30 day challenge, day 9 continued - just to rub it in...

[abendgules]

What makes the gesso thing really annoying is that the non-medieval glues work a treat in comparison - first try, most of the time. This gold is laid using Cornelissen's improved gold body, on a selection of bookmarks.

Again, this is transfer gold (22.5k), the rub-off stuff. I have a book of it, whereas I have only a sheet and a half of loose leaf gold (22k), so I'm using the loose sparingly.

These critters are from the same 13th commentary on the Psalms that I used to model Katherine Percival's Pelican. They're very cheery looking monsters with very sinuous necks.

On another note- how do I get the page to lay flat? all my gilded samples are curling like crazy.

Comments

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

Use as heavy perg as possible and tape it to your board/slope to avoid curling.

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

In woodworking, we finish both sides to avoid warping. Priming both sides of the paper might work-but I'd expect to see that noted in books.

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

That's true, about finishing both sides. I don't expect to lay gold on both sides of most pages, at least, not outside of a bound codex.

I suspect that I've laid a lot of gold for the area of the pieces, so it's having a larger effect than it would on a whole page.