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Hi, this is Christina Varga from the Varga Gallery in Woodstock, New York and on behalf
of Expert Village today I’m going to show you how to be a self-taught artist, not an
easy thing. One of the things that I like to use as a self-taught and unconventional
artist is metallics and I have noticed that as the quality of the material that you use
increases so does the value of this painting. Here next to me you see the phoenix, look
there, there is some gold. Here you see the phoenix right, this painting I generally have
it on sale for five thousand and in my gallery I sell it for thirty-five hundred because
that is what I can probably get for it. I do have somebody standing next to me that
is perhaps interested in it and it is, I don’t have any of the other leaf that I used, but
what I used to make this painting was sizing, sizing is stuff that is, that glues the gilding
to the canvas. You put sizing on it and then the gold sticks to it and then I recoated
it with sizing, it’s got a whole bunch of unconventional materials, this is handmade
Thai paper, with, from Thailand with gold marker in it. This is cadmium red oil paint,
which is a very expensive color, we have blue enamel paint in here and we have the composite
leaf as well as the gold, gold enamel and the whole thing. If you can see, I’ve dusted
it with gold dust from above so that from the top all the little ridges of paint got
a little bit of dusting on the way down and you can see, sometimes I would take it and
blow it in my hand, it’s highlights, all these gold things, these are things that I
would not have learned, had I gone to school. I would never be taught how to do this at
school, it’s got markers, it’s got pencils, it’s got chalk, it’s got all sorts of
stuff but don’t be afraid to use whatever you what because you can make art with whatever
you have available, it’s there just put it together, that’s all you need to do.