Gold Fairy 53
Artwork details: pencil and gold leaf, 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm), 2008.
The gold fairies are a series of drawings done originally for the exhibition in Suffolk in November 2006, but they've grown as a collection since then. I've not run out of poses yet and they are a lot of fun to do. They are entirely in pencil - including all the background - except for the wings which are done in gold leaf.
Gold Fairy 53 - drawing by nancy Farmer
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 cotton bud lightly around the surface 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 movement of light across the surface.
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Original
Title: Gold Fairy 53
Media: pencil and gold leaf,
Image size: 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25 cm), not including frame dimensions
Frame: framed with glass in front
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