Sunday, November 4, 2012

A Letter a Week...no.2 begins

I have been feeling a bit badly that I have fallen so far behind this year with my letters.  Fortunately I got a few hours the other afternoon when I was feeling well enough to go over to the studio and have a fiddle.

Sometimes when you have been sick and are still recovering, it is hard to find the energy or the enthusiasm to create a piece of magic; and that's where I love A Letter a Week. Even when I am feeling poorly, under the weather, or not particularly inspired, it is something I can begin and do.

It's only one letter. I only have to write one letter on a 7cm x 7cm piece of paper.  The size of that task is not so daunting that I can't begin.

I worked out how far behind I was (like 4 months or 16 letters) and thought I'd see how far I could go.

I'm proud to say that I am now on track!  I have completed the 16 letters and one more just for good measure.  I am working on some of the paper I recently marbled, and am using a metallic copper ink.  I have decided to make an exemplar book, using modern Versals.

Every second page is lighter and I hope that looks OK in the finished product. Altho they are not nearly as pink as these photos appear!  They are just a softer version of blue-green of the first one.









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6 comments:

  1. i really love these beautiful letters!

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    1. Thanks Velma - I think they are quite elegant too!

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  2. Oh, I am completely jealous Fiona. Not only of the beautiful letters but in the fact that you have caught up with your second alphabet. Love that you found your own use for the pastel marble paper. x

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    1. Oh Susan - I know that feeling, of needing to just begin! I am so happy I have begun...and the paper actually is much brighter and bolder than it appears here - a bad camera day me thinks!

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  3. The letters are beautiful and look so marvellous on your delicate marbled papers. Lovely, Fiona!

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    1. Thanks Carol - the letters are all a style of my own and I really like them too!

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