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Oxidized Silver!

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David Slade
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Re: Oxidized Silver!

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Is that osidized leaf or powder?
The leaf loses it's shine and goes dark with water gilding. That worked out okay for contrast on what I was doing. It has actually lightened with age/tarnish. Kent Smith had success using Aquasize with blue oxidized leaf. It works ok on surface gilds if you keep in mind the color variations and work it into your design.
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"One of the finest pictorials I ever saw was in Slat Lake City, almost thirty years ago. It was a large Lincoln head in black and gold. The window had been leafed solid and well burnished, then the details and shadows were scratched into the gold with a short fitch brush, and the whole job backed up with black."
A quote from Sign Painting Course by E.C. Matthews
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