The next two weeks will be spent at the McGregor Summer School in Toowoomba Queensland and though I will be teaching and enjoying the classroom atmosphere, my own task I have set for myself if I sneak some private time, is to work conscientiously on my ideas for A Letter a Week for 2010. New posts in due course ...

A Letter a Week for 2010

A Letter a Week for 2010

Fiona (Paper Ponderings) and I have been discussing this little project since just before the new year. With Fiona's idea we have nutted out the bibs & bobs and we would welcome anyone with a passion for letter forms to join us ... read on my friends ... read on:

The aim is simply to:
· Write a letter a week
· Creating 52 letters
· Which must form 2 x alphabets
· By the end of 2010

The only real rule is that the letter must be presented on a piece measuring 7cm x 7cm

· We can use any medium, on any surface.
· We can use any hand or representation of a letter.
· The presentation of the final product is up to each of us – we could mat and frame the pieces as a work of art; we could make a stack of cards, we could bind them individually; we could bind them in a book; we could cover a box with them....
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We can also use any theme or approach we wish in the project – we may choose to do all our letter in black and white and red; we may choose not to repeat a combination of medium and surface; we may choose to be experimental; we may choose an animal theme; we may choose a letter linked to a poem....
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We may start at the beginning of the alphabet, the end of the alphabet, we may make two alphabets simultaneously or we may just decide that today feels like a “D” day and decide to write a “D”

We will also aim to do a monthly sharing – on the first Wednesday of a month, we will share photos of our letters from the previous month. How’s that for prescriptive!

Other than that, I think we just go do what we want to do. Feel free to invite other calligraphers to join and do a letter a week; or other artist types who might want to do a 7cm x 7cm piece a week...

Depending on how we go, and where we are and what our final pieces look like; it might be nice to try and arrange a showing or mini-exhibition of the pieces once we have finished .

So...by Wednesday 3 February we will each need to have 4 x letters ready to show, and perhaps some words about our approach/theme or what we are hoping to achieve.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Amy Black & Ellen Hulbert 2009

Did I tell you I was reading this book? Fiona put me on to the Millenium Series
and I have since heard a zillion people rave about them ... even the ABC Book Show

These Mushies are about one foot high ... can you believe that?

Pam, Sheona & my good self at the
Caloundra markets today!

Look what Pam & I found after the rain today!

Australian Style

Merry Christmas Everyone! Cheers & Cool Beers! Actually, I have cracked open the champagne
and I am going to put my feet up and watch a good old movie!

Home I came to an aubergine stack for lunch "yummmmmyyyy!" An sat out by the dam to enjoy!

Not wanting too much sun ... I did get a little kissing glow ... I headed back up the Mountain and into a fine Christmas Day misty rain ... beautiful.
I stopped along the way to smell the roses just by the Glasshouse Mountains.

Then with my little packed esky with my breakfast I did what most Australian do and headed for the coast for a quick dip in the ocean. In this instance it was the Pacific Ocean. I swam for an hour & a quarter ... that was enough for me. Dried off, got out of the sun and ate my brekky.
Then I took a long stroll along the beach for another hour or so.

Then I visited Janna Pameijer's cows ... are they not the most adorable cows you have ever seen?

It was ten past seven in the morning and I have never seen the town soooo eerily quiet. The Upfront Club never looks like this and neither does the RSL!

... and headed into Maleny Town.

I hopped in my little car ...

After opening lots of lovely gifts ...

A picture story of Christmas Day

Wonderful to speak with family and friends on this special family day of the year ...

... there were lots of tears and laughter.

...'tis the night before Christmas
and all through the tiers
my wish to you all is ....
Cheers & Cold Beers!

Today I took the dream series in to be framed and sent to Sydney for the Southscribes exhibition. I'll have a sneak preview of them framed and hopfull get some pics before they leave Maleny - I am indebted to Phil Holden of Holden's Gallery for the assistance is giving me.

Gem in another hat!