all that glitters
landscapes on gold leaf
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Below is a small gallery of my more recent work on gold leaf.
Working with gold leaf is something I had wanted to do for years
but never took the first step until the summer of COVID in 2020.
Because I was not teaching in the studio, I had time and space.
I decided it was time to risk jumping into something I knew nothing about.
This became a form of jazz painting for me.
An improvisation with media that I knew:
Chinese ink and watercolors, particularly stone blue and stone green.
But on a surface that I didn’t know—imitation gold leaf.
I quickly became smitten with the way I could play with semi-transparent
pigments, opaque pigments and watch them behave in unexpected ways.
Some became permanent on the gilded surface, others remained workable.
View the complete catalog of Bob’s 2024 show
all that glitters
landscapes on gold leaf
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30 paintings using Chinese ink, watercolors, colored inks and acrylic media.
click on button below to download pdf of catalog.
View creation stories of 3 paintings from this exhibit.
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click on button below to download pdf of 3 creation stories
A work in progress.
Below is a video of the creation of dreams of six grandfathers
view the creation of a five-panel folding gold leaf floor screen
as brush painter Bob Schmitt envisions a view of the six grandfathers.
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