To change my mind a bit, I just made a small gilded versal on a pebble.
The patterns are inspired by those found in a 12th century manuscript and I will teach the construction of this kind of initials (but not on a pebble) in March 2023 in an online course in English that will be broadcasted by the gentle penman
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.
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.
I wish you all a very happy new year 2022, health, happiness and calligraphy :-)
And here is an A as in Appy New Year!
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.
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!
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.
For those of you who are not on instagram, I am currently participating in a little challenge launched by a group of Swedish women.
It's about calligraphy words or expressions in Swedish.
Here are my first realizations.
tindra which means "twinkle"
äntligen fredag which means "thanks god it's friday"
fika for "getting together over a cup of coffee"
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 :-)
Welcome to little Alexandre, born last week.
To celebrate his birth, a filigree initial with, for once, a bit of color.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
