how many times do you happen to leave a good piece unachieved, promising yourself to give it soon the beautiful final form you "have in mind"?...then you start watching it and mumbleing again and again, but no solution comes - so that the nice unfinished page wanders around your desk for months, until you make up your mind and add something that ( Read more... )

François Villon, from "Ballade a s'amye", ca. 1461 ( Read more... )

an essay with different inks (Fabbrica Italiana, circa 1930/40s) and vintage pointed nibs for this essay in greek cursive on my Amalfi handmade silk 90% paper: the quote is mine (oh, gosh!) as well as the mistakes: I missed a [με] in the last line and distractedly wrote [χρώμα] with an [ο] trying then to create - although a similar one DOES already ( Read more... )

after Richard Bach's "Illusions" - parchment paper, seagull quill, carmine, nut brown, circa 22 x 24 cm:


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a bit of training with my old and beloved hawk quill (circa 1 mm), a sheet of Amalfi handmade paper (new series, 140 g/mq 85% silk) and Maestro Ernesto Casciato's pomegranate ink:


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a freehand exercise on Cataneo hand - see the link below:


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la MAIN d'Arthur Rimbaud et sa "lettre du voyant"


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