Another Illuminated Letter

Seeing as you all come around this blog for my illuminated letters, I have another one for you. This project moves painfully slowly and hopefully one day we will see it done, but for now here's my snails pace progress:

J is for Jentacular - of or pertaining to a breakfast taken early in the morning, or immediately on getting up.

More Illuminated Letters

So I am committed to my illuminated letters, we are settling down and getting finished. People keep saying "Alice, what are you doing now that you graduated?" and I wanna be able to say "This! WABAM!" And then pull out all this cool finished, bound, alphabet book, instead of making a fish gasping for air noise/face. So here are some more letters...

 M is for Menagerie

 

And P is Pâtisserie

Fun fact, Pâtisserie is a government regulated title in France and Belgium. Only bakeries with a master pastry chef may use the title after going through a rigorous training process. The more you know...

More letters to come soon.

Illuminated Letters

Recently in my attempts to get myself to do art post-graduation I have been working on an Illuminted Letters Alphabet. Originally I was just going to make one 'A' but then I got caught up in it, so now I'm moving on to the whole alphabet. Each letter is inspired by an obscure or unusual word.

 

A was before I really had any idea of a theme. I guess in retrospect A is for Aviary.

 

I then experimented with some color, scanning in old test strips of watercolor samples. 

Still not quite sure if I like that look or not yet.

B is for Bric-a-Brac: Small, usually ornamental objects valued for 

their antiquity, rarity, originality, or sentimental associations

C is for Cornucopia.

Then I got bored with D and skipped to H, which is for Horology:  

the art or science of measuring time

Currently in progress is E for Entomology