Calligraphic layering

 I am having fun working within the constraints of my tiny wee studio here.

I have been working with photographs and papers and layering and experimenting and exploring.

I am enjoying the lettering experiments. First in my journal I did a few tests/samples. Just handwriting, not neat, not tidy, just jotting words down.

Checking out how they handle water and ink, and overwriting.

Some areas and approaches were more successful than others. I am glad I kept a good record as there were only two pens that I decided I wanted to keep working with.

I don't have much good paper with me, but my eyes lit on some cheap and cheerful black paper and I wondered what if?

So I wrote in lead pencil, which I knew would show up on the black.

And then I wrote in black ink on the black, which is actually very hard to photograph, but it is there I promise.

And over the top with water and ink I went. And over writing. LOVING where this is going!

This one made me laugh so hard. I popped a wash of ink over the lead pencil and it utterly and completely disappeared. I sat looking at it for a while feeling pretty silly, but I eventually went back to it and started to make scratch marks into the layer of ink.

Much happier!

So constraints and mistakes are me right now.