Tag: gothic

S like Stele

The weather is much too beautiful to stay in the workshop trying to do some calligraphy. So I try to get some fun outside.


A small initial S, in the gothic style, first engraved on slate and then filled with rust.
It has to remain some days in the garden for the rust to look similar on the whole letter but it already looks good or so think I ?

ABC etc

Last weekend, unusually, I had some time to work. But the sky was as blue as an orang utan so I decided to go to the beach, even if the water was so cold that I soon looked as an orang utan. Anyway, I manage to produce some little things, the beginning of an alphabet of brooches and, as I really love books, a nother brooch for my personnal use…



The initials are inspired by the Art Nouveau with a puzzle look which comes from the gothic period, and I like them. Not to mention my SERIAL READER brooch that I love !

zinc

Still no time for real work, this time I decided to make two little broochs instead of magnets.




I take the occasion to tell you about Monique who decided to create cadel initials on zinc after she discovered them on my website. With no information from me on the technique, she managed to get quite good results!



If you are also interested in zinc engraving, please send me pics of your works, I’m sure that all together we can improve this technique.



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.

Ein Stein …

This post is dedicated to Iris Van de Casteele, a belgian poet who lives in Paraguay.
She honoured me by writing a poem about my works in a collection named Grains de folie, poem which my modesty forbids me to reproduce here (even if she was kindly making fun of my failures).
At the same time, she was punlishing another collection of poems, in german this time, called Reflexionen where I found the text that follows.



For those who don’t speak german, this poem starts with the words : “A Stone …”. I immediately felt again in my engraving delirium and wrote/engraved the text with a gothic script on a schist pebble.


pebble

Last weekend, I went for a walk on a pebble beach not far from home where the pebbles are made of schist and not of granite as usual in the area.
I picked up some to see whether I could make something out of them.

Thus passes the glory of the world

I wrote/engraved the sentence directly, I think I will polish a bit the next one before to make sure the letters are really sharp.

those volatile dreams…

Here it is, at last, I finished my engraving work on slate and zinc.


You can see the whole work here, and two close-up here and there.
It was my first large work on slate, I’m quite happy with it even if I spent more time on it than I expected.
I will now be able to get back to paper work, almost forgot the taste of it.

And, I was about to forget, it is a text by Petronius, a fragment of the Satiricon, you can find its trancript here.

small engraving

Last part of my current project, I engraved the french version of the text (still using my super home made tool).


I’m quite happy with the result, I used my chisel as I would have done with a nib, the engraving is not very deep but it allowed me to write quite small, the two lines here are 3mm high.

I think I just discovered a new experimentation field in slate engraving.