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!! 🌺
Thank you for sharing this, it is so eloquent and interesting!
Thank you for sharing this @Cécilia Duminuco! this is so interesting and helpful to see!!
Precisely! Let me know if you ever do the gold on paper test too! :-)
Thank you so much for sharing this Cecilia! I've been verbally trying to explain this for years - that 'the ground always strikes through' and you will feel the underlying colour even if you can't see it immediately - and you've spoken 1000 words with just 1 picture. Thanks for making it visual and easy to understand! It's also great to have your expert conservation eye here, as well as @Alison Guest 's expert art historian eye!
Thank you so much, Cecilia, for sharing this information. Even though I don't have a conservator's training and expertise, I am fascinated by color and always do many samples to test color and texture effects and combinations.
Oh this is just fascinating! Thank you so very much!!!!