F is for Fairy Slipper Orchids.
K is for Kayaks.
Q is for Quaking Aspen.
Z is for ZZZzzz…Time.
A is for Ant.
L is for Lupine.
And so it begins.
My grand girl Jaydee is a unique and beautiful imp. She is the youngest of our grandkids and the last one learning to read. When she and Willa come to spend the night, she always picks ABC books to read. She wants to break the reading code so desperately. Jaydee has me thinking about alphabets.
So–I decided to make an alphabet print or poster. Then I couldn’t decide if I should build it with squares (my favorite), horizontal rectangles or vertical rectangles. Indecision is one of my best qualities. I’m doing all three.
All told, I need 78 different designs. I’m shooting to finish by the 4th of July.
My plan is to document my progress with my second sketchbook for the Brooklyn Library. One of the themes is to create a personal narrative. I want to crystallize our years of two week visits to the Tetons into these three alphabets. I suspect I will need another sketchbook before I’m done.
I’ll also use many of the images for notecards. Makes sense to me.
I’ve been doing the letters and shapes randomly. I’ll tell some of our stories in the sketchbook along the way. I’m having fun. It’s keeping me off the streets.
Here’s the letter M (vertical rectangle) just because moose are strangely built, but strangely wonderful to run into in the wilds.
Thanks for listening,
Katherine
