filigree – Page 7 – Anachropsy

Solitude and society

On the weekend of 18 & 19 April 2020, I will teach a workshop at the Welkenraedt Cultural Centre. It will be devoted to the writing and part of the decoration of the second Bible of Charles the Bald.
I worked on this manuscript more than 10 years ago and, in preparation for the workshop, I am getting back to it and trying some variations (especially of hues) based on a text by Seneca.

Decorated capital letters and original text with walnut stain, French translation into a later writing in iron gall ink.

Colors

A for grey, J for blue, R for walnut and S for red: -)

and then a few more with only walnut and iron gall ink

a bit of R

I’m moving slowly towards the end of the primer, I’m not going to show you all the letters here but still a few to keep you on your toes.

We will soon be able to start the publishing phase!

Fame !!

I am very happy, there is an article dedicated to my work is featured in the last issue of Bound & Lettered, an American magazine published by John Neal.
In addition to many illustrations & explanations of my work in general and in particular on filigrees, you will find there the pictures of the different steps of the letter E I was telling you about earlier and that is now finished !

Primer – the cover

Okay, it’s the third post in a row on the blog about this primer but it’s also been almost 3 weeks that I’ve been working on it without stopping.
And so here is the first somewhat finished version of what will be the cover.

Primer – next steps

I am slowly moving forward with the primer project I was talking about earlier.
I do the alphabet from each side, it’s nicer than doing it in order.

Primer – the A

Tired of only doing small letters, I asked the help of my friend Pascal Aussi to create a primer.
So he selected words that appeared in his songs, and I’ m in charge of putting them on the page.
Today, the first letter with the word “Arbre” (Tree).

As usual, the initial is about 2 cm high.

Initials

Again & again …

More initials

I’m finishing to rebuild a complet set of initials, and I vary a little bit the colors…

Alphabet

Small letters are fun for a few years but, after a while, you want to evolve.
So I started a alphabet book using the verses from the poem Hyperion by John Keats.
You are going to tell me that an alphabet book begins with an A and you will be right, but the poem begins with a D, which is why that is what you see here.
I am not very satisfied and it is therefore a draft, in compensation, I show you two small initials very simple but nevertheless pretty.