Peeling gold leaf paint #1 by goodoleboy
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Captured 2/8/14, early on an overcast morning, off a wall somewhere within the vast perimeter of the neighborhood.
I wonder how anyone has the money and wherewithal to paint a long brick wall with this ostentatious stuff. The weather conditions alone would doom it to an early decay.
Don't forget to ZOOM.
Ta-ta.
Comments (9)
durleybeachbum
Definitely not the real thing, but as you say, very ostentatious nonetheless!
goodoleboy
It sure looks like the real thing to me. Then again, maybe it's fool's gold.
claude19
curious painting wall... a very bad result !!! cool capture !
magnus073
Fine work on this very detailed capture, Harry.
MrsRatbag
What a fascinating texture it has taken on over time, though; all those tiny wrinkles and cracks...reminds me of a badly made-up face in a way. Superb capture of this extravagant peeling wall, Harry! Must have been very hard to get the lighting right for something this reflective!
JaneEden
I agree you have to know what you are doing as regards photography to get such a good result as this, Is it real or not Harry? Amazing capture, hugs Jane xx
thecytron
Xcellent detailed paint texture!
ia-du-lin
nice texture.
tennesseecowgirl
interesting capture Harry!!!
anahata.c
First, zoom brings out the whole picture: It's quite complex. Second, it's quite a sight, because you didn't just get the gold and its "waves"---the ripples of light that roll across the surface---but you got the cracks and canyons, including one big hole on the left. (The Grand Canyon of this piece.) As a texture shot, I'm amazed at how the cracks fall in 'rows'---they're so well behaved! I guess that's from the nature of the paint...As for what this is made of (you and Andrea), there are all those ersatz gold paints out there, for homes and such; and maybe they have some real gold in them, but they're mostly other metals treated to look like gold. (I worked with real gold paint as well as gold leaf, and it's very expensive and delicate. It's actually gold dust suspended in a painter's base.) Those old tempera paintings from the Middle Ages---ie, where pigment was mixed with egg yolk, "tempered" with egg yolk---they held gold leaf in place because hardened egg yolk gets more impenetrable with each year. (Think of egg yolks on a plate, if you don't clean it right away: It becomes a plastic 'sheet'.) But wall paint, of course, has nothing like egg yolk in it. In any case, this is another capture of things most of us never notice, and it's full of activity and seismic patterns. And it's big, garish and fun. And I love those waves of light---they're like ridges. With all the variety in your gallery, it's hard to believe so much of this is within walking distance of your home. Your "closeups" make it look like you've traveled 40 states to get all these shots...