Printing onto gold leaf

I have started to experiment with printing straight onto the gold leaf instead of using decals. I use an ink jet medium first. The first one I printed worked really well but it took two weeks to dry and it is still very delicate so will not be any good for a boxed set of images. It will need to be framed and never touched. The second time I tried to print the printer (Epsom 2400) kept spitting out the paper. It too approximately 30 times of re-feeding the paper before it would print. I love the quality of the image it produces on the gold. It is much more embedded into the gold and little idiosyncrasies appear in the image as is dries which I really like. It reminds me more and more of a Daguerreotype

Nine Golden drawings

I have made nine drawings. I have since added a line border

Golden Decals

This is my collection of golden decals so far. I am quite happy with them