Circle

My wife, who is (among other talents) an excellent framer, offered me a small round frame in mahogany tones and told me to find something to put in it.
Challenge taken up (after several failures). And I chose, you'll never guess,... filigrees!

I used two very different dilutions of the walnut stain to get a little more variety. And, if you ask yourself the question, the circle is 7.5cm in diameter.

Monogram

I post relatively little lately, it's because I have other obligations (administrative among others...) and in fact less availability for calligraphy.
Nevertheless, here is the result of a recent commission, an MCC monogram.

Prussian & cobalt blue & gold leaf

a tired little secret

Among the authors I like, there is Eric Vuillard. And among the books he wrote, I particularly appreciated La tristesse de la terre (The Sadness of the Earth). Here is a fragment of it.

I first wrote the text on standard paper before transferring with white carbon paper on a black background, then I touched up the outline of the letters and added the decoration with watercolour.

I wanted to keep the idea of the snowflake, so the text is not very readable, I give it back to you in an approximative translation: "How delicate a snowflake is! It seems like a tired little secret, a lost, inconsolable sweetness."
If that's not pure poetry, I'll eat my hat.

We bite the night

Some have pointed out to me (rightly) that I calligraphy almost exclusively male authors. For a change, here is a fragment from the novel Les Personnages by Sylvie Germain.

I made the three O's with a bit of a crate immersed in very thick walnut stain, the rest of the writing is a small humanistic made with more diluted stain.

Vulpis & Corvus

For a long time I wanted to calligraphy this fable in its Latin version because no, it was not Mr. de La Fontaine who invented The Raven & the Fox.
It's not Phaedrus either, but it's the version I chose.

And as I can't draw, I could only show in the border the fall of the cheese and not the protagonists ;-)

Monogram

For a commission, I made this monogram with the initials of both parents and those of their children.
I was only allowed to use black, so I used 3, a black from Mars, a ferro-gallic ink & an ivory black. The difference is subtle and does not really appear in the photos. The main thing is that the patrons are happy, right?

IUGAH

My godson is one year old. He is already very vocal. To keep the memory of his first speeches, I composed this little calligraphy for him.

Looking forward to other jobs of the same type, it's really nice to do:-)