embossing

Man hole cover

Those of you who follow me on facebook already know about my appetence for man hole cover pictures. I’ve decided to recreate these graphic objects into more portable shapes, here is a pic of the first step of the creation of a pattern on zinc that will be used to emboss a paper in order to create a man hole cover design.

I don’t know whether the final thing will be worth it but I already love this pic, don’t you ?

Reflections

After a few tries on embossing using carbon paper with a basis of engraved zinc plate, I told to myself that something could be done mixing the two.

Far from being a success (both the engraving & the embossing are quite badly done) but nevertheless an encouraging first try.

Happy new Year :-)

Corpses of cities

At last, I’m done with the calligraphy of Giovanni Papini‘s short story, Corpses of cities.
I used most of my favourites techniques to do this job and I must say that I’m quite happy with the result.

Embossing on carbon paper

Zinc engraving and filigrees

To have a look to the whole work, click here.

Other close ups are available here and there.

Rose window

Here is a draft of my latest work in progress, a text by Giovanni Papini.

As I’m working on a paper I’n not used to, I make drafts of the different parts as proofs of concept, just to be sure that everything will fit in place and that, for example, this paper can put up with embossing.

Nibelungenlied

At last, I’m done with the “first adventure” of the Nibelungenlied. In addition to the calligraphy in gothic fraktur script, I wrote the title into runes, partly engraved on zinc and partly embossed.

As I was saying in my previous message, I’m quite satisfied with it 🙂

To see the whole thing, click here.

And as the picture is a bit small, you can get à look at two closeups here and there.

Almost

Amost done with my latest work.

Just have to clean some parts and to wait for good natural light to be able to show you the whole tihng.

I can already tell I’m quite happy with it 🙂

After the cut-out comes the embossing.

I’m not satisfied, runes are not legible enough due to the strips between lignes.
I have two possibilities :
– rework the cut-out to narrow these strips but, fragile as it is, I may destroy the matrix
– restart from the beginning

I’m going to think about it for a while in case a third possibility arise.

Cut-out

After quite a long work, I’ve finished to cut the matrix that I’ll use for the embossing in my forthcoming work.

The text uses the runic alphabet, each line is 1.5cm high, more information on it when the next step will be over…

… a little natural whiteness

Here is a new version of a text by André Gide that I already calligraphied for my professor.
This time I took only the last part of the text and wrote without any ruling to guide me. As for the decoration, I reused an embossed stained glass pattern previously utilized in other works.

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