can get metal to rhyme with the month.

I have photographed the letters out of sequence as the letter J was the only one that had curves; and so I wanted it centred to standout amidst the other foldformed letters. As you can see from the letter I the foldforming can create a bit of tension in the metal - I can't always get them to sit flat.

Kim Schoenberger's ALaw - IJKLM

I like the way in which my 'discarded' letters have presented themselves in pure spontaneity and find it even more interesting the ones that have been hard to find, into thinking outside the square.

I & J - were found in an old box of finds of rusted nuts and bolts,

K - has been my most challenging letter yet, funny thing...should I read into that? An old wingnut attached to a post cut in half (post - internal part to connect two door knobs) .

L - was a happy find, a chuck tool for tightening a drill bit into a drill,

M - just happened to come to me in the old rake head I liked the look of, abit cut of the end...cement still intact.

Sue's March letters

More kiln peep hole letters from Sue in South Africa