Anachropsy – Benoit Furet

Golf clubs

Next (and probably last for this year) online course in French on filigrees, the golf club version, will take place next weekend, 4 & 5th of February

Information & registration on the French version of the agenda

More light !

This were the last words said by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
And, during this period of the year (at least in the Northen part of the world), that’s something we can say every day 🙂

Here is a lettered version with gouache and gold leaf on hemp paper. The letters are 1.7cm high (except the M & the H of course).

Happy birthday

Yesterday, it was my wife’s birthday.
I didn’t know what I could give her so…

As you can imagine from my fingers on the picture, the pebble is about 2 centimeters large.
The pattern is inspired by the decoration of the Visconti’s Hours.

Lettering & layout

On the 28 & 29 of January, I’ll be in Périgueux (France) to teach a course on lettering and layout.
If you speak French, a few seats are still available.

Happy new year !

I wish you a SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS year 2023 !

Thank you for your support, I hope to see you soon online or in the real life 🙂

Work in progress

I’m making a draft of a border for a text I’m working on.
Here is a short video of the ongoing filigree (speed X3)

Filigree course, the come back

Next year (that is to say very soon now), I will teach filigrees online again.

Filigrees, a manuscript approach is a 4 hours course (2×2 hours) where I will talk about different filigree patterns from several manuscripts.

This new versal shows examples of some of these patterns.

The course (in English) will take place on January 14 and 15, from 6 to 8 PM, French time.
It will be taught via zoom and the recording will be available for one month after the live.

The cost of the course is 60€.

You can register by clicking on this link.

A pebble

To change my mind a bit, I just made a small gilded versal on a pebble.

The patterns are inspired by those found in a 12th century manuscript and I will teach the construction of this kind of initials (but not on a pebble) in March 2023 in an online course in English that will be broadcasted by the gentle penman

1984

A fragment of George Orwell’s book, 1984.
The first part of the text is lettering created from what I got with an old typewriter, the last word is in a reworked NEULAND adorned with filigrees.
The black is watercolor and the red is eosin.

It’s part of a series called dialogs

Romanesque initials

I am making progress on my materials for the course on 12th century initials and filigrees that will take place next April.

But, of course, nothing beats creating to put into practice the elements found in the manuscripts. So here is a small piece of a work in progress.

Yes, it’s green (sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone), soon a complete view of this composition and, in the meantime, you can already register for the course at the Arche de Saint-Antoine.