I Gold Leafed a Cicada!

I am so thrilled with how today's project went down that I am about to burst! I am literally shook with how wonderfully my most recent experiment went, and you know how psyched I get when exploring different art mediums... especially when they go well!

I have had the idea of metal leafing insects, animal bones, and dried plants for a hot minute now so when Kingboom offered this collab opportunity I was soooo ready to play!

Now I have done a fair amount of gold leafing on my oil paintings and within the resin pours so that was nothing new, but trying out different colors of leafing as well as using different specimen 'substrates' definitely was. I chose a handful of colors that I thought would go well in my nature inspired 3D paintings (Champagne Gold, Champagne Silver, Rose Gold, Emerald Green, Turquoise) and today I will share the results. Spoiler alert: they're awesome!

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3.14.2024

Gold Leafing Art Prints

Me oh my these art prints took some time! “They” weren’t kidding when they said to expect delays over the holidays - yikes!

Hopefully you saw my post on Instagram (or I emailed you) back on Dec 20th that the preorder prints finally arrived literally a few hours before I was leaving for my two week van life holiday travels, which of course gave me no time to unpack, gold leaf, repack, and ship all those prints.

So I apologize if you had to wait, the prints took over three times as long as usual to get to me.

However, I finally got everything gilded, signed, and shipped yesterday and today… yay! Check your email for tracking numbers and pretty please tag me on Instagram when they arrive! @caleighbirdart

1.5.2022

Applying Gold Leaf :: My First Time!

Aloha fellow artistas and gold-lovas! I am super psyched to bring you a tutorial featuring my first time using the most exciting accent of them all: gold leaf!!

I was a little wary of filming myself using a brand new (to me) art medium, but I figured any screw-ups might help someone else learn, so why not, right? You won't believe how surprised I was to have the gold leaf turn out PERFECTLY on the very first try! Hooray!!

So check out this fun tutorial and you can literally be gilding like a pro in no time at all!! Fan-freakin-tastic!!!!

Optional:

• Pencil
• Talcum Powder

Supplies:

• Mona Lisa Metal Leaf Kit
• Large stiff but soft brush
• Paint brush(es)
• Painting surface

You can snag some gold leaf here using my special Dick Blick affiliate link and anything in your checkout basket goes to helping support my YouTube channel - Yay!

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originally published April 25, 2018