TECHNIQUES

Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you an exercise I made during my painting conservation training. During this class, we focused on frame conservation and gilding. As you can see on the pictures, the top bar displays the five different colours used as background for the gilding. Each bar underneath has those five colours in the same order. Then, each bar has been gilded using different type of gold leaf, from white-ish to green-ish to red-ish gold... I found that exercise so useful, as it clearly shows how the same gold will look slightly different if placed on top of red or of black for example! I hope you'll find this interesting too, I'd love to hear your thoughts about this as well!! 🌺