Elaines May letters

Week 18. V - EW
I wanted to create a 3D illusion and at the same make it appear that the letter was done with silver threads. I used silver gouache and pressure on a copperplate nib to write ‘over’ the letter shape and light strokes for the background. The red threads are real!

Week 19. Y- EW
The background is a black and white photo printed on photocopy paper. The Y is cut out from a thin overhead transparency film. I like the way the two pieces seem to become one.

Week 20.             J -  EW

Lino print using silver and red inks. I must admit that the J was part of a larger lino print that I had done sometime ago. To fit it into the 7 cm square I had to use a detail, but it seems to work like that too.

Week 21.             K -  EW

Silver artificial leaf on Wills gilding mix The red crayon and white pencil were added afterwards as I felt the letter didn’t have much character and these also helped to show up the texture of the paper. 

Fiona's Letters for May

This month hasn't been my best performance with keeping up to date with my letters. Almost every week has seen me rushing and trying to do "a quick letter".  Interestingly this has meant two metal letters and two paper-based letters. The metal letters used similar techniques to each other as did the paper letters. Weird.

R - I cut the letter out of a masking tape and then overwrote with smaller Rs so the letter appears to be on top of the background.
S - I punched the letter S into copper (through tracing paper which moved a bit) and left the patina on the background
T - I wrote the letter onto paper then overwrote with smaller silver Ts, so the letter is in the background
U - I punched the outline of U into galvanised iron and then stitched it with a maroon copper wire.

More details on each letter can be found here.

Jim's May letters

Here are Jim's musing for May....

Ann's May letters

Kim Schoenberger - ALaW 2010 - RSTUV

I'm getting in early this month with my letters for May...

R - is best to describe in two parts; the left part of R is a rusted bolt and welded onto the right, is a rusted metal wall bracket / hook, liked those that were used to hold up the old style curtain pole (many moons ago!).

S - cut from a spring that come from underneath an older style chair

T - was a curious find at the tip, and I still am not sure what they were used for. I found them amongst computer parts, some were alot thicker almost an inch and non-rusted, others were singular and blue on one side and amongst them were different size E's as well. Upon inspection of the thicker T, I saw that they were several T's compacted together and when I picked away at them they separated into more T's....abit of h2o and wolla...rust!

U - is a U-bolt minus the bolt

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V - has a slight over hang but as soon as I saw it, I just had to have it. It was part of a handmade tightening bracket of some sort someone had made for something, for what? I don't know. It just had the perfect V shape I was looking for. It was joined/welded at the end onto more metal and it was somewhat challenging to detach without damaging but after several attempts and Glen's help, determination prevailed.