What are you working on?

[stlukesguild]

Also, that's a lovely tulip painting. The blue with the gold really stands out.

Primary colors… red 9in the linear areas, blue, and yellow/gold. My wife used to ask why I seldom ever painted any blondes… although she’s a brunette. I told her honestly it was because blonde hair didn’t contrast enough with the gold leaf behind.

Kushner is one of the contemporary painters who has had a large impact on my own work. Like myself, Kushner was profoundly influenced by Asian and Middle-Eastern art and came to recognize how elements such as pattern and “decoration” which are frequently dismissed by Western Modernist critics was embraced by these cultures.

 

[Grapes]

The old masters used a reddish clay or bole under their gold leaf and you can see it peak out from the gold leaf in many places.

Now this information is something I should consider to try - and I will!! Will start this week experimenting. Also, will post here what I get done with my gold leafs.
Thank you Stlukesguild for all this valuable information you wrote here in the previous posts. I feel I now have the final solution for my gold leaf troubles. TK H-H, thank you as well for bringing up the subject, talk and all the information.

Recently I made a pile of boards prepared with clay so this comes perfectly to the picture to try gold leaf on clay. I have been painting with oils mostly pleinair on the clay boards but I will do my gold leaf study on them as well. I think I will use the glue they sold me in an art supply store in Florence. Looks ok for clay and similar type of martials.