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 🙂
Tag: ink
scumble draft
Again a draft, it was a proof of concept for something that has nothing to do with this but my wife not only forbade me to throw it away but forced me to give it to her (it’s quite normal as it is her first name).
Actually, the more I look at it, the more I like it and the more I want to do other things with the same technique.
While I thought that I was learning how to live…
I had this small piece of paper and a few hours to spend lately, I took advantage of this situation to calligraphy this short sentence by Leonardo Da Vinci.
I chose to use only black & white, first because I love B&W (in case you didn’t notice) but also because the contrast meets the contrast that exists between the two parts of Da Vinci’s quotation.
To see the whole work, click here.
Wedding
This week-end, among other things, I got married.
I didn’t have much time to make the most of my calligraphy skills but I nevertheless did some little things.
My tie clip
The wedding box
The borders of the table clothes
It has been a magical moment and I thank everyone who was there (even just by thought) to celebrate this turning point in our life.
Walnut stained vine
No time nor inspiration these times to create any calligraphic work but nevertheless itching to use my nibs and a rest of walnut stain at the bottom of a glass…
So here is the result, a small illuminating based on white vine only colored with walnut stain and my loved filigrees to encase it.
For the whole work, have a look at the gallery.
Poem by Léo Ferré
As I told you last week, I’ve been working on the poem Des Armes by LĂ©o FerrĂ© and it’s now finished.
I started with a collage of leaves from a book found at a secondhand bookseller which title is “Training of the 1st january 1923 on the grenades for use by troops from any army”, I found it would make a perfect background for this poem which title could be translated into “Weapons”.
I eventually added the text, using a revisited NEULAND, I will soon post a model of it for those who would like to follow me.
Till then, to see the whole work, have a look in the gallery.
NEUNEULAND
I hafe just started to work on the poem Des Armes by Léo Ferré. I took the opportunity to rework a bit the NEULAND script designed by Rudolf Koch.
New ligatures, retouch of edges and new shapes for some letters. I nevertheless feel I’m just copying my master without being really original except for the B, inspired by the insular manuscripts from the end of the first millennium.
The Flies – final version
I’ve just finished with my version of the text from The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre.
You can see the whole work by clicking here.
As it is quite long, one cannot really see anything on this pic, that’s why I took close-ups :
The Flies
A long time ago, I did a draft using bits of the text The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre.
I eventually find the energy to get back to it, here are a few pics of the work in progress.
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 abĂ®me…
I spent loads of time on it but I’m very happy with the result.