embossing

Know thyself

An umpteenth version of this sentence engraved on the Oracle’s temple in Delphi : Know thyself.

This time, I mixed an embossed roman capital with its greek counterpart, letterred on tin and electro-etched to show the hidden parts of the roman caps.

I’m very happy with the result, already thinking of new works using the same technique. Impatient !!!

To see the whole thing, click here. The pic is not very good, it’s difficult to get enough light to reveal the whole etching :-

work in progress

Just to prove that I’m still working, even if (or maybe because) I don’t post a lot on this blog.
Here is a pic of my latest work, still in progress and far from being finished.

There’ some greek in it but not only and it’s a sentence I already worked on. For the time being, I won’t tell you more about it …

🙂

My workshop on embossing approaches fast, time for me to review the basics.
I’m also doing some researches on knotworks based on triangle patterns and not on the regular square ones. The result is this little knotwork embossed on watercolor paper.

As we are talking about embossing, here is a small ampersand, done a few weeks ago.

Unlike the regular embossings where the embossed parts are smoother than the others, here I added some texture to the embossing.

Stained glass

Back from Coulon where I spent a marvellous week in Gérard Guerry’s workshop, I can show you my latest work.
As it wasn’t very convenient to bring all the mandatory materials for engraving/etching, I went back to work on paper.

It’s the structure of a stained glass window from Saint Hilaire church in Niort, embossed with carbon paper. I finished it by filling the pattern with my unavoidable filigrees 🙂

To see the whole work, follow the link to the gallery.

Detail of a work for a customer, a little knotwork embossed on an excellent paper from Capellades, a Catalan mill.

It’s has been a long time since my last embossed work and even longer since I last drew knotworks.

The world is all that it is

A new item in my series of sentences and a new item in german.
This time, I chose Wittgenstein, a philosopher whose work I really like.

To change a bit from the previous ones, I used a double embossing with an industrial look and a finish in tag mode.

I quite like the result, and you ?

The silhouette of the night – final version

I worked a bit more on the text and here is what I got :

I made the background with acrylic paint, adding a texture with a home made tool. I then cut out the text and embossed a paper in the resulting holes.

And now I find it good 🙂

to see the whole work, click here.

The silhouette of the night

Frist try on a text by Eric Chevillard, from his book Du Hérisson.

To stick to the text, I should cut the paper in a rectangular shape but I’ll continue to search for other solutions before considering this as the right version.

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.