Moleskine + Gold Leaf + Oils (STEPS)
Hello Steemit! Todays post is about painting in sketchbook with oils on the gold leaf covered page. I never tried to paint on top on gold leaf before so it was pure experiment. It felt weird somehow to paint on gold, but not wierd enough, so I've decided to add more experimental features - this time i tried to make portrait in color using black and white photo as my reference. I chose movie still from "Sanjuro" with Toshiro Mifune, I always loved this movie by Akira Kurosawa, actually I love all his movies.
After applying gold leaf on the page I started first with drawing, this time with brush using mixture of raw umber, alizarin and black.
When drawing is done I've introduced a dark value in the hair to start from it. So the most funny part is about to begin - inventing skintones
The surface is too shiny, I want to cover it with paint ASAP, just following the values on my reference and mixing warm and cool skintones as I go
Refining more of the structure - introducing smaller planes, fixing drawing issues, adding small details.
After this stage I spent some time to fix issues with the edges, more refinement here and there...
Here is the final look of this sketch:
Hope you dig it!! Cheers!
AMAZING !! I love this portrait, @arthurgain ! you really brought such beautiful and warm skintone against that backdrop of shiney golden page !
the step by step is very well presented, also * ___ *
Gorgeous post <3
Yeah, amazing!
thanks! this shining was bothering me in the beginning but the surface is amazing, will do more oil on gold in the future
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Very interesting that you managed to paint ON TOP of the gold leaf ! At first glance I thought you would just have put the gold leaf around the portrait once dry. Amazing ! The man looks to me like a monk from the middle ages and the gold leaf adds an iconic quality. Beautifully painted portrait.
Thank you. I wanted to try paint wet-on-wet on such a surface. The paint behaves wonderfully, like a butter, Ioved it.
The depth you've captured here is breathtaking. His face is practically hovering on top of the gold. Another fantastic portrait, thank you arthurgain!
Happy you liked it!!
This is fresh! I like the elements in details especially the moleskin+ gold part ! If they had a custom moleskin with simething like this on it, i`d pay for it 🙂 Awesome work!
Bonus points for Akira Kurosawa 💜
Thanks!! You can pimp normal moleskine up with gold easily by yourself :)
Oh love it! Reminds me of those very old early paintings.
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thank you!
It somehow feels like a part of ikonostasis because of the gold color. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to say it looks religious but it reminds me of those paintings in the orthodox church.
It is a great portrait! His skin color, beard and eyes are so realistic!
Thank you for sharing! It is a beautiful piece of art!
You are absolutely right, the gold is commonly associated with sacred, especially in the East - Byzantinium Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism - they use gold a lot in decoration and depiction of deities. For me gold leaf was more like experimental surface to push paint around and it seems I liked it. The idea to try it out came when I saw Edgar Maxence's painting in d'Orsay museum in Paris a couple of months back.
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