Slate engraving

To adorn my flower pots (when there are no flowers on the plants), I'm designing little boards made of slate, engraved with filigrees.

Here are the pictures of two of them during the engraving process.

And the first one once varnished, in the mint pot

Slightly larger

To fill an order, I made a new initial, twice as large as the previous ones. It's almost 4cm high but the materials and technics are the same.

As I was holding my quill, I also made other little ones, I just can't stop doing these :-)

More greek initials

A new set of little greek initials (to continue the alphabet started here).

Today's engraving

You didn't see my first attemps to engrave flower pots, so here it is.

And, as I found it quite easy to engrave, I started a more amibtious project.

Not finished yet but here is today's achievment.

both texts are poems by Guillevic, a french poet from the XXth century.

More initials

As I didn't post here for quite a long time, you couldn't see all the tiny intials I made previously.

Here are some of them (not all of them, I didn't take pics every time and they are by far too numerous).

greek

I made tons of initials with filigrees but always using the latin alphabet.
Here is a first panel of greek initials made the same way.

Wallnut stain and ferro-gallic ink on paper, the letters are approx. 2cm high

I will probably design the whole alphabet.

I'm back

Long time since I posted here, my apologies.
Now that I feel a little bit less lazy, I'll try to keep you updated on what's going on in the workshop :-)

And today, I finished the calligraphy of a song, Alligator 427, from the french singer Hubert Félix Thiéfaine.
I've been thinking about it for years (the first drafts are from 2011 !!) and it's done !
And, as far as I can say, quite well done (I really like it).

I transferred a photograph (paint marks on a sidewalk) on an old zinc plate, etched the title using acid and ended by writing the text in NEULAND script.