Eternalize just one hour of love...

Well, the text I showed you the initial E is finished.
It was a fragment of L'Eve future by Villiers de l'Isle Adam.

You can see the transcript of the complete passage here.

We've got to make things

So as I have a lot of time, I decorate the ceiling of my workshop with 0 and 1 stamps (hand-made by cutting out old erasers), a binary translation of a text by one of my favourite authors, Albert Caraco.

I've "written" about one twelfth of the text for now, I think I'll be done before the end of the confinement :-)

Be well and stay home

E ?

Little exercise to pass the time: what romantic text am I working on?

The clue is of course the letter which starts the text (and the gilding is part of the solution).
As it's a bit tenuous, another clue is prose, it's in French and I've already calligraphed a text by this author.

Whoever gives me the author's name will get something when the post office starts working normally again.
And another thing for the person who finds the passage in question.
Take care and stay at home :-)

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

The flower on the vermeille mouth...

I've finished the fragment of Théophile Gautier I was telling you about a little while ago.

Of course, it talks about a flower, so I made a flower in filigree. And, as I wanted a little colour to echo the "vermeille" of the text, I added other filigrees, in red this time.

Work in progress

An excerpt from a poem by Théophile Gautier, using Art Nouveau letter forms.

This is where a light table is useful...

Ars Longa

It's a tired old saying, but it's nonetheless true.
And it's also my way of telling why I haven't posted for far too long.

I first took part in the book fair in Montreuil-Bellay, with courses given before and after the fair, then I got back home and, since then, I've been working on the next courses I'm going to give, the first on the list abroad being the one on the second bible of Charles the Bald in Welkenraedt next April.

So here's a reinterpretation of the decorated capital letters that will be taught during the course (I still have to create the minuscule model so don't expect any new posts in the near future).

Charles

Today is St. Charles the Good.
Bad luck, I'm working on the second Bible of Charles the Bald...

Here are some A's found in the manuscript and some border elements with small dots.

For those who are interested, I give a course on the subject on April 18 and 19, 2020 at the cultural center of Welkenraedt.