What it takes to make a Liddawi Painting?

Many people ask me questions about how I create my paintings.

How long it takes to make a painting?  How do you get these colours? How do you put the gold on? and many others

So I decided to put a short video together to answer these questions and show you the process behind the artworks.

Three Meticulous stages:

STAGE ONE: PREPARING THE BOARDS

Using traditional gesso recipe (true gesso)

STAGE TWO: MAKING THE PAINT

Using egg tempera mixed with earth & mineral pigments STAGE THREE: WATER GILDING Applying genuine gold leaf using Renaissance techniques

STAGE THREE: WATER GILDING

Applying genuine gold leaf using Renaissance techniques