Canada, here I am !!

Tomorrow is the departure for the 38th International Calligraphy Conference of North America where I will have the pleasure of teaching filigrees for a whole week.
In the meantime, I have prepared some pockets for the participants.

one of the pockets, opened.

recto

verso

This tree & its shivering

It had been a long time since I had read Antonin Artaud, long since I had calligraphied a pretty gothic fraktur.
It is done, here is The Tree.

zigouigouis

in other word, more little initials (and even stains) with filigree

I promise to stop soon
or... maybe not ;-)

spring roll

Whew, just before the solstice, thanks to my wife, I managed to create two rolls to store brushes, pen-holders and other tools.

The two closed rolls

The first, with red buttonholes and filigrees, with some tools.

The second, with a reworked NEULAND lorem ipsum and its black buttonholes filled with different brushes

The same but without the tools

And finally, the back of this second bag

New game

Yesterday, I invented a new game. It's called hide & stain ;-)

You take a garment whose stains are so well inlaid that it is impossible to make them leave and you calligraphy something over it in order to hide them.

While waiting for the varnish to dry...

... on a more important composition, I continue (again & again) with my small filigree letters.

Like a tune of freedom

A new poem by Guillevic, still the same size & the same colors.

Just a J

Driven by my momentum in my border of filigrees, I composed this J.

Alizarin paint for the letter, a few gilded dots to bring light and a rectangle of filigrees to finish.