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These are oil paintings made in gold, silver
or aluminum leaves, in an ancient technique known as gilding, which consists
of covering a surface with very thin leaves of the metal and then painting
on it. The original surface can be flat, bas relief, or 3 dimensional. The
gilding, or metal covering, allows for very rich and brilliant
transparencies of the layers of oil painting. This technique has always been
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Parrots
20 x 27 cms. aprox.
A small sized work with
lots of detail. The two parrots are in gold foil, and the background is
aluminum. Bas relief. |
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Here is a couple of pre-hispanic motifs : |
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Eagle
20 x 27 cms.
Could this be Quetzalcoatl ? Eagle body is in silver, background is
aluminum.
Bas
relief. |
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Merchant
20 x 27 cms. aprox.
A man selling his
product at the marketplace. From the mixteca culture. Oil on
aluminum. |
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Road to Heaven
35 x 45 cms.
Oil painting on aluminum
foil. Bas relief.
I like this one. Simple,
colorful and straight forward. One of my favourites. |
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Sun and Moon masks
These are a couple of
Haitian voodoo masks that I found in an old pile of trash in the attic,
where they had been gathering dust for a long while. They were pretty
damaged and in bad shape. I recovered and restored them, then covered
with faux gold and faux silver and painted them. Now they are like brand
new. They are male and female, sun and moon, gold and silver. |
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Flying eagle
25 x 60 cms.
This is a
bas relief in ceramic, covered with aluminum and oil painted. I like the
rich textures and colors of the background. |
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