Word Art News 20090830

Post date: Aug 30, 2009 9:29:23 PM

2009-August-30:

While dining with my parents at a local restaurant one evening last week, a small crowd of gentlemen showed up all at once and seated themselves at a cluster of booths. From the tone of their conversations and the way they were dressed, it seemed they were firefighters that had just finished a meeting. This inspired another sketch. I had a piece of somewhat already crowded graph paper in my bag-o-stuff at my side, but I was able to find enough free space, so I got right to work at that very moment. Rather than being guilty of "profiling," it was decided that I would reveal the (thumbnail) image on my website instead of showing my sketch to this particular audience.In Name Art News: Just today, I finished a design for a pair of names that had been requested while I was at the Renaissance Festival in Jewett City, CT, a few Saturdays ago. A woman named Melisa asked to have her name and her daughter's name, Micayla, drawn (as symbiotograms). I tried to do this as I usually draw symbiotic pairs of names, but something about the rotational sketch wasn't quite right. After looking for a better set of similarities between the names, I noticed that the Ms could reflect each other as viewed upon the surface of a lake if Melisa's M had round tops in a cursive style and Micayla's had pointy tops with round bottoms and was connected to the 'i.' The E of Melisa's name could reflect the C of Micayla's. The As could also reflect each other. After I had completed sketching all of the letter shapes, I remembered that Melisa's email address had a feature reminiscent of the style of symbiotograms that I had drawn: her email address contained the word BUTTERFLY! Yes! What could be more appropriate than outlining these two names with a Butterfly?! The two wings of a butterfly are a reflection of each other. The two names are drawn as a perfect reflection of each other. A daughter is a reflection of her mother. And on top of that, Melisa loves anything-butterfly. A sneak peak mini-preview of the finished design can be seen at the right. To see the whole design, come to my booth at any of the upcoming craft events listed on my News and Announcements Page, or wait until Melisa has the design in her hands -- that is when I will release the whole design in my Facebook or MySpace album. ;)

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I have updated the lists of personal and town names on my Name Art Page. There are more Eastern Connecticut and Western Rhode Island town names; and I have added nearly a dozen personal names -- some are still in sketch form, but can be drawn into the computer in less than a day.

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