I make collages and word posters from vintage and retro illustrations and images in the public domain. Here’s my latest piece, ‘J is for Journey’.

Had a lot of fun making this one, a lot of good words that begin with J 😊

  • Deebster@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lovely stuff - and, looking at all the detail, this must have taken quite a while. Are you planning to do the full alphabet?

    • renard_roux@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Thank you! 😃

      It does take a lot of time, but my database of finished images is growing, meaning material from related projects can be recycled more often, and I’m getting much better at organizing and finding source material as well.

      I actually timed my hours working on J (not including compiling word lists and all the work on getting the print files ready) because my silent partner wanted to know if I could finish all the letters of the alphabet before christmas (it looks like I might be able to pull it off): 40 hours, spread over two weeks.

      I did a single poster with the full Danish alphabet in December last year, so there was a good selection of material from that one that I was able to recycle, saving some time. The most time consuming aspect is the restoration and masking of the vintage illustrations, so having a good, searchable database of all my assets is priceless (I’m using Eagle and it’s been worth every penny), and I’ve finally managed to import and tag them all.

      This is the tenth letter in the English Letters series that I’ve finished. The rest of them can be seen on my Instagram. Migrating to a Pixelfed instance is on my to-do.