Hold on Tight... (ELO!)

While playing in my art room the other day, this song came on, SO I decided to letter the French lyrics part on a postcard!

Accroche-toi a ton reve.

(Pilot Parallel pen and teal India ink)

*And, just for fun, found this little tidbit online:

"Hold on Tight" from Time. Also hidden in plain sight are the French lyrics for the third verse in Hold On Tight. The line is basically a direct translation of the first verse from English to French. The original Time album's liner notes credits this as "Accroches-toi a ton rêve, Accroches-toi a ton rêve, Quand tu vois ton bateau partir, Quand tu sents ton cocur se briser, Accroches-toi a ton rêve". At it turns out, Jeff and his family had a home in France at the time, which is where his daughters were living with their mother. At the time, Jeff was in Musicland Studios in Germany recording the song, and apparently called up the girls' nanny in France to get the translation. The French lyrics are not a 100% true translation, although they are very close. Translating the French lyrics back to English, they are: "You hang on to your dream; You hang on to your dream; When you see your ship is parting; When you feel your heart is breaking".

Hello! (pc and insert)

I did a Hello postcard (scroll!) and then an insert similar.

I wanted to do the hello's in various languages, just like I did various letters

script/pp, blkltr/gothic, uncial, neuland

"Aloha, hey, ni hao, ciao, hallo, hi, bonjour, hei, ola"

And my postcard (I love it plain too!)

Italic-ish, blkltr, uncial, neuland

Black sumi ink with gold on top

"hola, ni hao, hey, hallo, ciao, hi, bonjour, hei, aloha"

various markers

finished

Trip-tych ("to create...")

We now return to our regularly scheduled programming! 😄 (i.e. Back to Black)

This layout is a result from another Pinspo.

"To Create is to be Free...

To unleash your own Voice within."

quote is my own; design in Pinspo

Metallic w/c and pp work

Before pics/Process Pics

 

more Joy (postcard)

I have been LOVING lettering on my postcards (Cmas gift!)

However, some inks are feathering (BUT, funny enough, it takes a bit of a literal meaning!😄)

Parallel pen and fountain pen ink with metallic acrylic ink using pp.

I added this strip after my initial design as it seemed too plain. Gel pen with block lettering (masking).

close up of glitter glue.

original

another close up

 

M. Oliver (postcard, color)

ok, after a week of black and white, I'm gonna mix in some color now, then I have more to share from my black journal!

For now, here is a version of the last line of Mary Oliver's poem, The Summer Day.

"What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

I lettered the poem in a mix of styles, making it a bit "bouncy" and connecting the letters. (although I messed up!)  :(

I then added watercolor in between the spaces and then printed the lettering at the bottom.

So many fun ideas for this!

Messy.

I discovered this song a bit late but I'm glad I discovered it at all as I LOVE it!! Such awesome lyrics esp. for those of us who know what it's like to be judged.

And this is my fave line.

and my sketch

i matter too.

Was inspired by something from Pinterest (yet again!) where I saw a journal page with a photo and I got the idea to do one for one of my original poems.

This is the finished piece with a picture of little me, age 1 (however, I blurred out to be private, although that sadly could fit the theme! Ugh.)

Layers upon layers which I will break down below:

This is a before in which I decided to add "i" and "too" to the top lettering under the asemic writing.

I started with this line (pp metallic ink) which you can see runs through the center of the poem. This represents me in my middle years, wanting to be heard, wanting to be "seen", acknowledged, etc.

I then lettered in uncial near the top. This will represent my younger years.

*I later added another "i" and "too" across (see above)

I lettered my poem over (in "asemic" writing / illegible script) which hides the words underneath to signify that I was silenced/ignored/shutdown, etc. etc. (this makes sense too if you were to read my poem)

The end line is, "...she did in fact, matter too."

close ups

For the final touches, I added my 1 year old pic and "i matter too" (in pp) on velum as an overlay. I hate that you can't read it that well over the poem, so I went over in black ink too.

At the bottom I added these words again in black ink and outlined with a galaxy gel pen. This signifies me coming to terms with all that.

I added here too (again with the gel pen.) and although it looks like Mater I wasn't thinking and accidentally did a ligature, so i plan to fix.

I also added here at the top (with a white galaxy gel pen)

And lastly, I added another line to cross with the hidden one at the top (signifying me trying to speak out/ speak up)