Partial reply, because I'm up to my eyebrows in work and snow-shovelling right now, and I would spend all afternoon talking about this :)
Adding gold leaf to paintings was all the rage when my friends and I were creating fan art. We were peculiar. I remember people laughing when they got to "gold leaf" in the medium description. Being a sensitive teen, I of course figured they were sneering at it. Probably they were just surprised. I have some gold leaf in my art supplies that I put away in a safe place for later use in a Fayum-style portrait. Of course, "in a safe place" means "don't remember where I put it."
I'd heard that some pigments change hue the finer they're ground. I'd noticed that the Rublev's Malachite (0-30µ) is a different hue than Kremer's less-fine 50µ Malachite--intentional difference, I assume?
My Egyptian Blue needs some help in the mulling and binding department. Glass mullers are so costly. I'd been looking for an alternative, but was worried that a stone mortar and pestle would be too porous.
OK, I have more to say, but I'd better get back to the grind (har har).
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Date: 2017-03-14 03:52 pm (UTC)Adding gold leaf to paintings was all the rage when my friends and I were creating fan art. We were peculiar. I remember people laughing when they got to "gold leaf" in the medium description. Being a sensitive teen, I of course figured they were sneering at it. Probably they were just surprised. I have some gold leaf in my art supplies that I put away in a safe place for later use in a Fayum-style portrait. Of course, "in a safe place" means "don't remember where I put it."
I'd heard that some pigments change hue the finer they're ground. I'd noticed that the Rublev's Malachite (0-30µ) is a different hue than Kremer's less-fine 50µ Malachite--intentional difference, I assume?
My Egyptian Blue needs some help in the mulling and binding department. Glass mullers are so costly. I'd been looking for an alternative, but was worried that a stone mortar and pestle would be too porous.
OK, I have more to say, but I'd better get back to the grind (har har).