To Be Legible Or Not

 

I am absolutely gutted over the election results, the above picture is copied from Facebook (art by Philipp Gumonov) is my sentiment as of the moment. I took yesterday off to be sad and then angry, and I am Carrying On and making myself be Creative today anyways. I hope you are doing okay too.

This morning I woke up very early (at least for me) to join in an Ana Buzzalino class through the Mancuso Brother's online Quiltfest Virtual Schoolhouse. It was totally worth getting up for and I had a lot of fun learning about Text on Sheers. I love learning about the reasons for choosing to be legible vs. illegible.

I had to choose something to write in several different ways, so I went for what Rebecca Solnit wrote in the first paragraph of her essay today. It was rather cathartic to write it out over and over again. This white polyester sheer I used above has a printed black and a grey 1/4 circle, definitely a FabMo acquisition.

My workroom still smells of Sharpie and Golden matte medium, so I have my little table fan blowing as everything is drying, it really helps with the fumes as you're working with this kind of stuff. 

This one above was written over and over again in different colors of pen in different directions as well as ruler drawn lines. This is just a standard grey polyester tulle net.

In class, Ana mentioned all sorts of tools for mark-making and writing one of which most of us in the class had never heard of, a Cola Pen. I found this great how-to video on how to make one for yourself out of aluminum cans and wooden coffee stirrers. I haven't tried it yet, but I certainly will and report back.

This one was a thin sheer cotton or possibly silk another FabMo special as you can still see a piece of the designer paper tag up on the top. I can't wait until everything is actually dry so I can peel them off from the freezer paper and see how the text looks after it was transferred. That'll be tomorrow.