Standing back and looking at the painting now that the mirror has been given the reflection of a face, and I am thinking perhaps it creates more attention than I want it to have. Tutor suggested that perhaps I should stick a real mirror onto the canvas so that the reflection is a true one of the viewers as they stand in front of the painting but I am thinking that perhaps I would like to try something else. I bought a kit of gold leaf sheets a long time ago so I want to experiment with adding that to give a reflective surface to the mirror.
I have primed a piece of canvas and am going to see how well I can add the gold leaf to that before I tackle the actual painting. I took photographs as I went along to document the process.
Kathryn Raffell, 2015, documenting the process of adding gold leaf onto canvas. 16cmx10cm.
This is very Gustav Klimt (b1862-d1918) who was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. In particular in the way he has added in gold onto his paintings, not that I am intending to adding as much gold onto my canvas (perhaps I might think about it in the future).
Gustav Klimt, 1907–1908, The Kiss, 1.80m x 1.80m.
