drawing – Page 2 – Anachropsy

Rusted rose

Still trying to get steel plates to rust only where I decided they have to.

Still not the expected result so back to rust under the rain. But it’s a good start, at least better than the previous ones.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty

A new sentence, this time from The Decay of lying by Oscar Wilde.
I took some pics of banks while walking, which inspired me while drawing the upper border. A bit of italic for the text and it’s done.

to see the whole work, it’s in the gallery.

Every angel is terrible

My latest work gave me the idea of working on a complete set of simple sentences. It’s quite a challenge for me as I always found difficult to layout short texts, even more challenging by the size I decided to use for all of the items of this set (approx. 30x10cm).

So here is the second item of the set, a sentence by Rainer Maria Rilke, taken from the first of the Duino Elegies (I already worked on the same text, using a more consequent fragment, I really love it).

I first wrote the text using a gothic script before copying it on another paper by transparency and finished by decorate with patterns which resemble feathers.

I’m quite happy with the overall result and I’m already thinking to the next challenge.

Painting the street

I’ve been playnig with man hole covers but it’s not enough.
The street is not only man hole covers, it also has pedestrian crossing and asphalt.
So here is my first version of an urban landscape, there will be others as I’m not totally satisfied with this one.

First some close-ups :

And then a view of the whole thing :

Embossing

I continue to play with man hole covers. Here is an embossing made with a new design, I used wallnut stain & ferro-gallic ink to imitate the color of the cast iron.

Black vine

Work in progress, a “white vine” on metal. I just drew the lines on the varnish, now have to remove the varnish (long & difficult task) before putting the plate in the acid.

And I ask to myself : isn’t it better to leave it as it is ? I like it this way …

Filigree power

I introduce a new design of decorated initials. Around the skeleton of the letter, I organize the decoration and then review the drawing of the letter for it to match the shape of the filigrees. It has something of stained glass pattern and above all a taste of decadent gothic, I like it 🙂

Happy Birthday

Today is my wife’s birthday.
I worked in secret for quite a while on this little drawing and gave it to her this morning. And guess what ? She liked it !

Which proves that an imitation of a bad inkjet printing of an over-contrasted pic can be a good present 😉

And here is a close-up so you can see the work on lines

As an information, the drawing has been made with a metal nib with a mix of pigment and arabic gum on kraft paper

Fingerprint(s)

During the few past weeks I’ve quite busy with gardening but also with this :

I drew a large version of one of my finger prints and filled in the parts which should have been inked with lines conjuring up the idea of more fingerprints, a kind of mise en abîme…

I spent loads of time on it but I’m very happy with the result.

More details can be seen here or here, the whole drawing being available there.