That's awesome , I'm glad my post inspired you ! I like all different styles and need to practice them...I think my preferred style of writing is the angular but that piece was just me playing with the letters, I would like to adapt on that until I have designed my own alphabet I am happy with, I want to go a lot further that just lettering too...got lots of ideas, I am very critical of my work and love to pick faultswith it in order to keep improving. Thanks for the info you provided I like a bit of research on the history of art and will have a look at that, I appreciate all kinds of artwork and it would be great to see more from you@Olie29 - my post inspired by yours.
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Calligraphy - much softer but much the same. A detail from Madrid - a spot that is reworked frequently. You need to check often to see what's going on. I agree completely with @William Dobson - some of the best contemporary art you are going to see can be called graffiti. Tags and calligraphy - these are co-joined concepts for me, stencils, whatever. On the right of this picture - what can you conjure with a single line? Have a look at classical Arabic calligraphy - particularly the Kufic script. The latter is angular like the work you have shown. It reads right to left. Generally it's only used for Koranic references but it's a beautiful script. Yours - I.
@Barry Giddens - another good example of a picture that only showed its value up-side down.
That's awesome , I'm glad my post inspired you ! I like all different styles and need to practice them...I think my preferred style of writing is the angular but that piece was just me playing with the letters, I would like to adapt on that until I have designed my own alphabet I am happy with, I want to go a lot further that just lettering too...got lots of ideas, I am very critical of my work and love to pick faultswith it in order to keep improving. Thanks for the info you provided I like a bit of research on the history of art and will have a look at that, I appreciate all kinds of artwork and it would be great to see more from you
That's extraordinary Iain. It is another picture altogether.Thank you - in a similar vein - but with no lettering to speak of - Madrid I think - yes - I've just noticed the phone number at the top. Circus School. Early morning - Leica and film. Yours - I.
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@Helveticum @William Dobson
@Barry Giddens - apply the upside down rule and see what happens?
I really quite like that...a completely different style of graphitti and that is the great thing about art, there are no rules it can be anything you want it to be !Thank you - in a similar vein - but with no lettering to speak of - Madrid I think - yes - I've just noticed the phone number at the top. Circus School. Early morning - Leica and film. Yours - I.
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@Barry Giddens - apply the upside down rule and see what happens?
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@Helveticum - I was looking for other pictures on a back-up drive and found this. Winter camping, upper Glen Nevis, North West Highlands. The Go-Lite tent - what a superb bit of kit. I'm not sure you can get them anymore? An absolute mare to pitch properly but when you get it right - it will stand up to anything - the sort of conditions that you would be thinking of a geodesic tent. Like here. Takes meters of Dyneema chord to tension it properly. A night rough enough for someone to have left a spare walking pole and an ice axe outside the porch.
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Could you not have built a snow house Iain? That's a fantastic image.
And probably the wrong type of snow Iain.As you well know B. - not enough snow. The seals would have been miles out from shore. Yours - I.
My SWMBO just walked into the living room and caught me with my lap top in the air upside down as I was looking at this photo. I am pleased to announce she now confirms I am bonkers.Thank you - in a similar vein - but with no lettering to speak of - Madrid I think - yes - I've just noticed the phone number at the top. Circus School. Early morning - Leica and film. Yours - I.
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@Helveticum @William Dobson
@Barry Giddens - apply the upside down rule and see what happens?
My SWMBO just walked into the living room and caught me with my lap top in the air upside down as I was looking at this photo. I am pleased to announce she now confirms I am bonkers.
Two wonderful photos! Thanks.@Helveticum - two pictures taken on the one afternoon - the Gran Via, Madrid.
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Leica and film - yours - I.
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Thank you - cheers - I.Two wonderful photos! Thanks.
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