With Greet’s scroll, that is. Got the gilding done Tuesday night. Started with a plane flat size of 1/2 glair, 1/2 garlic juice. It really wasn’t sticking like I’m used to with gesso. I ended up reconstituting some gesso with the size to a thin consistency and used that instead. I think it worked pretty well.
Tonight was on to the painting. Word of caution – Lorenzo is an enabler! I was considering playing with the pigments that I got at Pennsic many, many years ago (pre-children) and he was supposed to talk me out of it. He didn’t. So I mixed up the synthetic ultramarine that was in my little box with some of the glair and started painting. It went on pretty much like the gouache I’ve been using all these years. Very cool!!
The dragon’s blood didn’t work out nearly so smoothly. After all these years, it had turned into 3 large clumps. I crushed it up with mortar & pestle but didn’t quite get it fine enough the first go around. Ended up putting the mixed up bits back in the bowl and grinding some more. Turns out that it works much better that way and got it fine enough to work with.
At this rate, I should have the painting all finished on Saturday. 🙂