Scribbled Lives Week 35—Whimsical Alphabet

This week’s challenge was to design an alphabet using a fine liner and watercolours.

This collection of letters was inspired by the work of European calligrapher Gudrun Illert. I imagined peering through window panes to view parts of letters as if we were looking at museum pieces displayed in a glass case—a vitrine. These letters might not fall in the whimsical category, but the colour palette does take its cue from the Microsoft Windows icon!

Watercolour and pointed brushes on Saunders Waterford.

This past week, I took a workshop with Massimo Polello and attended a lecture by Marina Soria, both of whose works focus on the tension between positive and negative space and the Taoist rules of beauty. Coincidence that I’m painting the negative spaces to create the positive? Hmmm…