I am making progress on my materials for the course on 12th century initials and filigrees that will take place next April.
But, of course, nothing beats creating to put into practice the elements found in the manuscripts. So here is a small piece of a work in progress.
Yes, it's green (sometimes you have to get out of your comfort zone), soon a complete view of this composition and, in the meantime, you can already register for the course at the Arche de Saint-Antoine.
Last chance to follow the first course on filigrees, it will be this weekend, it will be online, everything you want to know about it (schedule, registration,...) is to be found here.
We will study the unavoidable golf clubs along with some other patterns.
I am very happy to have been asked by IAMPETH for the second year in a row to participate to IAMPETH Virtual, a set of 12 one-hour demos, online and in English with 12 professionals from all over the world.
I'll be talking (again) about filigrees but this time about a rather special pattern, spirals!!!
If you want more information, or if you want to register for one of the demos (registration possible from November 1st), just follow this link.
It looks like a movie title, the umpteenth of a too long series when the writers have lost all inspiration and the producers are pressing for a last opus in order to make the license a little more profitable.
No such mercantile practices here!
I propose you a course :
- in person, because it is time to get back to meeting people in real life
- in Isère (France), in this wonderful little medieval village of Saint-Antoine l'Abbaye, at the Arche community which will provide full board accommodation
- in April 2023 (from 21 to 23) to celebrate Anselm, Abdiesus and George
- in English and French so that everyone can enjoy it
- in pairs because Cecilia Boschi will propose a course of Italian bastarda at the same place and at the same time
We will take advantage of this conjunction to offer you shared moments of demonstrations, conferences, exchanges...
But I haven't told you what I'm going to talk about yet, have I?
Oh well, no.
So the subject will be the initials and filigrees of the 12th century, we are at the end of the Romanesque period, we feel the Gothic coming but we are still far from it, the colors and forms are still rich and varied.
From A to Z
Green!
Possibilities to make (almost) modern with medieval!
For more information, you can consult the dedicated page.
Registration is open and can be done on the Arche website.
It's really been a very long time since I've inflicted one of my filigree lettering on you. Probably because I took a break and devoted myself to other elements of calligraphy.
So here is a two-tone V with filigrees (a little different from what I usually do) and my inevitable little gilded dots.
And I take this opportunity to remind you that there are only a few days left to register for the course on split versals & filigrees that will be hosted by the gentle penman platform.
More and more in search of original shapes, I continue to experiment with lettering and distortions.
Here are two small compositions (there should be 4 in the end) with the alphabet and Arabic numerals which makes a total of 6² (easy to lay out).
As I already said, I will be giving online classes on my approach to lettering, basic shapes, mechanics, layout...
The English course will take place on July 9th and 10th 2022, info and booking here
The French version will be a little later in the season, on September 3rd and 4th. Registration is already open, info here.
Just a small note with a variation on the NEULAND, a script that I particularly like for its plastic qualities.
And as it is never enough, some filigrees to embellish the whole.
I wish you all a very happy new year 2022, health, happiness and calligraphy :-)
And here is an A as in Appy New Year!
It's that time of year so I'm sharing with you something quick made with liners, just to show that I'm thinking of you this time of year.
And if you don't find what you like under the tree, I've just updated the agenda with face-to-face classes as well as the list of online classes.
It is often difficult to find compositions to enhance a short sentence or a single word.
Luckily, there are solutions!
You are a star !
I'm offering a class on puzzle versals and how to use them for small compositions.
It will take place on November 13th & 14th, more information and registration on this page.
And don't forget, we are all stars!
I have fun with lettering and after my supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, I wanted to do something else without really knowing what.
And then I thought that this kind of lettering, not necessarily easy to decipher, could be useful. You're tired of not remembering your passwords or your wifi code but you don't want to display them too obviously? I can write them down for you!
As an example, here is a wifi code containing 8 lowercase letters, 9 uppercase letters, 2 special characters, 4 numbers and 3 latin abbreviations.
The first person to give me the right transcription as a comment on my french blog (go to the bottom of the page : https://cutt.ly/6WrOP1X) will receive the original of this code as well as a small filigree letter with the initial of his choice.
And to help you even more, here is a version of the same code without the decoration.
To answer this question, you can test yourself with this Monoyer chart (it's the french version of the Snellen chart) in Art Nouveau style.
As usual, I couldn't help but put filigrees on it
I was recently commissioned to do a street number in the Art Nouveau style and with my inevitable filigrees. I did the work on paper and with walnut ink, it will then be engraved, probably on metal by people with the necessary laser engraving equipment.
And while I'm on the subject of filigrees, I'd like to take this opportunity to announce a new (and final) online course in french on the subject on 22 & 23 May.
If you want to participate, you can register here.
...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.
