MATERIALS
Required
1. Silver wire: Fine or Sterling, filed or sanded to a smooth point.
2. Smooth, but not slick paper, (hot press watercolor papers or Bristol)
3. (A) Rabbit-skin glue dry grains and
Dry ground pigment
OR
3. (B) Commercially prepared silverpoint ground.
Additional Materials:
Alternative Wires: gold, copper, lead
Lead-tin Stylus
Parchment
Wood panel
Colored pigments
TOOLS
Device to hold wire (2mm drafting type lead holder will work with a 12 gauge wire)
Smooth, flat 1” - 1 ½” brush
Finishing sand papers
Burnisher (as used by gilders)
Cups for liquids
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