Jewel-like Zelige Pattern - 09 Mar 2024

Not actual jewels

Yes, that would be madness. Actually just bright acrylics on gesso. I tried to actually learn some lessons from the previous one when painting this:

Pencil sketch of jewel zellige on gesso

This is the sketch, and shows that transferring the sketch from paper can result in blurry lines - which have to be fixed - as well as just missing parts.

Painting

I painted in various primary colours and varnished, which gives it a slightly jewel-like feel.

Painted version of the jewel zellige

It’s good, but I regret using the brown in the yellow shapes. After painting over with brigh yellow (with high gloss medium) it ended up better, however.

Final product

The final item can be found here