NEULAND – Page 3 – Anachropsy

Approximate proverbs

Tired of filigrees and having a dictionary at hand, I had fun (with my wife) rewriting proverbs, locutions and other maxims.

Better to be alone than badly accompanied
turns into
Better to be alone than unaccompanied

The clothes don’t make the man
turns into
the magpie doesn’t make the sparrow

the more the merrier
turns into
the more we stand, the more we shout

many are called, few are elected
turns into
many are to be peeled, few are hairy
(seems to be a kiwi proverb)

I really like the color resulting from the use of a Payne’s grey in watercolor on a pink dictionary page background.

Because I don’t thank her enough for the excellent work she does to highlight my compositions with her frames, because she deserves to be fully associated with my work, I made this little stamp for my wife.

This is of course not enough to account for all the help she gives me (you can imagine that she is not only framing my works) but she will now at least be able to put her signature on the back of the frames.

Write !

A beautiful text by Colette on the act of writing from La Vagabonde.
It’s only a fragment, she talks about it in different ways, but it’s the one that caught my attention the most.
Who knows, maybe I’ll calligraphy the rest another day?

I was very influenced by Rudolf Koch in this composition, first with the title in NEULAND, then with the gothic script, inspired by the one found in his book of signs.

And, to contrast, I have chosen a less “violent” humanistic script for the second part of the text.

IUGAH

My godson is one year old. He is already very vocal. To keep the memory of his first speeches, I composed this little calligraphy for him.

Looking forward to other jobs of the same type, it’s really nice to do:-)

The night

After a first version with a too deep black, here is a much more interesting version of this poem by Guillevic written in iron gall ink.

ABC…Embossing…XYZ

When I returned from Canada yesterday, I couldn’t resist the paper offered to me by Cynthia, one of my students, and I went back to my work desk.
A very beautiful handmade paper, very flexible, what else can I do but emboss it?

Impatient, I didn’t take the time to find a text that could have taken place on this page, I just made an alphabet inspired by the NEULAND script.

And as I had to be able to discreetly add my signature, as there was still a lot of space at the bottom of the sheet, I made some filigrees (yes, I am an addict, but you already knew that).