UFO: Lutradour and lace challenge part 1

This is what I am working on currently. I am very short on time, so will elaborate later. For now, you can just look. For others in the challenge: I am not stitching things down, but using gesso in the first layer. I want to see how that works.

Work space:Layer one:

Layer two. It is a more golden color in reality.

Layer one of a different piece. This is a long piece. the left side:

The right side.