A while ago now we were asked if we could provide a small sign to recognise a lovely man. Following his death, friends had planted a tree in line of sight of one of his favourite and precious views and they thought it would be nice to have a marker which would simply say "For James".
We decided it would work well etched on aluminium and in a calligraphic hand.
So I did a few trials to fit the size of the marker
And then after the style has been selected, I offered two possibilities and the final one was selected from them.
And then it was on to transferring the lettering to the aluminium. And that proved harder than one imagined. After several trials it got there.
I thought how easy would it be to trace and transfer through the carbon paper?
And then to use the block out paint. It was impossible to get a really fine tip working, so we did the best we could, with the odd wobble.
such a beautiful honouring!
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