My fave piece from this last week. 🤗 I learned from Maria Helena’s workshop to think in 3s. Make a piece where you can see if far away (the large gold letters), from a mid point range (the smaller letters), and upclose (the finer details like the lace and the shadow/highlight).
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The Khmer alphabet has 74 characters: 33 consonants, 23 vowels, and 12 independent and its own numbering characters. The vowels have different sounds based on the consonants it is used with so sometimes it feels like 24 vowels and accent marks give it a different sound as well. It is considered the language with the most alphabets.
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Handmade paper 14.74”x16” from Share Studios which I cropped down just a bit.
Gold leaf using miniatum.
Kuretake sumi gold with Dr. PH Martins white and mixed gray gouache.
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