Traditional Water Gilding Class
Instructor: Jill London | Date: Thurs 3/27 - Sun 3/30
Class Status: Class Full - Waitlist Available
Lynne Rutter Studio is pleased to welcome master gilder Jill London for this class in traditional water gilding!
A four-day class designed for anyone who is interested in water gilding and wants to learn more to improve their skills. The object we will gild from start to finish will be a Florentine picture frame.
Students will learn to prepare rabbit skin glue, chalk gesso, bole, gilding liquor and toners. These materials will be applied as a demonstration and each student will work on his/her own frame. Genuine gold leaf will be used and we will learn how to gild out of a book of gold. We will discuss various techniques and open up discussions about other types of gilding options and how to incorporate gilding into your work.
Jill London is one of the most experienced professional gilders in the US and a thorough and generous teacher of this ancient craft.
Practice painting technique at full scale in a working mural studio
Designing compositions for rectangular or "tray" ceilings
Creating palettes for different colors and "moods" of skies - allowing for more expressive and painterly murals.
Matching colors of cloudscapes to work with the interior design of the room
Advanced cloud composition: designing for domes, round,or oblong ceilings
Designing clouds to use with figures or as part of more complicated ceiling murals
Marouflage techniques for adding figures or birds into a ceiling or for installing a canvas mural in general.
Participants will create their own unique full-scale cloudscape panels.
Class Fee: $1,550
Society of Guilders Members receive a $25 discount
Includes: one traditional wood picture frame, chopped and joined, 1 book of W&B gold leaf, cheese cloth, champagne chalk gesso, wet dry sand paper, cotton, mica powder, rabbit skin glue, Selhamin red clay, shellac, rottenstone, pumice powder and raw and burnt umber earth pigments. Materials will be packaged into containers for practice at home.
Tool fee: $92
Includes on 3" tip single, and one houndstooth agate burnisher, available from the instructor.
Tools needed: All students should bring a gilder’s tip, gilder’s mop, sable brush, gilder’s pad, gilder’s knife. A basic kit can be ordered from W&B for $125: info@wbgoldleaf.com or call 920-459-8206 to order.
Location: Lynne Rutter Studio | 2325 3rd St. #207, San Francisco, CA (map)
Schedule: 9:30AM - 5:30PM, with a lunch break
Reservations: This class is currently full. Click here to join the waitlist.
Feel free to email the studio with any questions.
Recent water gilding art by Jill London