Beautiful. I've noticed your lettering technique, like with the meadowlark post, is similar to landscape architecture/architecture practice. The painter/author Eric Sloan, also had a precise style of lettering. Was your lettering technique influenced by either? You might find this interesting, if you don't know about it. A movie in the mid 90s called Angels and Insects was based on a novella by A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Drabble). The movie featured naturalist journaling, which made it a favorite of mine.
You are so very keenly observant - yes, I started using block letters many years ago when I was drawing promotional elevation views of new homes for one of the big national homebuilders. They would send me the specs and blueprints (all beautifully hand drawn, in those days) and I would paint an idealized version of the finished home, complete with luxuriant landscaping and sunny skies, and perhaps a cat curled up on the porch. They used the images to market their new developments. I liked the hand lettering on the blueprints: it was very readable and also elegant.
THANK YOU for pointing me to the work of A.S. Byatt, another treasure with which I was not familiar. Being a book person, I immediately ordered two novels and a collection of short stories and I’m eagerly looking forward to them.
What a cool job . . . pen and ink, watercolor illustrations to sell houses. I took some watercolor classes at Mizzou, but never was able to take your combination under my wing, so to speak, as a hobby or otherwise. Maybe in another life. I’m runnin’ out of time!
Beautiful. I've noticed your lettering technique, like with the meadowlark post, is similar to landscape architecture/architecture practice. The painter/author Eric Sloan, also had a precise style of lettering. Was your lettering technique influenced by either? You might find this interesting, if you don't know about it. A movie in the mid 90s called Angels and Insects was based on a novella by A.S. Byatt (Antonia Susan Drabble). The movie featured naturalist journaling, which made it a favorite of mine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._S._Byatt
You are so very keenly observant - yes, I started using block letters many years ago when I was drawing promotional elevation views of new homes for one of the big national homebuilders. They would send me the specs and blueprints (all beautifully hand drawn, in those days) and I would paint an idealized version of the finished home, complete with luxuriant landscaping and sunny skies, and perhaps a cat curled up on the porch. They used the images to market their new developments. I liked the hand lettering on the blueprints: it was very readable and also elegant.
THANK YOU for pointing me to the work of A.S. Byatt, another treasure with which I was not familiar. Being a book person, I immediately ordered two novels and a collection of short stories and I’m eagerly looking forward to them.
What a cool job . . . pen and ink, watercolor illustrations to sell houses. I took some watercolor classes at Mizzou, but never was able to take your combination under my wing, so to speak, as a hobby or otherwise. Maybe in another life. I’m runnin’ out of time!
It’s tough to keep up..
I’m trying to capture everything after doing everything.. ! Yours
is lovely Val!!!😍
Take your time. It’s not necessary to keep up 😊