Today is my wife’s birthday.
I worked in secret for quite a while on this little drawing and gave it to her this morning. And guess what ? She liked it !
I’ve just finished a new initial with filigrees. Nothing special to say about it, it’s the kind of thing I do whithout even thinking about it now.
The first edition of Villa Mille Roses, text by Pascal Aussi, published by Christophe Chomant, is released since beginning of december.
The twenty first copies of it will be dedicated on demand so, if you’re interested, send me an email 🙂
At last, I’m done with the calligraphy of Giovanni Papini‘s short story, Corpses of cities.
I used most of my favourites techniques to do this job and I must say that I’m quite happy with the result.
Embossing on carbon paper
Having started to thin out the leaves from the book entitled “Instruction du 1er janvier 1923 sur les grenades à l’usage des troupes de toutes armes” for a work on a poem by Léo Ferré, I’m left with a load of unused leaves which content is quite martial.
I decided to take advantage of this to work on the famous sentence : “Si vis pacem, para bellum”.
While waiting for inspiration for more ambitious works, I continue with filigrees. This time it is a V and in blue shades to change a bit from the usual B&W.
As I told you last week, I’ve been working on the poem Des Armes by Léo Ferré 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.
I’ve just finished with my version of the text from The Flies by Jean-Paul Sartre.
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.
