It is amazing how much better this effort at guilding is! With the addition of a little honey, I am able to use much thinner coats of the gum size. Which means it is really flat and much, much smoother. I am a bit embarrassed at how bad the guilding was on the silver hammer scroll.
This guilding is sooo flat!!! Woot! It could still be more even, but maybe that will come in time. Another big helper here… for my birthday, my sis sent me one of those hands-free magnifiers that fits on your head like a visor. MagEyes is the brand. It was so nice to be able to do this with two hands.
The second picture, on the right, shows it with some color. I’ve been trying to apply layers of transparent color rather than glopping on one thick opaque one. On the monoceros body, I applied a thin layer of raw sienna yellow ochre to the areas that would be red and where the shadows are.
OK. Gotta run. The laptop is effectively dead so blogging will be sporadic and short… or moreso than usual.
