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First crack at real gilding
Aug. 3rd, 2012 12:01 pmI'd done practice pieces, this is the first piece done in anger, so to speak. The letter shapes are taken from the Maccelsfield Alphabet Book, my new favourite source for designs.
On this piece, I outlined with vermilion gouache using a crow quill, which proved a bit too heavy for what I wanted. I think the gouache was too thick for penwork.
On the next scroll, after checking with Nerissa, I outlined the gold with brown-black gouache using a W&N no 7 brush (ie soooper-fine).
I'm reasonably pleased, but think I may limit my involvement with gilding to using transfer gold (UK name - the stuff that transfers like Letraset, rather than the loose gold you lay). Life is too short to wrestle with micro-thin layers of gold, when there's important calligraphy to be done. :-)
I'd have posted this to the Dragonscribes blog, but google is telling me to turn on my cookies, and doesn't seem to acknowledge when I've done so! So I can't log in, humpf.
On this piece, I outlined with vermilion gouache using a crow quill, which proved a bit too heavy for what I wanted. I think the gouache was too thick for penwork.
On the next scroll, after checking with Nerissa, I outlined the gold with brown-black gouache using a W&N no 7 brush (ie soooper-fine).
I'm reasonably pleased, but think I may limit my involvement with gilding to using transfer gold (UK name - the stuff that transfers like Letraset, rather than the loose gold you lay). Life is too short to wrestle with micro-thin layers of gold, when there's important calligraphy to be done. :-)
I'd have posted this to the Dragonscribes blog, but google is telling me to turn on my cookies, and doesn't seem to acknowledge when I've done so! So I can't log in, humpf.
