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Advent decoration 1
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Using a stencil to make a pastiglia (raised gesso) pattern on a Christmas tree decoration. Water gilding with 23.75ct gold leaf.
Advent decoration 3
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Advent gilding day 3. Verre églomisé is a French term meaning the process of applying leaf onto the rear face of glass to produce a mirror finish.
Advent decoration 4
Oil gilding over gold paint and a metal key using 23.5ct gold leaf.
Advent decoration 7
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Gesso re-cutting, water gilded in 23.75ct gold leaf. Re-cutting is what etching on gesso is called.
Advent decoration 8
Parcel-gilt, oil gilded in 22ct yellow gold leaf. Parcel-gild is when a piece is partly gilded, the rest can be paint or wood.
Advent decoration 9
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Fake Kintsugi, attaching together some ceramic shards with epoxy glue and gold powder paint.
Advent decoration 10
A plaster cast of Luna's paw print, water gilded in moon gold leaf. Oil gilding compo decoration in moon gold and black polish to the picture frame.
Advent decoration 11
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A button star sizes with acrylic gold size and gilded with Caplain leaf.
Advent decoration 12
Applying sand as a decoration to an angel mdf cut out, gilded in Caplain Leaf using both water and oil gilding.
Advent decoration 13
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Making a paper mache half bauble, oil gilding in 23.5ct gold leaf. card moon and stars gilding with the Kolner instacoll high gloss in moon gold and white gold.
Advent decoration 14
Punchwork is a decorative textured finish punched in to gesso. This decoration is water gilded then a pattern punched using a nail punch. Also some burnishing.
Advent decoration 15
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Taking a pineapple mould from an antique mirror, pressing it out in compo. Water and oil gilding with 23.75ct gold leaf and 18ct lemon gold leaf.
Advent decoration 16
Kolner Miniatum is for gilding on flexible surfaces.
This decoration was made by bending wire into a sheep and star shape. Then gilding a piece of plastic and gluing that to the wire.
Advent decoration 17
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Melting chocolate, pouring that into moulds, gilding with 24ct gold leaf using confectioners glaze.
Advent decoration 18
Pressing out a compo cherub head and wings. Water gilding in 23.75ct gold leaf and 7.2ct white gold to look like the gold and silver Italian style.
Advent decoration 20
Creating a robin from string then oil gilding in 23.5ct gold leaf and 6ct white gold leaf. Christmas tree decoration.
Advent decoration 21
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Making a hen pattern with crushed egg shells. Trying gilding with egg whites for the first time without a recipe.
Advent decoration 22
Sgraffito is painting over burnished water gilding then scratching a pattern through the paint to reveal the gold underneath.
Advent decoration 23
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Shell gold is real gold paint. Which can be used like water colours. Christmas tree decoration.
Advent decoration 24
Compo decoration applied to a gessoed bauble shape then oil gilded in a silver leaf tinted bright pink and blue.
