Sunday, March 17, 2019

County scroll, part 15

The main gilding is finished! Finally!  

Here's the before and after pic for today's work. The first is the adhesive I laid down...

And the second here is all the gold laid in...

There are still a few bare spots to touch up, but overall, I'm quite pleased. And of course, I have some mottling to deal with, where the silver stick to the copper, or the gold stuck to the silver. The worst of those areas is up here on the top right corner: 

But I can deal with all of that tomorrow and finally be ready to paint! 

I can identify very well with the scribes of old who wrote complaints and comments about their work into the margins of the old manuscripts. Deo gratia, deo gratia, et iterum deo gratia, indeed. 

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