29.5” x 28”
water gilded panel painting, white goldleaf, blue bole, graphite, egg tempera, sgraffito
“The Milky Way Reflected the River Bed”
2022
Traditional Water Gilding Class
Thursday-Sunday February 6-9, 2025 | Instructor: Jill London
A four-day class designed for anyone who is interested in water gilding and wants to learn more to improve their skills. The object we will gild from start to finish will be a Florentine picture frame.
Students will learn to prepare rabbit skin glue, chalk gesso, bole, gilding liquor and toners. These materials will be applied as a demonstration and each student will work on his/her own frame. Genuine gold leaf will be used and we will learn how to gild out of a book of gold. We will discuss various techniques and open up discussions about other types of gilding options and how to incorporate gilding into your work.
Jill London is one of the most experienced professional gilders in the US and a thorough and generous teacher of this ancient craft.
- Class fee: $1,550.
- Society of Gilders members: $1,525 ($25 discount)
- Materials fee: included, all materials used in class: one traditional wood picture frame, chopped and joined, 1 book of W&B gold leaf, cheese cloth, champagne chalk gesso, wet dry sand paper, cotton, mica powder, rabbit skin glue, Selhamin red clay, shellac, rottenstone, pumice powder and raw and burnt umber earth pigments. Materials will be packaged into containers for practice at home.
- Tool Fee: $92
Includes on 3″ tip single, and one houndstooth agate burnisher, available from the instructor.
Tools needed: All students should bring a gilder’s tip, gilder’s mop,sable brush, gilder’s pad, gilder’s knife. A basic kit can be ordered from W&B for $125: info@wbgoldleaf.com or call 920-459-8206 to order.
Location: Lynne Rutter Studio | 2325 3rd St. #207, San Francisco, CA (map)
Class hours: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM.
Reservations:
Space is limited and advance registration is required.
To reserve space in this class, use the button below to add your name to the list, and payment instructions will be emailed to you.
Class fee is payable in advance. Class fees will be non-refundable after January 5, 2025.
If you need gilding tools, please order them by January 5, 2025.
You do not need to purchase tools if you are bringing your own!
Note that this is a working studio with concrete floors. Please be dressed for working in a studio.
Feel free to email the studio with any questions.
Light, reflection and space created by using gold leaf and pigments all formed on planet earth. My intention is to bring more light to a period in time where we all need it. These are interior mind landscapes.
The paintings and drawings are made using handmade materials. Egg tempera made with earth pigments, oak gall ink, and sumi ink sticks are just a few of the materials used to create these works on gold and silver leaf.