St. Francis. Oil on gold leaf - Work in progress. I imagine completing 11 more of these and merging them into a large altar piece. I imagine many things.
Walking with my wife downtown, we found this piece of wood lying on the ground. I loved the details in it so I picked it up and started this piece. I've experimented with gold leaf once before but I wanted to get more familiar with it. For this piece the gold leaf was applied using cheap vodka. They say that is what some incredible Russian icon painters used! I was originally going to paint flowers on this panel but I have such a burning desire to paint religious things that I told myself.. why not start now? To be continued..
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