Letters and Words

This week's adventure has been to work with words. Using some free applications online, I was able to create a completely new work or alter other pictures with text to make it fresh and new.

GlassGiant allowed me to make a picture of the family pet into a retro computer ASCII image made with letters, numbers, or symbols just like back in the day...back in the day of the Commodore computer.

black on white

white on black

The Text-Image version created a tighter, more sharp picture of the family dog. So... I wanted to try it out on a picture of a bronze cast squash.

Text-Image created a nice black and white image, but the color squash has nice tones and highlights and is more vibrant. With the text on top, it is like three levels of art-a cast of an actual squash, the picture of the cast squash, and the text of the word "squash" on the picture of the cast squash. Look closely...can you see the word squash? It's there, on the color version.

Black and White

"Squash"

Tagxedo allowed me to start from scratch in creating a word-based typographic form. This piece is a star with information about the blue star sapphire gemstone.

"Star Sapphire"

"Blog Gem" was created using words directly from my blog in the Tagxedo program. I chose the oval shape as it was reminiscent of an actual gem shape.

Textorizer takes words and layers them over pictures. This work features words related to the four rings from a picture previously posted of sterling silver rings that I created.

Textorizer 2 let me more clearly showcase the words that I chose to use. Using a print that I made of the symbols for estrogen, I wrote what it means to be a woman over the picture.

Excofizz was a little more subtle and used more lines and waves. A picture of a sterling silver cocktail ring that I made was artfully enhanced with this program.

I hope that you enjoyed my letters, words...and my work!