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V is for Very long time

It’s really been a very long time since I’ve inflicted one of my filigree lettering on you. Probably because I took a break and devoted myself to other elements of calligraphy.

So here is a two-tone V with filigrees (a little different from what I usually do) and my unavoidable little gilded dots.

Iroise

I live in the country of Iroise, a small part of Brittany, France.
In Breton, it’s written (probably) Hirwazh.
So here is a lettering in blue tones , decorated with small dots as in Celtic decoration

Blue circle

I had a leftover blue, so I took a piece of paper and filigree. The circle in the center is about 2.5cm in diameter.

And I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you that there are still a few places left for the online course on filigree that will take place this weekend. During this course we will discuss the elements present in this little realization.

Information and registration on this page.

Versals

Apart from some filigreed initials, I’m not doing much at the moment, except adding material for my online course about puzzle versals.
Here are some examples of letters I’ll be talking about during this course.

If you are interested, there are still a few places left 🙂
info and registration link on this page.

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.

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 !

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

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 Blue

A initial for a little boy, so necessarily blue since his first name begins with a B 😉

I show you some steps of the realization so that you can follow my progress.

the pencil structure to delimit the spaces

painting of the letter and gilding

some steps of the filigree

and the final version

MV done

After about 12 hours, the monogram is finally finished.

It is about 10cm wide, as a finishing touch, as you can see on the first picture, I added a layer of arabic gum on the letters to give them more shine.