The transformation from classical Xuan paper to modern Western elegant gold foil painting
Release time:
2024-05-10
Source:
JINSHNEG GOLD LEAF COMPANY
At present, there are generally three kinds of painting methods of hand-painted gold foil: one is mineral pigment drawing, the other is paint, and the third is propylene pigment.
There are many substrates used to paste gold, such as Xuan paper, silk, linen and wood boards, and many of them are directly pasted on the treated walls in modern architectural decoration. For example, the gold foil painting of the Villa below is hand-painted after gold is pasted on the wall.

This hotel gold foil painting "Lotus" is to put gold on the board and then draw.

In the decoration of hotels and villas, these two kinds of substrates are the most. Acrylic pigment is generally used for drawing pigments. Gold foil paintings drawn by mineral pigments belonging to practical commercial paintings are generally pure artistic paintings, and the substrates are mostly Xuan paper, silk and linen......


The gold foil craft painting takes gold foil, silver foil and copper foil as the base material, and the whole plate without deformation and cracking as the base plate. Professional Arts and Crafts painters use shaping, carving and lacquer art to make color coloring effect according to the design sample.

Or full of gold, or interspersed with gold to refresh the audience, so that the audience can reach the noble, elegant, luxurious, magnificent after watching, and produce strong visual appeal. It has the functions of display, collection and display, and can support the scene atmosphere for the decoration and configuration of all places.

The modern gold foil painting is more like brushing a layer with paint, adding water with alcohol, which is mainly based on water, then sticking the gold foil with a brush, then slowly brushing out the elements of the oil painting, and then brushing away other fragmentary surplus parts.

Painting is a traditional painting, with rich production techniques and colorful picture effects, which will not be repeated here. Hand-painted gold foil painting has a long history.
With the development of the times, new materials and new methods emerge one after another. As long as you continue to explore, there will be more and more beautiful appearances in the world.
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