How (not) to Gold Leaf

OK, here’s a couple of videos showing how I put gold leaf on my latest painting. I have actually blogged about this before, but I thought I’d show some videos this time. It’s always sheer comedy genius doing it, so enjoying laughing at my efforts.

Here’s Part One, which gets quite funny around the 5 min mark:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaAzIXzQhVM]

And here’s part two, the tricky bit:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ7ssGIntic]

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Posted by Michael Radcliffe on Oct 9th, 2008 and is filed under art, video, work-in-progress.

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2 Responses to “How (not) to Gold Leaf”

  1. ponor says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Thanks! hallelujah ;) .. It’s looking good :) Gold leaf’s tricky..Hmmm we all have to get a bit wrinkly :)

  2. artbizness says:
    October 13th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

    Yeh. It would be nice to be better at it, but I think being a master gilder would be dull. :-D

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