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Klarenden — Rustic Patina I
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Published: 2008-11-07 15:05:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 152; Favourites: 2; Downloads: 6
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The beauty of copper comes with a strong relationship of, you love to hate it! It's easy to work with, it can be minipulated easily by color change and texture. It's pretty soft compared to other metals. It's one of those funny metals thats nice to play with, but you don't want to make anything luxurious out of it because eventually with it not being taken care of, it will turn green and tarnish away :/In this experiment, I used two different techniques. The roller mill to squish the pattern into the copper cuff. Then I dipped it in patina several times. I had too much patina in it and it went instantly to black, when polished it gives a blue tint to it. The second band, I hammered the texture into the band and then dipped it into the patina.
It's a color changing patina made from liver of sulfar. With less patina, its more gentle on the time of color change. With too much, it happens to fast and turns black. Copper holds different colors from silver and gold when its used in this particular patina.
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I was reading and looking at the posts by you and Thomas, and I wanted to throw my 2 cents worth out there. You can also use a microcrystaline wax, called Renaissance wax, sold by Rio. It is what museums use to preserve metal, wood and leather from oxygen. It is archival and will last. Use a little dab and work it into the surface, warming it with your fingers. And, then wipe it all off. You won't be able to get it off unless you anneal it or use a powerful cleaner like lacquer thinner. It does wear off, but it takes a while.
It works on silver as well
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We all need to be close, maybe we should create our own metal guild? Something thats not out there yet? lol You have the techniques of museums....mmmm the museums you have your stuff on for consignments, do they have rocks and minerals there to? lol
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Ummm, I don't use museums for consignment yet. Maybe when I am dead, lol. I use galleries. I WISH my work was in museums.
I got the idea of using that wax from reading about someone who worked with color pencils on copper, Deb Karash, [link] But, I also did some research on it before buying it. At the time I bought it, you could only order it from England through a knife making supplier. Knife makers use it as well. But, Rio carries it now. It is a little expensive, but it will last a long, long time, because you just use a tiny bit at a time.
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lol yeah I suppose museums like dead people a lil too much. They should appreciate live artists as well, I'd think..
Everything with rio is a lil more expensive but is a better quality, at least they make it feel worth the lil expenses.
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Working almost exclusively in copper, I entirely agree. If I wear a copper ring for the day, the skin under the ring turns bright green. My sort of body chemistry actually dissolves the copper. Some jewellers plate the under-side of the copper with silver (if possible) to avoid this.
Being hung-up on the mirror finish, I have yet to try patinas. But in defence of copper, it is harder than silver or gold and if one cleans it regularly (with Brasso etc.), as you would sterling, it shines like no other metal. I don't know how this sort of polishing would affect a patina.
Lastly, it's a great learning metal. Instead of makining 25 second-rate silver rings, you can practice with various gauges of electrical wire for almost no cost & they look great. Furthermore, the seams must be perfect or the silver solder will show.
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I'm wearing one of the cuffs today to test my allergies. I know in dust, it gets into my skin and I get a red rash and I start getting itchy, so far nothing, I'm just debating how comfy it is, I think I made it an inch too short for me.
There are so many different patinas out there, some are just a single colored one while others are multi changing depending how long you leave it in, which I think is cool, gives more of a personal preference to the specific item.
When I first took fabrication class over a year ago (i can't believe its been that long) but that was our main first piece, was to practice with copper, its cheap, and easy to learn tricks with that can be later applied to other materials.
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