On Monday of Queen's birthday weekend Roselda and Dale visited for the day to explore Asemic writing. We were complete novices! Unfortunately I didn't take any photos of their pages so these are mine. We went skewiffy, our colours ran, and we tried to stay away from identifiable forms. It was interesting that we could identify each other's style though. Mine are very similar so I have a long way to go. Starting with small blocks of colour, then overworking using various thicks and thins, and light and dark. It will annoy some who like to read words. It can be many things, textural elements, emotional responses, shadows for depth etc. I plan to do more, perhaps limiting myself to black and white.
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Thursday, June 08, 2017
Sunday, March 05, 2017
1. The first of some illustration trials. I have some words that have been written about the early 1950's when we arrived in New Zealand. Memories of startlingly crisp mornings, our childrens voices echoing, the pines trees, a stream to dam before the tide came in, but first to run along breaking down the sand edges. I am using the red gifted journal from Steph and Em.
Monday, February 20, 2017
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
I read an article about a young mexican designer, Rolando G Alcantara and his typography alphabets. I liked having to identify the forms and found a quote that Laurie Doctor had used, of a letter from Rilke to a young poet.
It took quite a lot of powerful images to get me back into my place of play, I had thought this phase of my life was drifting away, but now I am starting to think again.
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Day 96. The last image and the end of the poem. Phyllis Cole-Dai wrote this and because of the images the poem conjured up in my eye I asked her if I could use it for this personal development project. Kindly she said yes. I have enjoyed this overall and happy to be back to regular drawing, playing and experimenting in my studio. Now to bind the book.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Day 95. Penultimate day, soon I will be able to bind the pages. Two more words to go. I lked this nesting of letters, it is crying to doodle away where it needs, there are lots of nooks and crannies just waiting, the execution of colour was a disappointment. My days do not match up to 100, I have confused myself by posting to the project, taking several days to complete some, and filing is not the best - I do have 99 images to date.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Day 94. No laser cutting here, and you can tell. What started out as a border kept going as it was not appropiate to stop. It has created havoc on the image the other side, I knew that and kept going neither are worth keeping. The words are 'Plenty for friends. Plenty for the long howling winter. Plenty for strangers. Plenty for all the bread in' I have put pink tissue paper behind when it went through the scanner.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
Friday, November 25, 2016
Day 92. 'A rich batch of preserves' using my downpipe collection of greens. I probably only went through about half of them. I coloured over the fibre pen and should go over it again, I am also debating in my head about outlining the squares too. All my coloured pencils are stored in 7cm sawn off lengths of down pipe with heavy card for their base. They in turn are kept together in a box 24cm x 36cm. I have 16 different colour selections.
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Monday, November 21, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Friday, November 18, 2016
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Monday, November 14, 2016
Day 82. Nothing is pleasing about this for me. The acrylic background would not take my inks, the texture pushed the pens around, the layout is confusing. I intend getting back one day and making the word 'if' twice the size of 'you' and see if that makes it more readable. The words are 'if you ever'. Maybe I need to upskill!
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Day 78. I like the way my eye travels from intersections back rather than forward. Am I looking for letter recognition? All the components are here for these words ' for the next picker'. I also tried to make each letter intersect the border, some only just. I might try some colouring later and see how that changes the experiment.
Later: Many choices and trials with bucket fill and I am none the wiser. Using Pixelmator.
Later: Many choices and trials with bucket fill and I am none the wiser. Using Pixelmator.
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Day 77. The words say 'within easy reach'. Definitely not enough planing, stuffed up the colours. Being water colours they did not cover the acrylic under painting. I thought I would try doing this because I didn't like the way the water colours absorbed into the cartridge. I will have to try some other way of changing the paper surface.
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
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