original ink drawing with a silver-plated moon

Quite a stormy night, a full moon and bats leaving their hideout, this seems the perfect beginning of a mysterious story...

Materials:

14,9 x 10 cm
* Fabriano Studio Watercolor Hot Press 15% cotton Paper, 300 g/m2
* Lefranc Bourgeois Nan-King India ink

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

The moon is plated with genuine silver leaf. 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 silver has been left to oxidise a bit, so it has this loveley effect with the brownish tones. I stopped the oxidation by coating it with shellac, so it stays this way.

not vegan friendly, I used hideglue and shellac.

PLEASE NOTE
* You will need an "object frame" (with a distance between background and glass), because moon is several mm thick. For example you can use this frame.

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

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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