Learning a new skill. Never finished.

Fore edge painting

Well it’s about as done as I’m going to get it. All I’m doing now is adding more paint if I want to fix my mistakes.

What I learned so far:

Don’t paint your first fore edge painting on thin pages.

You can’t easily fix mistakes so plot it out better.

I can’t copy my own works worth a darn. Lol

Use the dryest brush possible with water colors or it wrinkles the paper if too wet. And let it completely dry between each addition of paint.

It is fun to do!

I enjoyed painting again.

And I’ll try it again.

The hardest part is separating All the pages when dry, both after gilding the edges and after painting.

Don’t over paint. If you use too much paint it builds up and cakes off when pulling the pages apart.

This last one really hurt my painting. I used too much paint. I tried to go back and touch up the gilding and it adhered to the water colors and blurred the painting at the end.

After touch up

For a first try I am still pleased. Need to work on perspective more as well.