Gold

October 28 saw a very special day with Robin Tait, from Endangered Heritage. The subject was GOLD! We learnt so much about working with gold leaf lifting it carefully from a cushion, putting through a sieve for a wonderful effect called Zarafshan. The base for the gold was gum arabic - with or without indigo paint in it. Then we learnt how to make shell gold, and went through vast amounts of gold leaf to produce a very small amount of shell gold! No wonder it is so expensive! We produced some examples of work with gold too, ending up with painting a fine line in shell gold. This was done on top of a wash of very dilute shell gold.  The ideas that came from this workshop are spinning around in our heads. Thanks Robin for a great day.
Many thanks to Cherrie Grant for the photos.