The Christmas holidays are approaching and you may not know what to offer your loved ones in these troubled times.
I propose you filigreed letters and monograms.
The materials (inks, paints, gilding, papers) are used according to your requests.
Prices range from 20 to 200€ (excluding shipping costs) depending on the size and complexity requested.
For any order, you can contact me by mail or by phone from the contact information displayed on this page.
some recent examples with a quartet of Payne grey lettering 2 cm high
and then a lighter blue for a D of the same size
walnut ink, always at 2 cm
And a large monogram (letters of 4cm and filigree of 10) with gilding.
It’s a bit trendy, isn’t it?
In any case, while I was emptying my boxes, I found a version of chapter 12 of the Apocalypse made a few years ago.
There is rustica and uncial for the Latin version, the French version is in carolingian.
And there is colour, too much for my taste, which is why this work sleeps in a drawer.
Fourth and last version of my fragment of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus that I was telling you about here.
The first inked version does not satisfy me so I changed for an intaglio lettering for the original version and a very small and elongated version for the French translation.
All this is done on watercolor paper, iron gall ink and Prussian blue.
My version of Genesis, in computer language (php) and in colors (as in my code editor), with the result displayed.
First, connect to server caelum (the sky) with username Moyses and password rubusarderet (burning bush) to access the database genesis.
If the connection fails, the system displays a fragment of an epigram of Martial: There is no god, the sky is empty.
Otherwise, we look for Genesis images and display them in ascending order.
If this step fails, a fragment of the Vulgate text will be displayed: terra est inanis et vacua.
The text and symbols are inspired by NEULAND with the introduction of uncial forms of abbreviations and ligatures.
Then there are the images, in iron gall ink, of the different days:
separation of light and darkness
separation of upper and lower waters
separation of land and water and creation of plants
creation of the moon, the sun and the stars
creation of birds and fish
creation of animals and man
rest
It’s been too long since I’ve posted a message on this blog. The fault is mine, mea culpa.
So here is a new work, it seems I can’t get rid of the NEULAND lately.
It’s a quote from Pascal Quignard, embossing on paper blackened with iron gall ink, insertion of golden patina by my wife.
loneliness, a precious stone, silence, darkness
Sorry for the quality of the pictures, the black of the paper is quite shiny and I couldn’t get good pictures in any lighting.
It was on hearing this serinerant slogan on the radio for the umpteenth time that I decided on my calligraphic occupation of confinement.
Most of my colleagues are involved in “challenges” and my gregarious instinct being what it is (.i.e non-existent), I had to find my own way.
So I compose from advertising slogans, one maxim a day.
Here is my production for the moment.
You’ll tell me that it’s nonsense and I’ll tell you that you’re absolutely right 🙂
