Solid Gold

Gold lamé jacket, American Apparel, $58.00
Gingham shirt, H+M, $29.00
Levi's 501 Superskinny jeans in black, Urban Outfitters, $49.00
Black and orange Venetian blind shades, NYC street vendor, $5.00
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The bulk of recent work has been working on the bulk of this Enormous Rabbit. There's a lot of embossing to be done before anything else can happen. So I embossed and embossed...


Here's what it looks like as it goes on.


And here (mostly invisible) is what it looks like once it's dry (there's a little bt near the bottom right reflecting some light). You can't really see the results of your work until the piece has been gilded and the emboss shows up through the gold. It's a little mysterious and satisfying.


I've already gilded a little bit because I'm impatient. The main gilding for Battles! will occur tonight, starting 6.30 p.m. Eastern. Have had troubling finding enough of the composition gold I'm using; everyone seems to be out in this crucial week. Hopefully 4 packs will be enough.
My open studio is this Saturday and Sunday, the 21st and 22nd, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday. Come by and see what's up! I'm trying to get everything, or as much as possible, gilded by then, to present a united front of metallic splendor.
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Here's the carved final for Moon Over Independence Park. One night I was out there with Brendan and Alissa and the moon was incredibly huge and casting a sheet of glow over the water towards us. It was a very particular cold-warm gold-white, so I chose moon gold for the gilding on this piece. Moon gold is a blend of silver, gold and palladium, and is even more fragile (!!) than 23 kt. gold, which made for some stressful times on the gilding table.


In process.

The unearthly sheen of moon gold, more so than the other metals I've been working with, cannot be reproduced digitally. Colder than gold and warmer than silver.
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I don't know if this has ever been on the blog before; it's the bottom piece of the rabbit diptych, Conquered Rabbit to hang beneath Resurrection Rabbit.



Together, but stacked inversely.