cadel – Page 2 – Anachropsy

G comme Galet

Sorry for the title but it only works in french, it would make no sense to say G like the first letter of pebble 🙂
Anyway, weekends are short nowadays which means I don’t really have time to create new things, just to copy things I already did using other media.
A few days ago, I told you about a cadel letter on zinc, I copied it today but this time on a schist pebble, engraved by hand.

Cadel G

As the interval with my previous post may have warn you, I really don’t have time for calligraphy for the moment. So as to have you wait until I find some time to create new works, here are some pics of a cadel initial I made some time ago.

The cadel pattern is inspired from a manuscript of the XVth century and the shape of the initial from a much earlier one, so I dare say it is a real creation.

Cadel L

It seems that I cannot do anything but zinc engraving these days. This is then a new cadel initial before I go back to me vegetable experiments.

Cadel O

As I’m waiting for the inspiration to come, I made a cadel letter, just because I like this very much.

This time, I “invented” the letter by reproducing a simple interlacing, repeated until it makes a circle. To see the whole of it, click here.

Cadel J

Yet another cadel initial, yet inspired by the ms Rawl. B. 499 of the Bodleian Library.

to see the whole thing, click here.

Cadels

No time to work on a large scale, so I do little things, here 2 cadels initials.

The first is inspired from the ms832 of the Angers Library.

The second is inspired from the ms Rawl. B. 499 de la Bodleian Library.

To see them entirely, click here or there.

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After rubbing an engraved cadel letter using carbon paper, this is how this one looks.

I very much like the differences of brightness between the rubbed parts and the others. There may be something to do using this material.

failed cadel

I’m trying to use other metallic plates than zinc ones to engrave cadels letters. This time, a bit of “I don’t know what” previously used as a lid of a cigar box.

the pinkish hue is not totally uninteresting but as the varnish started to unstick after a few minutes in the acid bath, I had to stop the experiment.

Maybe anoter try soon with another kind of varnish ??

Rust

After playing quite a lot with zinc, I’m now experimenting steel as a medium for calligraphy.
Here is my first try almost correct of a cadel letter.

Next time, I’ll have to better sand the surface and to adjust the edges as the varnish is too sticky to get clean contours on the first stroke.

On the wall – 5

Probably the final version of this work.
I added a fragment of Petronius’ Satiricon (bottom right) in Luxeuil’s script and calligraphied a large cadel initial later highlighted in black to enhance the visibility.

The wall will remain like until the end of the year then I will erase all white a coat of white paint before starting another work.