original ink drawing with gilded moon and gilded details.

Here you can see the mighty Moonbear, his tail carrying the planets of its solar system... I wonder how many sunbears may roam this universe?

Materials:

14,8x10,5 cm
* Fabriano Studio Watercolor Hot Press 15% cotton Paper, 300 g/m2
* Lefranc Bourgeois Nan-King India ink

* real gold leaf
* real silver leaf
* miniatum ink
* gilder's mass and ground, bole

The moon is gilded with genuine goldleaf. I used a traditional technique for it, and it is made of a plaster-like material. Because it is very tiny, the process is a bit difficult and the gilding might have little red areas (that's were the surface called "bole" beneath shines through )the beams and little dots are also made with leafgold, but the gold sticks to a synthetic adhesive.

not vegan friendly, I used hideglue and shellac.

PLEASE NOTE
* You will need an "object frame" (with a distance between background and glass) , because the sun is several mm thick. On the photo I used this frame.

* Do not bend the print too much and don't scratch of the gold/silver surface. Handle with care.

the moonbear also appears in this linocut print.

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Following the General Product Safety Regulation I want to inform you that
the product is:
flammable, please don't put it close to open flame, or anything with great heat.
not suitable for small children they can peel of the moon/suns and swallow them.
inedible, please don't eat it.
If you really want to throw it away: disposable residual waste.

The whole artwork is made by me, using the materials written above. If you have any questions according this artwork please contact me
via email or mail:

henriette.wiltschek[at]gmx[dot]at

Henriette Wiltschek
Chimanistraße 28
A-1190 Vienna