I sized the obeche frame and slip with rabbit skin glue, this prepares the surface for the gesso. It prevents the glue from the gesso being absorbed into the wood and therefore creating a weak bond between wood and gesso.
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- Cam Rackam
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- 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
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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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