Here are five new paintings recently delivered to Art on the Boulevard in Vancouver WA.
They are all 16X16 inches and painted over either gold or copper gilding with acrylic paints. There just isn't anything like the glow one gets when painting over metal leaf. I started with the most transparent paints and toward the end, if needed, I used more opaque paints. These five pieces were in process for many weeks and then were on hold as I worked on a large commission. Sometimes a painting needs to be put aside for a week or two and then placed around the house in different places with different types of lighting. Once I've studied them for a time I can then proceed to the last steps and feel that it's a finished painting and no further study is needed.
I plan on doing more work on metal leaf now and am working toward a more simplified look. It remains to be seen if I can do simplified.
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These are gorgeous, Jan. You're just getting better and better at what you do.
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