We were meant to copy a religious icon and recreate a 14 century panel painting. I just found a painting of some girl instead, attempted to replicate her and put the gold halo around her head. The gold leaf and raised halo were requirements but I didn't necessarily want to do a replica of an actual religious icon.
So this is a painting on layers of gesso powder over wood. Hand mixed tempera paint using eggs, water and raw powdered pigment. 24k gold leaf.
So this is a painting on layers of gesso powder over wood. Hand mixed tempera paint using eggs, water and raw powdered pigment. 24k gold leaf.
"Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere. And I have the further right to demand a free and unrestricted exercise of that right, and it is your duty not only to accord it, but as a community, to see I am protected in it. I trust that I am fully understood, for I mean just that, and nothing else."
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871
— Victoria Woodhull, “And the truth shall make you free,” a speech on the principles of social freedom, 1871