Gilding
Gilding - Craft engaged in the overlap of substrate metals, usually noble. Known in ancient India, China, Phoenicia, Egypt.
gold or silver flakes, imitation gold (called szlagmetal or university), aluminum foil, tin (tinfoil) and occasionally with other metals, metal powder - the same metal from which the flakes are obtained. Imitation is a bronze (bronzy - it is met with such spelling). The powder can be placed on mikstion or mixed with a medium (shellac, varnish). Flakes of gold have dimensions 8 x 8 cm and are traditionally packed with 25 petas.
"Szlagmetal" is the best imitation of real gold. "Szlagmetal" petals are thicker than gold or silver, are also much harder. Because of its properties is only suitable in the art of gilding mikstion (you can not polish). With adequate preparation, soil, and careful flap position can be obtained excellent effects like the illusion of real gold. Szlagmetal becomes corroded (green) and therefore requires protection against weathering (I used shellac). Available in sizes 16 x 16 cm in the booklet of 100 petals.
Canvas
Canvas is made from wood: alder, aspen, pine, cedar . I choose simply version of it. Its my friend, who loves creating in wood. Drying is the most important, and that the boards were of one piece. Knots are unreliable, and otherwise work conifers. May sag over time. The wood is dried, glued in opposite directions grain growth. Then there's the grinding.
Priming
We use chalk, glue granules, the canvas and kitchen tools. A hot glue backfill slowly blend of Champagne chalk. To increase the flexibility of the soil can be added to the linseed oil.
I buy ready-mass chalk, used for priming the walls. It works just like it cooked.
Medium (pigment to binder)
This hen egg yolk mixed with wine or demineralized water. Add a few drops of clove oil.Pigments
Pigments are made of precious stones and minerals.
