unkown – Anachropsy

Back to work

The students at Rendez-Vous 2019 in Canada were so fond of my little initials that I no longer have a single one.
Time to redo (for the umpteenth time) a small alphabet in advance of the medieval festival this weekend.

I am far from finished….

While waiting for the varnish to dry…

… on a more important composition, I continue (again & again) with my small filigree letters.

Amor vincit omnia

Love overcomes everything
Virgil said it (not exactly in this form), I hope it’s true.
In the meantime, a little monogram for friends who are going through difficult times.

I stay on letters about 2cm high, mixture of walnut stain and iron gall ink, the heart is gilded with gold leaf, the filigrees are done with iron gall ink.

PIES

I can’t get out of it.
I barely realized a few letters when they were bought or booked. I’m not complaining, let’s be clear, but at this rate, I’ll never have a complete alphabet to show!

This is the delivery of the day:

DJNL

I continue the warm-ups, more little initials….

And if you get tired of it, make sure you know it’s not over yet 😉

HAKS

New little initials, just to regain taste and dexterity before relaunching myself into larger projects.

These patterns (and many others) will be taught during my course at the 38th International Calligraphy Congress of North America to be held this year in Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada).

Oblique moon

After a few weeks of doubts, failures and trial and errors, I finally composed a new calligraphy on a text by Guillevic.
I deliver it to you very hot out of the workshop, even if the subject is quite cold 😉

as in the first composition, it was made from walnut stain and iron gall ink, this time with a few gold-leaf dots to lighten and warm up the subject.

Bilingual

After a first course given in French and English (with an Italian translator to complete the picture) in MiroModo, Italy this winter and, in anticipation of other courses of the same type, I decided to compose small panels to identify the preferred language of the trainees I am addressing.
As I only speak French and English, it’s not too difficult to do, here are the first copies.

the reproductions (no, I didn’t compose each copy manually) are less good but still usable, so that you can better distinguish the patterns, here is a better quality version of each side.

blue K

Back from Belgium where I spent an excellent time teaching courses on Celtic decoration, I return to another obsessive practice… the filigrees of course!

A little K to thank a friend for her help.

The letter is about 3.5cm high and is made with a blend of Prussian blue and cobalt blue.

B as in Bird

This is probably a little letter from the book of Kells (I think), made more than 15 years ago (that’s why the source is not very trustworthy), and it has been forgotten in a drawing board for more than ten years.
I didn’t add the colors (in case you haven’t noticed, color is not my thing) but it’s probably pretty much in line with the original from a design point of view (& not color)).