I am thrilled to be able to say that I have just played with my first
ever gold leaf. On Tuesday at Carvers a fellow carver offered me a
book of gold leaf scraps left over from some lettering that he had been
doing. There is about 15 little pages with plenty for me to play with.
I popped into town today to buy some gold size and this is my very
first attempt. As you can see by the photos my hand was a bit unsteady
with the size but that will get better with practice.
The
cross is one of my batch of salt dough medieval crosses. I stuck an
acrylic gem in the centre and the other gems are Austrian crystal. I had
painted the snakes with gold metallic paint and they look beautiful
now. Tomorrow I shall give them a second coat of size and gold leaf.
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