Tag: varnish

Capri, it’s over!!!!!

And to think that it was the city of my first love!!!!!!!!

Yes, well, sorry, I’m getting ahead of New Year’s Eve or I’m late for Christmas, it looks like I’m drunk and not even 11:00 in the morning, it’s not serious.

So I get it together, I try to stay decent for a few minutes but you will admit that putting the finishing touches to a composition started more than a year ago is enough to make you happy, even if it is expressed in the form of a song by Hervé Vilard… (hopefully, if you read my blog in english you may not know about this song, it seems that an english version with quite different lyrics exists)

Here, the rust has embedded itself, the varnish is applied, I love it (unlike my wife who finds it very ugly, we can’t agree all the time).

As a reminder, the slate piece is about 30cm high

Mea culpa

I was recently telling you about things clams have to say and insisted on the fact that it wasn’t really enunciated sayings.
I first received some protests which were not really convincing.



Then I received other ones and I now have to admit that clams are not clumsy 🙂
Some can play (& even win) a tic-tac-toe game.


And others are scholarly, they know latin, psalms & english and are even able to arrange bilingual play on words.


In short, I’d like to apologize to all clams I may have offended and hope to hear from them soon.




varnish & etching done

I have finished (at last !) to remove the varnish from my metal plate so as the white (well black for the moment) vine to show up.



As the next step was the etching, I put the plate in the acid bath immediately.
Unfortunately, it remained too long in the acid and the result, even if interesting, is not what I expected it to be.



We’ll see whether the next step will improve it or not 🙂


Titivillus

Titivillus is the daemon who harass calligraphers, provoking stains and copy mistakes among other distasters.
He shows most of the times when one doesn’texpect him, here on the paper on which I wipped out the varnish from a piece of zinc.

wonderfully incandescent

Another try with engraving, this time on copper. I used an excerpt from the Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.



The copper plate was a bit too thin and the result doesn’t meet therefore my expectations.
I nevertheless find interesting the different colors appeared on the plate, due to the use of tar instead of my regular varnish. And it perfectly match the text, I think.


To be reworked but promising…