rust – Page 2 – Anachropsy

S like Stele

The weather is much too beautiful to stay in the workshop trying to do some calligraphy. So I try to get some fun outside.

A small initial S, in the gothic style, first engraved on slate and then filled with rust.

It has to remain some days in the garden for the rust to look similar on the whole letter but it already looks good or so think I ?

Rusted rose

Still trying to get steel plates to rust only where I decided they have to.

Still not the expected result so back to rust under the rain. But it’s a good start, at least better than the previous ones.

Cursed be …

As promised, here are more pics of my latest work on steel. It’s a text by Pascal Quignard.
For the first time, I didn’t use varnish for the calligraphy but regular tar.

Here is a small video of the action of rust (took about 3 weeks).

And to see the whole work, have a look in the gallery.

Rust – new try

Just to make you wait until I find some time to take other pics, here is a close-up of my latest work on steel, using varnish and letting time and rust doing their job.

I wanted to use rust in conjunction with engraving. It’s now done with this short quotation from the Odes by Horatius. I think, I’ll do other works using this technique, I really like the result.

First, I engraved the slate and second, I added some filings and then waited for rust to do its job. Once happy with it, I varnished the whole to freeze the development.

You can see another detail here, to see the whole work, it’s there.

Tag: rust

S like Stele

Rusted rose

Cursed be …

Rust – new try

Carpe diem