Gold Leaf & Landscape Painting Workshop

Gold Leaf is a wonderful technique that has been used throughout art history. It is luminous, reflective and adds an unusual dimension to your painting. This one day class will teach students how to apply gold leaf to a landscape painting but gold leaf can be used to bring mystery and drama to any subject that you choose.

Outline of One Day Class:

A slide presentation will show the many ways to use gold leaf and inspire your imagination. After the slide show, Sharon will demonstrate how to apply gold leaf. Reference images will be provided. Tinting the panel and transferring the image onto the panel from a reference are the first step. Sharon will demonstrate how to apply the glue and then the gold leaf. Each student will then complete there gold leaf application with Sharon’s supervision. A final sealer is applied to the gold leaf to prime for painting.

Sharon will demonstrate how to paint the landscape on the prepared gold leaf panel. All students will start with a dark under painting and then continue the painting process.