susan's second - completed .....

It is so nice to have ticked another project off my list.

Bliss.

Fold over box design

continuing my new logo addiction!

you can see how the cut out folds over and hinges on the central piece

the letters just sit loosely in their box

some of the letters and their box

the alphabet box completed 

susan's second alphabet .....

The second half of this year has been a very odd one for me and as such none of my letters had been done until yesterday.  I came up with this idea in January and then went ahead with my dotty alphabet - no way I could have done all those dots in one day!

I had prepared the papers and then yesterday afternoon sat down and completed all twenty-six letters of the alphabet.  Seems like cheating but there is an urgency I have at present to catch up with all the projects that have needed my attention and haven't had it.  Steve and I head away in February next year and won't be home until after Easter so those projects which are due to be completed by April 2013, need to be done before Christmas.  I don't know if you all feel the same, but Christmas seems to bleed into January and not much in the way of creativity gets done.  Is this because we are exhausted after our year, and need that time out to refresh our thoughts and energies?  I think that is certainly part of it.

As you can see, my images are not on 7cm squares but are 7cms by 16cms and will be housed in a box.  The book will be unbound.  I have used a combination of joss papers - gold and silver, the gold had two differing coloured backgrounds.  I have used my normal writing for each letter of the alphabet and used the letters as part of the visual design.  Some of the letters are used repeatedly, almost as texture, and sometimes as individual letters. I have used a combination of graphite and fine black pen.

Despite the fact that the effort seems rushed, the concept had been worked out and a number of mock ups made earlier in the year.  As such, it meant I could just forge ahead with this collection.

I have really enjoyed looking back and forth through all the ALAW posts and seeing so much creative interpretation of the alphabet.  I am looking forward to seeing the completed alphabets.

second alphabet - a to h

second alphabet - i to p

second alphabet - q to z

susan's final letters .....

Phew - just a couple of days left in June and I have finished my 'dotty' alphabet.  I am now suffering from alphabet envy.  This is my first alphabet book and I am quite pleased to have it, however now I am wishing I had begun this project in 2010 when others did and the completion of this dotty book would mean I had completed five alphabet books!  How marvellous would that be .... having five of them bonding on the shelf ......  ah well, in another few years this book will have plenty of playmates.

This photo next is included as I am still quite partial to the 'bits' I had to cut off my letters as I had not made them the correct size for this project.  I may try and include them somehow when I house my book in perspex.

I will be making a perspex box for my book, and maybe a perspex sleeve for underneath the box and that way the reflections will add another dimension.  This is a borrowed box - you can see all the scratch marks from the pens which usually inhabit the box.  Thought I would just borrow it momentarily for the photo shoot!

And so, my 'dotty' alphabet is complete, apart from its box and now I am working out ideas for the second alphabet.  Something less dotty this time for sure .....  It has been fun though.  Looking forward to all our books meeting.

Back on track .........

I had fun trimming down my letters ..... not sure they have the same sense of design though I think they look more cohesive now.  Only my 'f' would not reduce - could have been worse.

Here are the pics ....... I actually like the photo of the letters on the discarded 'bits' and the remnants on their own.

Have really enjoyed looking at everyone's alphabets :-)

Be back next month. Happy lettering.

xsusanx

Oops.....

Hello everyone

Thank you to all of you who commented on my first blog effort. I was just sitting here looking over some of the recent posts when I noticed (not sure how I missed this the first time) the parameters for our alphabets ..... 7cm squares! Didn't see that so am going to have to re do my letters ...... Some may reduce but I am not sure that many will. Just when I had caught up and was about to submit my second post.

Watch this space and I will come back with trimmed or re done letters. Think I will be dotty by the end of this particular alphabet!

Susan