very once in a while you know for sure you’ve done your job well as a parent. Today our teenage son is working on a sculptural English project (depicting his version of Dante’s circle of hell, but that’s beside the point). I showed him how he could use a bone folder to help lay down a long line of tape without wrinkles. He thinks this is cool, and shows it by breaking into song, the lyrics of his own making, to the tune to “I Love My Dictionary” from “The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee”:
“I love my cool bone folder,
It’s a very reliable friend.”
How satisfying!
Oh Beth!
That header is WonDerfUL!
Love those pastel (?) letters!
Thanks, Victoria!
Actually, they’re 1.75″ square gouache paintings on Arches Text Wove, all lumped together to form two rows. I’m really quite taken with them, but I can’t figure out exactly *what* to do with them!
Later I plan to go back and replace that English Presto typeface with some real calligraphy for “Painting Speech”.