Today is my wife’s birthday.
As I didn’t know what to give her, I started to create a new currency (kisses) and I started with a big banknote, 1 million !
Cashable only with me and in nature 🙂
The photo is printed (yes, I know, I should have done it by hand but that’s one of the many things I don’t know how to do).
Gold leaf for the control strip and the dot of the i, embossing for the number, everything else is done in watercolor, different dilutions of Payne’s grey.
New version of the periodic table of elements. After a reinterpretation of the first version of the Mendeleïev table, this time I used a classification of the elements by energy of first ionization.
The abscissa of the graph is the atomic number (Z) and the ordinate the energy in electronvolt (eV).
Some elements are indicated by their symbol written on an embossed square, the others by a simple golden square with the atomic number in Roman numerals.
For the decoration, I used my small arched filigrees and a copy of the traces left by the disintegration of particles in the CERN collider.
Finally, I added some equations used in the field of ionization.
and here is the final result
It seems I can’t switch to another color lately.
And the stained-glass window I did a while ago made me want to go back to those patterns.
This time, I “invented” a small rosace, embossed and then filigreed.
The embossing is less elaborate, but it remains a small (8 cm in diameter) and pleasant realisation.
It’s been too long since I’ve posted a message on this blog. The fault is mine, mea culpa.
So here is a new work, it seems I can’t get rid of the NEULAND lately.
It’s a quote from Pascal Quignard, embossing on paper blackened with iron gall ink, insertion of golden patina by my wife.
loneliness, a precious stone, silence, darkness
Sorry for the quality of the pictures, the black of the paper is quite shiny and I couldn’t get good pictures in any lighting.
This project will have been going on for almost three years, but it is finally over.
It is therefore about the beatitudes in the version of Saint Luke and according to the text of the vulgate.
The cadel B was made on metal and the embossing on a rag paper whose provenance I have totally forgotten.
I’m rather happy with the result, especially with my abbreviations, ligatures and Tironian notes in the NEULAND style, but even without mentioning these details, the overall view is rather nice, isn’t it?
…and we are for the dark.
I don’t know if it’s the end of summer approaching, the various events that are not very good in my life and more generally in the world, but this quote has been imposed on me recently.
It is based on Shakespeare’s play Antony & Cleopatra.
I covered a white watercolour paper with iron gall ink, which I then embossed. And part of the text has been engraved on zinc to have both brilliance and darkness.
The script used is an approximative copy of a gothic script by Rudolf Koch that I have to keep working on to really make it my own.
Quite happy with the result produced by the combination of embossing and ink experimented on Julien Gracq’s text, I decided to reedit the experience with initials copied from XIIth century French manuscripts.
This time I used walnut stain instead of India ink and I find the result just as interesting, judge for yourself.
