I've been very busy lately with my online courses and I haven't had much time to create new works even though I have (as always) a lot of projects in my cartons.
To make you wait, a few small letters with, once is customary, a little color (I admit, my palette is limited).
...alas, and I read all the books
Fragment of a poem by Mallarmé realized on a page of a dictionary (the book par excellence).
And, to be a little in my era, I calligraphed these verses with a palette pen by reinterpreting a typeface, the COURIER NEW whose spaces are somettimes bad and which still are in my interpretation.
The whole was calligraphied in Payne's grey and, for decoration, a little bit of watercolor with some white and ultramarine blue.
The Christmas holidays are approaching and you may not know what to offer your loved ones in these troubled times.
I propose you filigreed letters and monograms.
The materials (inks, paints, gilding, papers) are used according to your requests.
Prices range from 20 to 200€ (excluding shipping costs) depending on the size and complexity requested.
For any order, you can contact me by mail or by phone from the contact information displayed on this page.
some recent examples with a quartet of Payne grey lettering 2 cm high
and then a lighter blue for a D of the same size
walnut ink, always at 2 cm
And a large monogram (letters of 4cm and filigree of 10) with gilding.
A new composition with a NEULAND reworked on a text by Emile Zola proposed by my wife.
The writing was done with a piece of wood and watercolor (Payne gray), the decoration is inspired by the tiled backgrounds of the Gothic period with a line whose center is the O of glory at the penultimate line.
I used several blues and greys as well as gold leaf for the small decorative elements.
The paper is a mixture of hemp and linen with straw inclusions.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind you that I will be conducting an online course (in french) on NEULAND on December 12 & 13. All the info on the page that lists my courses here.
As the 2 first courses are full and, as I had to cancel IRL courses because of the lockdown, there is a new course available 21 & 22 November.
Registration to be done on zoom with this link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PMnnA0ueQ2OnEfxKgRAC-w
We will study things like that
Hello,
As some of you have already seen, I now offer online courses.
You can find the list of courses and the agenda on a new page of the site here.
And, since I am talking about these new ways of taking a course with me, I am announcing that I will be offering a course on the basics of filigrees on November 17th & 18th, followed by a course on the NEULAND on December 12th & 13th. Both of these 2 courses will be taught in French. An english version will be planned later
To register, please use the links available on the above-mentioned page.
And to make you want one or the other, a small picture...
I'm happy to advertise my first online courses on filigrees.
FIL (igrees) courses on zoom in english, 15 virtual seats per course.
It's a bit trendy, isn't it?
In any case, while I was emptying my boxes, I found a version of chapter 12 of the Apocalypse made a few years ago.
There is rustica and uncial for the Latin version, the French version is in carolingian.
And there is colour, too much for my taste, which is why this work sleeps in a cardboard box.
Good news for the lucky holders of the ABC d'Airs box set.
The QR code printed inside finally leads to something!
For those who haven't invested yet, now is the time :-)
It's been far too long since I've posted anything. Various contingencies have kept me away from my computer.
For my return, I am delivering a monogram that I made a few weeks ago but that I didn't want to show until it had arrived in Australia, at its addressee's home. It's done and so here is Linda's monogram, LCK, hand-made linen paper, gold leaf gilding and, as far as colours are concerned, a mixture of Payne grey, Prussian blue and cobalt blue.
The circle of filigrees is about 8 centimetres in diameter.
On the 17th and 18th of October, I'll give a course on the second bible of Charles the Bald (writing and decoration) at the cultural centre of Welkenraed.
Originally planned for April of this year, it could not take place because of the pandemic.
There are still places available (with masks and distances) for fans.
So if you don't want to be the one who doesn't get the fries in the same package, contact the cultural centre quickly to register!
I can't wait to go back to Belgium and eat those crispy fries, whatever the package ;-
A work for four hands and above all for two brains. My wife offered me this fragment of Zola's Germinal. And we both worked on the composition, the writing, the colours.
Then, of course, once I had finished scribbling on the paper, she did the framing.
I am very happy with the result.
The writing is a 16th century humanistic, and I am happy to have gone back to an older type of decoration, the tiled background for the strip on the side.
Different dilutions of Payne's grey and leaf gilding to bring the light.
A sudden craving for white vine and, as I've been doing too much blue lately, grey, Payne grey, gold in shell and still a bit of Prussian blue to finish.
In a small gilded frame found by my wife, it makes a very nice decoration.
