Gold Leafing with Nancy Thorn

Jennifer Winship Mark

 acrylic 

I took a great Gold Leafing Class from Nancy Thorn www.goldleafdesign.net and learned a minute smattering of the many  tricks of Water Guilding and Oil Guilding.

Here is the Italian Style frame I guilded and then created the traditional scraffito painting details using traditional egg tempera that I scratched into using a sharpened stick.

The acrylic painting is an experiment I did for our 

OPEN EYE ART

Can you find the eye in this piece?

More nautical charts....

Jennifer Winship Mark

collage, acrylic on nautical chart

40 x 50

Butterfly Boats off Peacock Spit

Jennifer Winship Mark

collage, acrylic on nautical chart

22x18

Finally finished my last charts....

                                                         Jennifer Winship Mark
                                                   acrylic and collage on nautical chart

                                                                  35 x 45

                                                   Cape Blanco Light House


                                                       I Worked for 6 days solid and
                                      finally finished my last 5 nautical chart acrylic paintings. I  first
              aged the nautical charts, stamped, collaged, gold leafed, wrote and spattered all to give
a "depth" to the art piece.  I have become an expert on all sorts of obscure historical facts about the NW coast.  I have even discovered my ancestors came to Oregon before Lewis and Clark.  The Winship Brothers arrived in Oregon on the Albatross and tried to set up a fur trading fort, but it was unfortunately flooded out.
I always knew I belonged in the NW !  Now it is time to frame these 28 original works.

Jennifer Winship Mark
collage and acrylic on nautical chart
40x48

Scene from around Canon Beach Oregon

                                                             Jennifer Winship Mark
                                                    collage and acrylic on nautical chart
                                                                             40x48



Turn of the century Gillnet Boats fishing the mouth of the Columbia River where it meets the Pacific Ocean.
These boats were known as the Butterfly Fleet.  They were efficient , graceful and  beautiful.

Jennifer Winship Mark
collage and acrylic on nautical chart
40x48
Sailors off Vancouver Island