Calligraphytique Letter's #Week 16

The letter "P". / Puis le "P" pour cette semaine, l'alphabet avance bien!

Correcting mistakes

Over the Easter Holidays I have managed to redo A to H so that the cut outs line up properly.

 

Calligraphytique Letter's #Week 15

This week... O! / Et voici le "O"!

"fragmented peace"

I am so late in beginning this set of letters due to not being able to make up my mind what was important to me as in making a "peace"statement. In the mail months ago I received my usual CBM letter asking for donations for African women who are mutilated in the name of their culture. I have spent the last couple of months trying to come up with something more in the line of peace within one self, as I believe if everyone found peace within, we would all get on with each other no matter what creed or culture.....so I have finally started with the base letters which were sooooo hard to photograph due to the fibres being so free yet fragile. Strong yet weak. Lines blurred just holding together. Peace in our world so fragmented....

Eithna....at last!

I said in my introduction a few weeks back "Peace comes dropping slow". I want to depict an inner/personal peace, those still gentle times when all is right with the world. I quoted Yeats poem where he was seeking peace in Inishfree, close to nature and the landscape. I also feel peace is a fragile quiet thing, difficult to hold onto when stress and chaos seem to bully it out of the way. With those ideas in mind I have at last begun my alphabet. I am using Bamboo 265gsm  paper, a small freestyle letter in ink that I have then covered with torn parchment (the baking paper type), the delicate petal is all that remains of last years hydrangea and some nice ragged handmade paper and random strokes of watered down ink.

The dead Hydrangea flower heads are beautiful and fragile, it is a shrub that keeps on giving.

Peace Letters Assembled

The concertina book

Concertina closed and the box which contains the book

The concertina opened out to display all the letters.

 

This alphabet done and dusted.....now on to the next one!

Peace Letters

 

The last of the letters for the Peace alphabet.  These have been fairly simple as I knew time would be my enemy, but I was fairly happy with the out come.

Peac Letters

This is the next lot.

Peace Letters



Hello everyone,
I finally found the time to catch up with posting the Peace letters.  I have completed this alphabet and assembled them into a folded book that opens out into a mat so all can be viewed.  This folded book is then popped into a box to keep it confined.  Hope you enjoy as I have this challenge of peace.  Valerie

Une lettre par semaine - a letter a week - Callie - Avril

Bonjour, 
Hello, 

L'alphabet d'Une lettre par semaine sur le thème de la paix... continue. Mais je dois avouer qu'une petite idée m'est venue pour le deuxième alphabet. ;) Certes j'ai encore le temps... mais justement, je peux peaufiner mon idée... parce que si je la garde, ça ne va pas être du gâteau... ;)

The alphabet of a letter a week on the theme of peace ... continues. But I must admit that a small idea came to me for the second alphabet. ;) Of course I still have time ...but in fact, I can tweak my idea ... because if I keep it, it will not be a piece of cake ... ;) 

En attendant, je reste sur mes couleurs "pacifiques"...

Meanwhile, I've kept my colors "peaceful" ... 

Et malgré l'uniformité, j'aime toujours bien travailler sur ces couleurs... Je me dis tout de même qu'il faudrait un petit quelque chose de plus pour le montage... Je cherche donc toujours...

And despite the consistency, I still love these colors work well on ... I still say there should be a little something more for mounting ... I'm still looking ... 

Bonne journée
Good day

Calligraphytique Letter's #Week 14

This week: "N". / Pour cette semaine, je vous présente le "N".

Hello,

Un beau dimanche de Pâques , encore froid mais avec enfin du soleil !
En France dans l'ouest, nous en avons beaucoup manqué cet hiver !

Voilà mes 4 lettres suivantes toujours, sur le thème de la paix avec de la légèreté et de la transparence !
Pour le "J",  j'ai utilisé le papier à bulles dont on se sert pour envelopper les objets précieux.

J'ai toujours beaucoup de plaisir à regarder les réalisations de chacun, avec autant de variétés et d'originalité !

A bientôt

Annik

Hello,

A beautiful Easter Sunday, still cold but the sun finally!
In France in the west, we missed a lot this winter!

Here are my four following letters always on the theme of peace with lightness and transparency!

For "J", I used the bubble wrap that is used to wrap valuables.

I always enjoy watching the achievements of each, with as much variety and originality!

Soon


Annik