Dad: Hand gilding and second exposure test

It's can't be clearly seen here but the moon has been treated with silver gilding, the stems and thorns are gilded in gold and the leaves and hands outline have been painted by hand using the dried solution from the cyanotype process which gives a 'Prussian blue' paint. 

It needs to further expose overnight. 

My initial thoughts are that I'd like to introduce further error behind the roses so as to give the image more depth. This would be possible in a 3rd exposure using the wet cyanotype process just for the section.

I might also want to use either the red/purple jacquard uv reactive dyes for the two roses. Although I could use paint instead... I'm not too sure at the moment. 

Thank goodness I used robust watercolor paper!