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live filigree

Here is a short video of a filigree pattern I made for a demonstration.
The video speed has been increased, the real duration is about 18 minutes.
And the result is approximatively 3cm wide.

I’m going to post here the most interesting (or so I believe) works I made these last 2 years and that were only posted on the french version of the blog.
I hope you will like it even if it can be considered as old stuff.

The concerned posts titles will start by “OLD STUFF”.

To begin with, here is a set of short poems by Guillevic (french poet of the XXth century).

I made them on paper, using the same script (humanistic minuscule) and the same design. The adornment in the circle is supposed to echo the text.

clouds

clock

leaves

bramble

trees

appearance

moon

sun

Slightly longer

Once more, an initial adorned with filigrees (I promise, I’m going to work on other subjects soon). This time an F, a long one to create a bookmark.

And a set of little ones, to continue with my alphabets.

Slightly larger

To fill an order, I made a new initial, twice as large as the previous ones. It’s almost 4cm high but the materials and technics are the same.

As I was holding my quill, I also made other little ones, I just can’t stop doing these 🙂

More initials

As I didn’t post here for quite a long time, you couldn’t see all the tiny intials I made previously.

Here are some of them (not all of them, I didn’t take pics every time and they are by far too numerous).

greek

I made tons of initials with filigrees but always using the latin alphabet.
Here is a first panel of greek initials made the same way.

Wallnut stain and ferro-gallic ink on paper, the letters are approx. 2cm high

I will probably design the whole alphabet.

happy new year

I didn’t post a lot lately. Partly because I had no time, partly because I’m lazy and partly because I was busy creating new stuff.
To apologize, I wish you happiness, health and prosperity for this new year.
And, as for a new start, here is a how to create a wish thing with a minimum of material and by recycling daily things.

1- take a lid from a jam pot (or other lid from other pot, beans is also a good choice).

2- draw, calligraph your text, pattern, thing with a marker on the lid.

3- Remove the paint with a nail (like the one that can been seen on the bottom right of the image) or any other tool suitable.

4- Once the pattern totally clean from the paint, use a battery connected to cotton bud to electro-etch the cleaned surfaces.

5- To remove the remaining paint, you can sand the lid or, if you’re as lazy as I am, just use a soldering lamp to burn the paint (beware of the fumes, probably very toxic !)

You’ll have to end with a bit of sanding with a emery cloth and that’s it !

Once you’ve taken a good pic of your etched lid, everyone will envy you 🙂

And if you prefer something more traditionnal, here are Jacques Brel‘s wishes on January 1978.

Xmas is approaching fast

As I had some time last weekend, I did this…

Little work, filigrees based on circle shapes, each circle being different. It’s not unintersting but it could do with a little more mork. If I have some time before the end of the year (I don’t think so), I ‘ll do another version.

Declaration

Work in progress. Little by little, my latest work is coming to its end.

Still have to write the title and its decoration, hope to finish this before the weekend…

some text

I’ve been quite busy these last ime, preparing my latest exhibition but I didn’t work only on this !
I worked very hard on a new project with quite a lot of text and in a much larger shape than what I’m used to. Until now, I spent about 30 hours working on it, I think I’ve done the most of it. Until I can say it is finished or failed, here is a picture.

Next steps next week if everything goes well.

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