a little oopsy

Remember that sky and water study with the silver leafing? I heavily topcoated it with a shiny finish and let it dry for days so that the topcoat could 'cure'. After several days I put in it my flip rack in a sleeve, and when an interested visitor inquired about it in the studio Saturday night, I found that it was STUCK in the sleeve and some of the leafing was threatening to separate from the piece.

Yes, this kind of stuff even happens to me.

I wrestled the piece out of the sleeve and that silver leafing was no longer threatening to separate.... a couple patches of it remained inside the sleeve, but other than some missing leafing, the piece was un-harmed. I fixed the silver leafing yesterday in the studio before moving on to work on that commissioned piece (I am now underpainting the leaves a light yellow to give them a glow around their edges as I paint them green) and now I only have to figure out if I can save the sleeve that the leafing is stuck in.

I sent an image to the interested visitor and made a mental note to create some more of those pieces..... I will just have to find a better storage option for them:):):)