'NEAR ATHENS' : an owl

'NEAR ATHENS' (Sold)

is composed of three pieces of rag board.

The central, broad part is mixed media:

I used Derwent pencil over a raked acrylic surface.

There's some oil pastel in there, too.

The two vertical borders

are the same rag board wrapped 

with copper foil on which I had drawn

freehand designs of stars and leaves.

To protect the copper from oxidation,

the surface is covered with 23 carat gold

or a mixture of acrylic, india ink

and flow medium.

It does that: flows down into the embossed designs.

I rubbed it down a bit to bring out 

the designs.

One night at my gallery,

I cut some stencils of 

abstracted letter forms.

Used it here under some of the 

frothed acrylic glazes.

That's more gold on copper on the right.

Artwork dimensions: 12 inches square.