The silver leaf was distressed, given some patination and then sealed. The picture is glazed with Schott Mirogard UV plus, the mount is Colourmount bright white cotton museum board.
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February
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- Front view of the new workshop
- Starting to look like a building...
- Water gilded Valentine's frame
- The foundations are nearly finished
- Don't put art against glass!
- The foundations are being laid
- Ground works for the workshop
- New workshop plans
- The finished framing
- Gilding the frame
- The frame and slip painted with bole
- Incised detail on mount slip
- Painting on the bole
- Doing the pastiglia decoration
- The frame and slip are sprayed with gesso
- Sizing the barewood
- The mount slip ready to be joined
- Making the mount slip
- The basic frame shape is finished
- Gluing on the raised edges
- Cut out the off set corners
- Take one plain and rather boring frame.
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