I’ve been playing a lot with engraving recently, here is my latest work.
It’s a delicious fragment from an ode by Horatius. To read the text and its translation (in french) follow this link, to see the whole composition, follow this one.
Tag: calligraphy
… these infinite spaces …
I’ve just finished a fragment from Les Pensées by Blaise Pascal.
I wrote a first text using a script from the XVIth century (with some distorsions) and created a border for it with a second text, this time engraved on zinc.
to see the whole thing, follow the link.
Dress
Etched white vine
My latest engraving on zinc, this time with a brand new metal plate (not corroded).
The initial is 2cm high.
The result is not too bad but it needs more definition, the vine is much too simple and the varnish didn’t cover properly all the surface, not to mention that the lines are often quaking.
Nevertheless a good proof of concept.
The sky is empty
first etched versals
XIIth century initials as XXIst works
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.
Know Thyself
… and thou shalt know the universe and God.
This phrase has been on my list of things to calligraph for several years. After several attempts at very different compositions, I think I have found what suits this phrase affixed to the pediment of the temple of the oracle at Delphi.
Of course, it’s the French version here 🙂
