Sunday, March 14, 2010

Back to beating - letters that is

This past week has been a bit too full of computer work and not enough art. I didn't get down to the studio-garage to do a little bit of Friday afternoon art therapy. Anyway enough of the moans I hear you say.

Well today after talking to a couple of fellow ALaWers I was energised to do an I and J. I was experimenting with a couple of things.


With the I the folds have to be made so that they do not go right to the edge each time. You can see I was partially successful - with the centre fold I was able to get a nice crisp fold that had a beginning and an end away from the edge - not so good with the cross bars - more practice.


With the J I wanted to get a raised J form by marking the front and then beating the letter from the back. This worked reasonably well - a bright and joyful J stands out.

3 comments:

  1. It's great to see how your skills develop with each letter, amazing wat you can do with the same technique, I love the J.

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  2. Really nice folds - quite tricky to have them not go all eh way to the edge. I also like the circles that appear in the background

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  3. The interesting thing about using recycled objects (e.g. pot plant holders) is that you get to incorportate the existing texture such as the circles. B

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