| Objective: Learn and master quick, easy, and inexpensive gilding
techniques. Expand and enrich the look and meaning of students'
project (art, hand craft, home decor, illuminating script, memory
books, etc.) by applying this useful gilding skill. |
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Class Schedule
Gold Leaf Painting: a fascinating world
1st Class:
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Class Introduction: attendance, go over the syllabus, supply list, get to know the classmates.
(Self-Introduction; personal history related to the art, general background, the reasons you are
taking this gold leafing class, goal, objectives, expectation for this class, etc.)
Demonstration: Applying adhesive size
Demonstration: Applying gold leaf
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2nd Class:
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Presentation: Variety of material and technique
Demonstration: Sealing gold leaf
Work Time
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3rd Class:
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Demonstration: Vinegar acid reaction, Chemtek patina reaction
Work Time
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4th Class:
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Presentation: Ideas for framing 2-D metal leafed artwork
Work Time
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5th Class:
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Presentation: Fujiko's gold leafed ink jet prints
Work Time
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6th Class:
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15 min Evaluation, Critique (and some Work Time)
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Optional presentations by requests:
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Slide:
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Traditional Japanese Style Gold Leaf Painting (Information about art history, technique, and artists)
Fujiko's gold leafed ink jet prints
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Video:
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"Italian Painting Before 1400" (20 min) Western Tempera and Gilding Technique.
"A Phantom of Kano Eitoku's Pine Tree Image" (45min)
(Frank Lloyd Wright Collection at Taliesin, Spring Green, WI.
Restoration of 18th Japanese gold leaf screens and solving the mystery of a phantom painting.)
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Tour of the
Elvehjem Museum of Art:
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(T-F 9-5, Sat.& Sun. 11-5) There are some original Italian religious gilded paintings,
Byzantine gold leafed pieces as well as Asian gilded sculptures at the Elvehjem Museum.
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Recommended Books:
-- Annie Sloan, Decorative Gilding: A Practical Guide, Retail Price: $18.95, Format: Hardcover, 96pp.
...ISBN: 0895778793, Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group, The Pub. Date: July 1996.
...(Barnes & Noble http://bn.com and Amazon.com online order, Price: $15.16 +H&S)
-- Kerry Skinner, The Gilded Room: Decorating With Metallic Effects, from Metal Leaf to Powders,
...Pastes and Paints, Retail Price: $24.95, Format: Paperback, 144pp. ISBN: 0823020819,
...Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications, Incorporated, The Pub. Date: January 2001.
...(Barnes & Noble http://bn.com and Amazon.com online order, Price:$17.46 +H&S)
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Recommended Catalogs of Art Materials:
-- DANIEL SMITH (WA), 1-800-426-6740, M-F 6am-5pm(PT), Sat. 9am-5pm(PT), http://www.danielsmith.com
-- Dick Blick (IL), 1-800-447-8192, 24hours a day, 7 days a week, http://www.dickblick.com
...(Dick Blick has more variety of products compare to DANIEL SMITH. But the price and shipping cost are
...cheaper and shipping time is faster at DANIEL SMITH.)
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Basic Materials & Supply:
"Gold/Capper/Silver Leafing Kit 831" Old World Art (about $16.00) at the University Bookstore (State Street Mall).
......(It includes: 25 sheets of Composition Gold Leaf, adhesive size, stain sealer, cheesecloth, and rough brushes.
......They are also purchased separately at the store.)
Metal Leaf: Genuine Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf, Aluminum Leaf, Copper Leaf. Composition Gold Leaf (Dutch Metal),
......Composition Silver Leaf (aluminum), Variegated Composition Leaf (black, red, and green)
Adhesive size: oil-base (Takes one hour to become tacky and stay tacky for one hour. But the surface will be smoother
......than water-base.) water-base (Takes 10-30min to become tacky and stay tacky for long long time.)
Sealer: Acrylic spray: Crystal Clear, Polyurethane, Stain Sealer (oil-base, water-base) <matte, satin, gloss finish>
Liquid Soap for washing a brush used for sizing.
Brush: Inexpensive flat brush and/or foam brush for base coat and size. Small round brushes for detailing.
Palette: ex. plastic palette, paper plate
Rag: Paper towels, old rags.
Water container: Used plastic cups like butter, Yogurt, etc.
Paint: Acrylics (gloss, matte), oil, oil pastel, Gouache, watercolor, etc.
Surface for applying gold leaf: ex. Hot press heavy weight watercolor paper, illustration board, canvas, wood,
......metal, plastic, glass, stone, etc.)
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Applying adhesive
1. Spray Crystal Clear to a board or paint the base coat with acrylic pigment to seal the surface.
2. Applying adhesive size with a cheap flat brush or foam brush.
3. Rinse the brush with soapy water.
4. Wait 10-30 min until the adhesive becomes transparent and sticky.
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Applying gold leaf
1. Washing hands if you would like to avoid leaving fingerprints on the leaf.
...(Oil from our hands will oxidize a copper based metal leaf.)
2. Applying a sheet of metal leaf. After seeing demonstration, apply gold leaf using a supporting paper
...and tissue paper from the leaf let. (Supporting paper can be a poster board,
...which is cut to be a little bigger than the size of a metal leaf.)
3. Softly rubbing the gold leaf surface with cheesecloth for taking out the excess air.
4. If you wish, applying more leaf to the spots (cracks, breaks, and edges) which were missed for the first time.
......**If you would like to leave the cracks but still have sticky surface, you can seal it by sealer.
5. Try gathering the excess leaf after applying the leaf. They can be re-used for sprinkle technique for other projects.
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Sealing the metal surface
Copper based metal leaf as well as genuine silver leaf will be oxidized and tarnished.
Therefore, we need to seal the surface if tarnishing is not desired by Crystal Clear, Acrylic spray,
and water/oil based sealer.
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Vinegar acid reaction
Cooking vinegar normally contains 5% acidity. Use disposal gloves if your hands are sensitive.
Apple vinegar is not recommended.
1) Prepare paper towel, cotton strings, cotton cloth, etc.
2) Dip a paper towel into vinegar, squeeze it but leave it a little bit dump, and put it on the composition gold
...or copper leaf surface. The paper towel can be wrinkled or flattened over the leaf, which will create a different
...pattern onto the metal surface.
3) Put some kind of weigh on the paper towel. Wait until the leaf surface started to change the color and texture to
...the point you like. It takes 30 min to as long as you would like. More you wait, darker the color the result you get.
4) Once it reaches your desired coloration, seal the surface with Poryurathyne or matte finish acrylic spray
...to avoid further reaction. (But try spray on the edge to see if the color will react by the sealer first.)
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Various material and technique
A. Oil paints.
B. Oil Pastels on the gold leaf and scratch it by a sharp pointed tool.
...Seal with Polyurethane gloss makes the oil pastel surface melts a little bit and gives glossy surface.
C. Transparency/opaque acrylic paints and inks.
D. Water base pigments directly out from a tube.
E. Color Base Coat with acrylics for crack showing through, scratch technique, and sand paper texture.
F. Printing an image on a thick paper and gold leafing on top of it.
G. Glue mold, glittering, powder shell, gesso, acrylic gel and modeling medium
H. Sand paper texture
I. Chemical reaction with copper based leaf: vinegar and Chemteck solution (safe and easy solution.)
J. Combination of different kinds of metal leaf (layers and sprinkles with excess leaf.)
K. Cutting metal leaf using tissue paper and scissors, or a dull knife (and leather pad.)
L. Gold metallic spray and gold acrylic paint
M. Base drawing on the metal leaf surface using a tracing paper and a graphite.
N. Claybord (closer to traditional gilding painting surface.)
O. Reproduction of 2-D metal leaf piece by color Xerox
P. Gold leafing on the birch tree and bamboo skin
Q. Glass wares
R. Use shell, stone, found objects.
S. Shoe polish over the scratched surface.
T. Sharpie and other permanent marker.
U. Stamping technique using size.
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Framing and presentation of your 2-D art
Frame: Wood or metal molding. (Color natural wood, brown, black, gold/gilded.)
Mat Window: White/off white, black, color from the piece. (Double mats with the same color mats.)
Glass: Protection for the artwork. Also it is better to have a space between glass and artwork.
...Humidity gets in and if the glass touches the artwork, the water will be push against it and ruin the artwork.
...A glass needs to be raised by a mat window or space bars.
There are many 2-D gilded sample images and gilding related web sites links on my web site at
http://webpages.charter.net/crrey/fujiko/extra/GL/Metal.html
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