In another (I’m almost done!) session from the Wild Wonder conference, Kate Rutter showed us ways to stretch (or shrink or decorate) lettering in our nature journals. This was such a fun mix of technical aspects and play.

She showed us ways to take our basic printing and make it more or less blocky or swooshy. She talked about different ways to group letterforms for practice and similarity. She left us with some exercises to try. I really enjoyed this session, and felt that there was a world of shapemaking to study on and try out…more so than I’ve felt from some other sessions (which were more of “here’s how I do a thing” rather than “here’s an introduction to and application of an entire field of learning to this one thing, nature journaling”.

Maybe I’ll fill in more of this page … yet I sort of like the shell just there on its own.

Have any of you studied type and letterforms and so on?

What the whole working set up in the still-needs-more-setting-up studio looked like: