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Making Gessoed boards for up and coming One-Day Egg Tempera Workshop on 13th July 2016

6/30/2016

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The top photo is the flyer for the workshop. The photos below document the process on how the wooden boards(5mm external ply) are covered, first in rabbit skin glue soaked muslin (top left). This acts as an anchor for the gesso layers to adhere to.
The gesso covering is a combination of 1/15 parts rabbit skin glue to gesso powder warmed in a pan to create a soup-like consistency. Once the glue soaked muslin has dried overnight, the first layer of gesso is applied by tipping a small amount of gesso from the pan. With a brush spread into the muslin (bottom left). To make sure that the gesso has penetrated into the open weave of the muslin, you use your fingers to rub it in gently so that no holes are visible that create air pockets. The pile of finished gesso boards below..
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Pallas Athena - Goddess of many skills!

6/20/2016

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I set myself a challenge when tackling this subject!!! The first was the size of the painting. This is the first time I've created an egg tempera painting larger than 29 x  21cm (A4). As I have posted before, the inspiration came from visiting the excellent Cast Gallery at the Classical Archaeological Museum in Cambridge, UK, http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/
​ So many subjects to choose from. The following photos show the latter stages of progress with this intriguing image.
I wanted a gold colour for Athena's dress, so it meant beginning with a strong yellow, but then toning it back with a layer of white. Next item was to define the folds in the dress, this is a complicated design by the original sculptor!!!! The helm and shield are copper/bronze, (I wasn't sure which) again not an easy colour to emulate. The same goes for the scale armoured overshirt  The flesh tones on the face began beyond the verdigris base colour.
The head and shoulders on the left shows the changes I made to the final look of Athena's features. In the middle is the torso with the complicated dress design and armour shawl, this has snakes around the fringe!!! On the right are the dress hems and footwear, made simple!!! 

Below the finished painting it all it's glory!!!!!!!

This sort of original painted image on gessoed board would be sold at:
£450.00 GBP or €585 EUR.
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