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 do I know, 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, inspired by his book of signs.

And, to contrast, I have chosen a less "violent" humanistic script for the second part of the text.

I's has been a long time

So here are a few little filigrees :-)

The bright day is done...

...and we are for the dark.

I don't know if it's the end of summer approaching, the various events that are not very good in my life and more generally in the world, but this quote has been imposed on me recently.

It is based on Shakespeare's play Antony & Cleopatra.

I covered a white watercolour paper with iron gall ink, which I then embossed. And part of the text has been engraved on zinc to have both brilliance and darkness.

The script used is an approximative copy of a gothic script by Rudolf Koch that I have to keep working on to really make it my own.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Mirror mirror tell me, I am the most beautiful...

Otherwise I'll break you once more in tiny bits.

Inspired by kintsukuroi but not having the necessary amount of gold on hand, my wife repaired an old broken mirror with kraft that I then decorated with this little warning: -D

Embossing

Work in progress, preparation of a stencil for a Shakespeare quotation.

still have to glue the counterforms back into the letters and find the right paper for the embossing, almost finished in fact ;-)

Exhibition

Today is a great day, it is the day when I will set up my exhibition at the Aventurine Gallery in Le Conquet.

It will remain in place until October 1st but that is no reason to wait until the last minute ;-)

The gallery is open every day (except Monday), I will be present in the afternoons during the weekends.

Circle

My wife, who is (among other talents) an excellent framer, offered me a small round frame in mahogany tones and told me to find something to put in it.
Challenge taken up (after several failures). And I chose, you'll never guess,... filigrees!

I used two very different dilutions of the walnut stain to get a little more variety. And, if you ask yourself the question, the circle is 7.5cm in diameter.