Showing posts with label initials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label initials. Show all posts

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Filigrees, the origins

 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.




Monday, July 15, 2019

Back to work

The students at Rendez-Vous 2019 in Canada were so fond of my little initials that I no longer have a single one.
Time to redo (for the umpteenth time) a small alphabet in advance of the medieval festival this weekend.

I am far from finished....




Sunday, June 9, 2019

While waiting for the varnish to dry...

... on a more important composition, I continue (again & again) with my small filigree letters.




Sunday, April 28, 2019

PIES

I can't get out of it.
I barely realized a few letters when they were bought or booked. I'm not complaining, let's be clear, but at this rate, I'll never have a complete alphabet to show!

This is the delivery of the day:


Tuesday, April 23, 2019

DJNL

I continue the warm-ups, more little initials....



And if you get tired of it, make sure you know it's not over yet ;-)

Friday, April 19, 2019

HAKS

New little initials, just to regain taste and dexterity before relaunching myself into larger projects.



These patterns (and many others) will be taught during my course at the 38th International Calligraphy Congress of North America to be held this year in Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada).