and for little initials
It’s sometimes difficult to find new shapes for letters but this time, I’m quite happy with the Q
Tag: watercolor
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.
Monogram
a tired little secret
Among the authors I like, there is Eric Vuillard. And among the books he wrote, I particularly appreciated La tristesse de la terre (The Sadness of the Earth). Here is a fragment of it.
I first wrote the text on standard paper before transferring with white carbon paper on a black background, then I touched up the outline of the letters and added the decoration with watercolour.
I wanted to keep the idea of the snowflake, so the text is not very readable, I give it back to you in an approximative translation: “How delicate a snowflake is! It seems like a tired little secret, a lost, inconsolable sweetness.”
If that’s not pure poetry, I’ll eat my hat.
Waldeinsamkeit
More scribbling
Monogram
Water, Fire, Earth, Air
I’m talking about azure…
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.
