filigree – Page 8 – Anachropsy

Want some more ?

Because there are still some 🙂

And I’m currently working on another letter, a bit larger (3cm high), with 2 colors & a bit of gold but you’ll only see this “work in progress” version for the time being

More & More

That’s no supposed to be the meaning of this monogram but, until the people concerned reveive it, that will be it.
So there is a little MM monogram

blue, grey & 2 M

Need for blue

and for little initials

It’s sometimes difficult to find new shapes for letters but this time, I’m quite happy with the Q

Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?

Tell me I’m the one, otherwise I’ll break you once more in tiny bits.

Inspired by kintsukuroi but not having the necessary amount of gold on hand, my wife repaired an old broken mirror with kraft that I then decorated with this little warning: -D

All coaches will tell you that when nothing works, you have to go back to basics.
So here is a new flower, a pattern of my own composition that I have already practiced a number of times.
It is 5 cm in diameter, on handmade paper, gilding with gold leaf, alizarin lacquer and gum arabic for the background, iron gall ink for the filigree

I’m not unhappy with the result, it gives me confidence to start working on new compositions and I needed it because of my last drafts!

The flies

A draft, made a long time ago.
These are selected bits from the play Les Mouches by Sartre. I used different gothic scripts for the different characters.
The obvious things to do for the final version are :

use a paper a little better than this one
remove the red versals, stay in monochrome + gold, maybe insert some cadels instead
revise the script used for Orestes and Electra
add a few more lines
and do it all on a paper big enough to have only one column!

If all goes well, the final version will be released this summer.

Monochromatic flower

A new version of the flower pattern I invented, based on filigrees.

I love M

Another filigree initial and another M.
It seems that the people who commission me to write initials all have names beginning with the same letter.
A bit tired of using the Lombard form, I opted this time for an older form, inspired by the ms. 0202 of the Mazarine library (12th century).

Stained glass window

A few months ago, during a visit to Quimper, I was admiring the stained glass windows of the cathedral when the idea came up to use them for a composition.
So here is a first variation on the theme (I think there will be more).

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