Article · Betsy Porter
Making And Using Shell Gold
By Betsy Porter
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2021
About this lesson
An egg tempera painter explains grinding gold leaf with gum arabic into shell gold and using it for fine parallel highlight lines over tempera, applied in thin coats and burnished; a second section covers a size-and-leaf alternative for fine gold lines.
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