The Gold Fairies
This is a series of drawings in pencil and gold leaf, started in 2006. I usually have some originals for sale, and every so often I add to the series. I also have prints available.
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Originals for sale:
The thumbnails in this group are all of pictures I currently have available for sale
Originals on display:
These pictures are available from 303 Gallery
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These pictures are available from Cafe Galatea
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These pictures are available from Frameus
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Sold originals:
The pictures here have already been sold.
About the Gold Fairies:
To add texture and life to the wings I have drawn into the gold leaf once it's applied to the surface. This is possible because I'm using acrylic gold size to stick the gold leaf to the paper and this stays sticky and somewhat soft, even once dry, so it's possible to drag a pencil through the surface. I then go over the surface of the gold leaf and the 'scribbled' pencil background with a cotton bud, and anywhere that the gold size has been exposed will pick up the graphite of the pencil and become quite as black as the rest of the pencil scribbling. In this way I can add a sort of shading effect to the gold leaf, which is otherwise a rather flat solid colour. I drag the cottim bud lightly around the curface of each if the individual wing segments, too, which scratches the surface of the gold leaf creating an almost 3D effect - unfortunately this doesn't really show up in the scans of the drawings as it needs the movment of light accross the surface.
All images © Nancy Farmer. Please email me if you wish to reproduce any of these images, or see my permissions page in the 'info' section. Paintings & drawings by Nancy Farmer, UK artist - Myth and fact, fairies and monsters, fetish and fantasy, with a little reality thrown in for good measure. And always art with humour.