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Great Topic - I'd love to see what people have done -
I painted this a couple of years ago for myself. It a 37" x 54" oil portrait of my son when he was three. At the time he loved to play ball with me on the stairs, and would often lay down to watch the ball go down. It was such a fun private moment for us.
I love typography but find it's a real tough job to incorporate it successfully into a painting . In this painting use script text to depict his world at the time - things he liked and would say at that period of his life. To keep the text as a secondary component of the painting, the text is painted darker or lighter so as to keep the same relative contrast to the background around the whole thing. Also the script face gives it a border design feel before you notice it's words, plus the typeface looks like a mothers writing.
I'm working on another personal piece that has type in it, but I've stopped for over a year now on it, because I haven't solved some problems on it. Using type is a challenge, but I have a million ideas in my head and I don't want to give up on the challenge.
I love how Chris Saper's idea works as a border and play on 2D 3D because of it. I have never been successful at that yet.
Linda
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