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Week #21
This work was done by Nita Padamsee in Boston in 2011for the third session, "Illumination on Vellum". In her own words:
Asked by Reggie to render our version of the Codex Aureas, I used the words IMAGINE & PEACE. My inspiration was John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine.’ For me it was only appropriate to render this in true 70’s style!
It was a fun project, but extremely challenging to cover the word ‘Imagine’
with gold. The piece is approximately 11” X 6.5”, done on calf skin vellum.
For the gold, I first applied gesso and then the instacol, before laying down the gold leaf. You have to make sure that the instacol covers all the gesso by using the OptiVisor or a magnifier. In spite of that, laying down the gold so that it would adhere to the instacol was tricky to say the least. I had to apply several layers of gold and still had a hard time making the gold stick. Personally, I prefer just using the instacol without the gesso. In this case however, I wanted to have the word ‘Imagine’ have a ‘raised’ look and therefore put down the gesso as the first layer.
The color work was done with Winsor & Newton gouache and I used the black Micron marker for the outlines. I used a ruling pen for the lines of the staff.
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