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The showers were more numerous than expected this weekend so I had time to finish my initial T.

The filigree square is 5 cm wide.
The gilding is made with 24 carat gold leaf on acrylic gesso.
The letter as well as part of the filigree is made in Prussian blue and the other part of the filigree in cobalt blue & the support is an handmade linen paper.

Break

It’s tiring to go from page to page in a manuscript to collect the initials, study them so as to reproduce them and finally copy them so as to transmit them.
So, I take a little break on the Lindisfarne Gospel and I come back to my marotte, the filigree initials.

Last commission before Xmas

If you want me to draw an initial or to write a text for this Xmas, it’s too late. I just finished the last commission & will not be able to do anything else before Xmas (you can still buy some of my older works 😉 ).

Here are some pics of the different steps of the work.
The instructions were a blue R and something about the sea. I looked at some old medieval maps and let my nib ramble on the paper.

gilding & painting of the letter.

Drawing of the structure of the filigrees and first pattern
End of the cobalt blue filigree
End of the end of the final thing
I used prussian blue & colbalt blue (watercolor), gilding is done with gold leaf over acrylic gesso as usual, the whole thing has been made on Arches watercolor paper.

M etc

Very few time this weekend to work on my ongoing projects, not to mention the cold & the rain.

So I drew an initial…

with filigrees…

those of you who follow this blog would have noticed that the filigree pattern is almost identical to the one used here.
And if you didn’t notice, who cares ? 😉