metal leaf - Campbell`s Art Class

METAL LEAF
By Jennifer Campbell
HISTORICAL CONNECTION
• Gilding- Applying a thin
layer of gold to a
surface
• Egyptian tomb paintings
and reliefs from the
23rd century BCE are
the first known
examples depicting
gold being beaten into
leaf
• Virgin and Child between Saints
Theodore and George
• 6th- early 7th century
• Middle Ages: After the fall of the
roman empire
• Artwork was called medieval and
Includes Byzantine and Gothic
art. Byzantine art spanned the
middle ages and Gothic
happened towards the end.
• This artwork: Early Byzantine Art
(the western part of the roman
empire
WHAT DOES THE ADDITION OF
GOLD ADD TO THE PAINTING?
• Pantocreator,
Theotokos and Child,
angels, and saints in
the cathedral at
Monreale, Italy
• 1180-1190
GOTHIC ART
• Madonna Enthroned
The Chapel Arena
• Tempera and gold leaf
on wood
• 1310
• At the end of the Middle
Ages and before the
Renaissance (age of
discovery)
Sarah Petruziello
HTTP://WWW.SARAHPETRUZIELLO.COM/BLOG/?P=
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EBONY AND METAL LEAF
USING A STENCIL
PAINT A PATTERN
WITH THE GLUE
BRAD KUNKLE
BRAD KUNKLE
PENCIL MAYBE CHARCOAL
Brad Kunkle
WATERCOLOR OR COLORED PENCIL
Jackie Morris
TRYING TO GET SOMETHING TO STICK ON THE
TOP
JERRY BERG ACRYLIC
ACRYLIC
GREG DUNN
ERIC N. FAUSNACHT
CLAIR HARTMANN
Try to use an
odd
combination
of something
PAM HAWKES
MURAMASA KUD
JAC KEPHART