Thursday, 22 November 2012

Tuesday, 20 November 2012

A Spiral was the start for this image!

A spiral generated by Inkscape was the start of this image.

Then I added a braided ring and joined those two objects.


Next step filters! The latest version of Inkscape has a filter called Dark edges  which I used over another called Felt. Have fun experimenting with these two to create your own texture effects!

Saturday, 17 November 2012

BE TEST


I've been testing one of my favorite decorative fonts again!

The word BE in Angelic War.

Every single one of these 8 variants were created in inkscape an open source SVG editor which has an option to bmp and png file format  files.


Have you tried Inkscape yet?

Saturday, 10 November 2012

More curvy hebrews!


More curvy hebrew!






Rashi which was originally developed for hand writing notes and commentaries is to my eye more elegant than the square forms. While both have been used as a basis for fonts I think Rashi is more calligraphic?

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Curvy Hebrews!

CURVY HEBREWS!

Yes the Hebrew Script does have cursive forms!



Study this diagram and then visit the next post for more images.

Tuesday, 6 November 2012

Sonia Delaunay Artists Are Designers

Sonia Delaunay was a painter and designer of fashion and textiles.



She  pioneered and supported the use of swimsuits with patterns.





but she was also a painter and a textiles designer!


You may have heard of her husband Robert Delaunay?

She cut back on her painting after ww1 to the 1960s cos of the need to support her family after her income from Russia was cut off by the Revolution.

Yes she was another one of those fabulous Russian Jewish artists / designers who moved to France or Germany first to study and then to settle.

Want to read more about her work ? Try this excellent book!


COLOR MOVES: ART AND FASHION BY
SONIA DELAUNAY 2011
matteo de Leeuw-de monti and petra timmers