Base Colours & Grounds

Gilding is best done over a sealed surface, this stops your size seeping in and your leaf flaking off!

Kölner makes a range of products designed for just this purpse. The Caselo paints are useful, particularly for modern framers, for creating a vivid base colour to go under gilding. Fond and Poliment are more traditional products intended for water gilding, the Kölner Fond is ready-mixed bole in a pot and the Poliment is a more traditional coloured clay that you can add to your own bole mixtures!

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