Article · Juliet Venter Art
Illumination experiments: raised gesso, paper versus vellum
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2015
About this lesson
A calligrapher's test of raised gesso on watercolour paper versus vellum, with recipe changes (titanium dioxide for lead white) and what failed or burnished well.
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