The frame and slip are water gilded all over in silver leaf. The flowers, words, and the incised flowers on the slip were all burnished.
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- Antony Bridge
- Cam Rackam
- Camilla d'Errico
- Caroline Griffin
- Charlie Calder-Potts
- Dave Lebow
- David Cobley RP RWA NEAC
- David Stoupakis
- Drew Struzan
- Duncan MacGregor
- Edward Noott RBSA
- Frank Frazetta
- Graham Humphreys
- Jeremy Houghton
- John Alvin
- John Hammond SWAc
- Kay Boyce
- Louise Millin Inchley
- Mat Hurtado
- Matthew Bober
- Melvyn Warren-Smith
- Michael Hussar
- Nicomi Nix Turner
- Nikko Hurtado
- Paul Raymond Gregory
- Paula-Jayne
- Peter Hodge
- Pink Harrison
- Robert Wright
- Sam Toft
- Simon Davis RP RBSA
- Steven Outram RBA
- Tom Evetts
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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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February
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