Gold Leaf Practice for What I am Unsure of Yet...

When the lovely and talented Rose Adare came to visit, she taught me some tips about using gold leaf.  This is a practice canvas where I can test ideas.  I want to come up with a painting idea to use it for soon, so that I can practice the technique some more while the lesson is still fresh in my head, but I haven't come up with a concept I think it would work with yet.  I'm thinking though...

Rose uses gold leafing to beautiful effect in many of her art pieces, to see her art please visit her webpage here and her facebook page here.


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Folds Practice for Angel Fairy Art Original Painting Work in Progress WIP

It seems with the angel fairy painting I'm working on, I tend to need to paint things more than once.  I decided to test two different techniques for folds on a blank panel to see which I thought would work best.  Alex feels the lighter colored one works best, so I'm going to give that a try for the work in progress.  After all, I can always go in and paint over it in the wip if need be...  Thank goodness acrylics are so forgiving!