Page Dazzle: Gilding with Patent Gold and Palladium Leaf (Bainbridge Island, WA)

This two session workshop is a rich and thorough introduction to laying patent gold leaf or a chance for you to revisit the process of laying gold leaf and texturing it in a variety of ways. Using thinned PVA as the base medium, we will use an array of tools and experiment with various papers and/or (calf) vellum, to create a series of samples and a decorated letter or small piece of your choice. This technique is accessible, beginning with finished samples in the first few hours of the first session.

The range of applications and effects may surprise you: tools as fine as your finest pointed brush or nib, to the broadest “hog hair” brush on a variety of papers. We will create flat (thin) leafed designs in five colors of gold leaf and palladium leaf on paper, and burnish (to create a brilliant shine) or texture our designs with various papers, cloth and thin metal or plastics to create dimension with debossing or goffering.

You may be dazzled by what can happen in two sessions, with each student doing a slightly different application by the finale of the class!

Location/Venue: BARN Printmaking Studio
For more info & pictures: https://bainbridgebarn.wildapricot.org/event-3692193
Cost/Fee: Guest Price – $242/Member – $187
Material/Studio fee: $35

Their workshop calendar: https://tinyurl.com/yy4qwlb6

Instructor and bio: Suzanne Moore is a lettering artist and designer who combines contemporary vision with traditional scribal techniques. She is a well-known calligrapher and book artist whose highly-regarded and original work is in such institutions as The Pierpont Morgan Library, the Library of Congress, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, the Berlin Calligraphy Collection at the Akademie der Künste, the James S. Copley Library and the Houghton Library as well as numerous private collections in Europe and the United States. Suzanne lives and works on Vashon Island with her husband Don Glaister and their constant canine companion, the ivory Rothko.