I’ve been very busy recently making products and packing and shipping orders (thanks, folks!), but I have taken some time to do some talismans. I’ve been working with magic square type talismans for a while, using Hebrew letters for the numbers. The abstraction of this kind of talisman has always appealed to me, but then [...]
Lately, I’ve had a lot of talismanic work. I’ve been enjoying it. Here are some practice talismans I made. For some reason, the blue is not showing up exactly right. It’s Dr. Ph. Martin’s Torquoise Bombay India Ink with Dr. Ph. Martin’s 18-Carat Gold ink highlights, using dip pens. I did these first on Bristol [...]
I finally got the page on talismans up on the Alchemy Works site. I’ve been making them for myself for a few years now and began doing them for various individuals a while ago, but only if they brought it up (“Can you make something for me to help stop a trespasser?” for instance). I [...]