This time around I've tried to focus a lot more on my research, trying to be more rigorous and increase the quantity of things that I'm looking at, whilst varying the source from just using the internet. One of the things I've found quite useful is ordering samples from the companies that are aimed towards the same luxury market that I'm heading for - I've got a huge pile of wallpaper samples from companies like Zoffany, Harlequinn, Anthology and many more, all of which are just so beautiful and the quality of work that I'm hoping to produce throughout this project. I'm interested in how these companies use metallics in their products and the different types of metallics that can be found. You have the foils which add the most shine, there's metallic inks with a more subtle look and even glitter on the papers too. I was unsure about how I would achieve these looks, the only technique I'd done before was foiling but I knew that wouldn't give me the tarnished look that I wanted in areas of my work, but then I found out about metallic binders and I think this is really going to work for me. Mixing the gold or silver powder with the metallic binder makes for a very high shine, but straight from the palette look (something that I'm trying to avoid), however after speaking to the technicians I found that you can mix pigments into these to create your own metallic shades... Time to experiment!
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