More Letter Lovin'

I am working my way slowly but happily through Joanne Sharpe's Letter Love 101 course.  I keep up with watching the videos, but take my time to actually complete the assignments, so I'm only about a third of the way through.  I am really enjoying the assignments, though, because the pressure is OFF and the playtime is ON.

In my last post about the class, I shared my notebook and some of my practice exercises.  Then Joanne moved us into our mixed media notebooks, and for me, the fun really began!

I really loved the Whimsy Grids that Joanne showed us how to construct.  As far as I am concerned, the Whimsy Grids lesson alone was worth the price of admission!

I love the opportunity to use lots of styles of lettering in one piece, and a chance to include lettering and doodling.  I wasn't happy with the final look of my Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils; I'm still working on how to use them to best effect.  (The purple came out muddier than I might have liked.)

I tried another Whimsy Grid with a quotation from Gandhi:

And you might have seen another example of a Whimsy Grid in my post about the Pay It Forward project:

(I'm still looking for my third participant, by the way!!)

Joanne also encouraged us to try other stacked lettering layouts:





In another fun lesson, Joanne had us working on composition, arranging fun alphabets across the page:

For several days, I've been working with her second example of alphabet composition.  Before applying it to quotations, I did a basic alphabet:

Then I combined this composition style with some Bible verses that I have been memorizing.  Spending time on lettering is a great way to commit the words and ideas to memory!

So, while some of my classmates are working on lesson 23, I am way back on lesson 8.  But by not putting pressure on myself to go any faster (after all, we have access to the class forever), I am still very much in the midst of letter lovin'!