Experiments were made using several different brands of powdered gold leaf, but I settled on the Schmincke. This pigment is super fine, rich in color, and mixes easily into a paint by combining the powder with just a little of whatever medium you are working with on your project. I used the Strasbourg medium that I have been using all along on this minerals/metals/dirt project. The gold paint was then floated into the wet paint applications on the pitcher and allowed to dry. This technique is called wet in wet, or the old masters called it into the soup.
The Schmincke Rich Pale Gold powder pigment #18 812 was used here for this application. You can see the gold outlines around the leaves and flowers on the pitcher. Schmincke makes many other colors in their Bronze line of powdered metals.
Here is the gold leaf in powder form on the left. On the right it is mixed with the Strasbourg medium. The more you mull it, the finer it will get. You can see the richness of the gold and just imagine the many uses for this pigment. I have even mixed it with acrylic mediums on other painting projects. Have you ever tried this? How did it work for you? Leave a comment and let the readers know how you used powdered gold leaf in your paintings.
