I'm developing texture studies to use in my Masteries class with Jane Dunnewold and have been playing with my own hand writing in both large and small formats.
The design wall is currently covered with these studies.
The idea to stack text came as I was doodling in this little beauty, a hand-made, fused-silk covered journal gifted to me a while back by Sue B.
Inside, while working on improving my handwriting before moving it to fabric, I began to be fascinated by the shapes, whorls, and sharp lines of text and the way one word looks when sketched directly on top of another.
I started with the basics, stacking the same nonsense word on top of itself, turning the page this way and that as I wrote. Interesting textures developed.
These led me to wonder about creating shapes using this simple technique.
I've long wished to "tag" my own name, and I know there are classes being offered online to help you learn to do that, but I've never taken the time to look into any of them. So I started playing independently with my own name and voila, a tag is born.
Finally, to play with even more text, I began stacking journaling on top of paper that's already been printed on, like telephone book pages.
Happy creating and hope to see you on 1-1-2011 for our first prompt! - Judi
13 comments:
I like the random patterns that emerge as the text overlaps. It'll be fun to see where this leads!
I love the look but mine looks like a bunch of scribbling. Do you have any suggestions? Also when you talked about a "tag", what does that mean? Love your art!
oops - here is my email
Very cool, Judi!
This is fun! I'd like to see this technique done with each layer a different color although the black and white of text is so striking. I'm looking forward to seeing your next step with this!
beautiful calligraphy! With a living motion in it. That's not as easy as it looks.
I really enjoyed looking at study with text. It was very inspirational.
Love your "tag" too. Didn't there were classes for that!
Can't wait till the challenge starts.
I just luv words. What a cool idea to stack them up. This is great, Judi. And here I thought you were just sitting around drinking egg nog! lol
Really interesting and definetly worth further exploration! I cant wait to start on te sketchbook challenge!
When my calligraphy gets too tight, I paint with watercolor to loosen up. But after seeing your journaling practice, I'm thinking this would be another way to loosen up. Can hardly wait to try it.
Oh, this is a neat technique. I am sitting here trying it. Love your examples!
Wow, this is really cool. I think I may have to try it and then have Lynn make it into a screen.
Very cool, Judi. Thanks for sharing your process. Happy New Year!
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