Twenty-six types of animals is a beautifully designed book by Jeremy Pettis, with an a-to-z list of animals, accompanied by a special typographic treatment to suit each of the depicted beasts.
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I've been asked about the font in the header of this blog. This is a font I made myself, and it's based on my own hand lettering.
I called this font Cartelia (cartel = poster in spanish) because it was obviously a candidate for big lettering uses, although it also looks good at smaller sizes and it's quite readable, which makes it ideal for brochures, tags and other applications. Here is another sample of the font in use:
This font is available from a typography project, Typephases, where you can get several freeware fonts (also offered at selected online font archives) or purchase some exclusive fonts and dingbats:
This is a fairly complex composition. Seen from a distance, a few metres away, it resembles something geological, like rocks on a cliff. On a closer look, its a very crowded accumulation of small drawings, done more or less automatically, as a mind stream flowing freely. Etching on zinc plate, 23 x 16 centimetres (click the image to see some more details).
I left the plate on the acid bath for a little too long, because I wanted to have crisper lines. Anyway this is just a rushed first artist proof. Perhaps in the next prints, with more control of the inking I'll get finer lines as I envisioned.
These are a few monotypes I've been creating these days (you can click any of the pics to see a bigger example of each.)
I have used some spare oil paint tubes, instead of etching- or woodcut ink. I don't paint much in oil lately and I wanted to try them for this.
I haven't used the press. Just a ceramic tile to spread the paint (mixed with some linseed oil to make it more liquid). Then, using a spoon I transfered the monotype to a damp sheet of paper.
And here are some closeups:
I have reused an old student-quality gouache box with detachable pans for a selection of tube watercolours. I find it is more practical to have a selection of pans ready to use without bothering to open and close tubes. Most of the paints in this selection are single pigments. Starting from the top to the bottom, alternating from left to right, they are:
