Filigrees, some news

 I've recently created new versals with filigrees, here is one of them :

They all are (or almost) available in my online store : www.benoitfuret.com/store/

And next year (that is to say very very soon), I will teach filigrees online again.

Filigrees, a manuscript approach is a 4 hours course (2×2 hours) where I will talk about different filigree patterns from several manuscripts.

The course (in English) will take place on January 14 and 15, from 6 to 8 PM, French time.

It will be taught via zoom and the recording will be available for one month after the live.

The cost of the course is 60€.

You can register by clicking on this link.

Happy birthday !

 Today is my wife's birthday.

As I didn't know what to give her, I started to create a new currency and I started with a big banknote, 1 million !

Cashable only with me and in nature :-)

The photo is printed (yes, I know, I should have done it by hand but that's one of the many things I don't know how to do).

Gold leaf for the control strip and the dot of the i, embossing for the number, everything else is done in watercolor, different dilutions of Payne's grey.

S as in Sarsaparilla

 A little filigree
initial with a few gold dots to delight your eyes during this holiday season.

These filigrees will be the subject of my next online course in English on January 22 & 23.

If you are interested, you will find more information here.

Blue circle

I had a leftover blue, so I took a piece of paper and filigree. The circle in the center  is about 2.5cm in diameter.

And I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you that there are still a few places left for the online course on filigree that will take place this weekend. During this course we will discuss the elements present in this little realization.

Information and registration on this page.

Online store

 I will not surprise you if I tell you that Christmas is coming. So I'll tell you that I just opened an online store on my website, you can find it here.

I have put some of my latest creations there, including this one:

And if you don't find what you're looking for, you can always contact me for a personalized commission. :-)

Filigrees online course

 There are a few seats left for the next online course in English about filigrees on September 25th and 26th.

Information & registration there

If you speak French, there's another course on October 9th & 10th.

Online filigree courses

i 'm doing a small series of filigree letters again, a little bigger than usual and with some gilded dots.

This is the occasion to announce 2 online courses on filigree.

The first one, in English, will take place on September 25 and 26, it is the first course of the series.

The second one, in French, will take place on October 9 and 10, 2021, it is called filigree 2 but can be taken without having done the first one, they are 2 courses of the same level.

You will find more information and links for registration on this page.

And I leave you with my last creations, have a nice sunday :-)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

 In honor of World Calligraphy Day, a new version of the famous Mary Poppins word.

I should have chozen a shorter one, this one is difficult to show in one picture, here is a version cut in 2, a bit bigger. The actual size is 1.5cm for the letters.

Welcome

 Welcome to little Alexandre, born last week.

To celebrate his birth, a filigree initial with, for once, a bit of color.

Waiting for inspiration

Or rather, while waiting for things to become clearer in my head about my next composition, here are my morning scribbles.

Four little Payne's gray initials with their filigree. You've already seen dozens of them, but it's always nice, isn't it?

Have had enough ?

Well, here it is again.

2 small filigree initials to announce an upcoming online course on the subject.

It will be on August 21 & 22, 2021, online and in English.

Registration here.

The letters are 2cm high, the A is in walnut stain, the C in watercolor and the dots are gilded with gold leaf.

Ionization

New version of the periodic table of elements. After a reinterpretation of the first version of the Mendeleïev table, this time I used a classification of the elements by energy of first ionization.

The abscissa of the graph is the atomic number (Z) and the ordinate the energy in electronvolt (eV).

Some elements are indicated by their symbol written on an embossed square, the others by a simple golden square with the atomic number in Roman numerals.

For the decoration, I used my small arched filigrees and a copy of the traces left by the disintegration of particles in the CERN collider.

Finally, I added some equations used in the field of ionization.

and here is the final result

Again...

 A new filigree initial, in the same style as the previous one. A D this time, still 3 cm high, still gold leaf, Payne grey for the letter and Prussian blue for the filigree.

I as in filigree

 I'm back to my obsession and present you with the latest one, a Payne grey initial I with a Prussian blue filigree and a few gold dots on the leaf.

And I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you that there are still a few places left for the Filigree 2 course in English on April 10th and 11th (registration and information here).

The letter is 3 centimetres high, a little bit more than my usual small initials.

Monogram

It's been a long time since I posted filigrees...

Here is a monogram made for a commission to make a tattoo (I think it's going to be painful).

The overall design is 15cm in diameter, acrylic paint on paper.

And, if you wonder how to make things like that, there are 2 new online courses scheduled. Check this page to get more information & register.

pimped pencil box

 How to go from this

to this

You need walnut ink, acrylic paint, a cutter, small pieces of brass, varnish and a little patience.

If you wish to see the whole work, here is a video

Variations

 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).

The flesh is sad...

  ...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.

December 25

 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. 

Shop window

 Christmas is coming and I decided to redecorate the window of my workshop.

If you have windows or a shop window that you would like to decorate for the holidays, you can find my contacts on this page.

And if you want to see me in action, there is a video available here.