Workshops

I have finished composing my Art Nouveau lettering model from Ver Sacrum, I still have to work on a few decorative elements but, in the meantime, I am practicing a bit by preparing the workshop certificates for Montreuil Bellay.

I will propose a workshop on this Art Nouveau lettering in my workshop in April, the weekend of the 4th & 5th. If you are interested, you can already contact me to register.

Pangram curtain

The winter sun is sometimes annoying when I work in my workshop, so my wife made me a curtain.
But I can't leave a fabric of this surface untouched! I have to scribble on it!
And as I didn't know which text to use, I fell back on pangrams in several languages.
The advantage is that it will give my trainees ideas when they take calligraphy classes in the workshop and don't know what to write.
I'm only at the beginning, I started with a pangram in English and in NEULAND.

I continued with a German version in Gothic fraktur...

the next one will be a French version, soon...

Art Nouveau

I am currently working on a new template for an Art Nouveau alphabet from the magazine Ver Sacrum, published between 1898 and 1903. It is an extraordinary publication, both in terms of the lettering and the illustrations and texts. The Heidelberg Library offers a complete digital version of all the magazine's occurrences. I'm enjoying it!
As an example, here are a few monograms and ligatures picked out here and there.

Mobile

 In order to let pieces I have just varnished dry for a project that will incorporate other elements, I have hung the different parts in the workshop.
I almost feel like leaving them like that, they make very nice motives.

Well, I'll take them down once they're dry but I'm keeping the idea for later and create mobiles using cadels letter elements in metal, it's going to be great !

Soapstone

First attempt at soapstone carving.
It is really very easy to work, the difficulty lies more in the fact of not making marks when manipulating the piece as this stone is very soft.

The stone is about 4cm high and no, it is not the beginning of an alphabet but simply the initial of my wife's first name and mine.

A

A small commission, the letter is 3cm high.
Prussian blue, cobalt blue and gold leaf on paper.

The secret I'm looking for...

End of year, end of composition.
I'm done with the fragment of "L’Été" by Camus.
Partly in NEULAND, partly in Gothic, both scripts being inspired by Rudolf Koch.

Watercolou, iron gall ink and gouache on kraft paper.

And I take this opportunity to wish you a very good New Year's Eve & an excellent year 2020.