Tray #5 Leather Grain

[brad]

With several WIP jewelry pieces in limbo, I decided to bang out another copper tray.  An attempt to give the inside of the tray a leather-ish grain texture, and the edges a straight tree-bark-ish texture, with cross graining on the corners. LoS patina aging.  I need to keep telling myself, anneal, anneal, and anneal some more!  And my stamping still needs to progress.  Brad

[caeterle]

The "leather" texture is really beautiful!

[brad]

Thank you. These little trays go from cutout to patina and done fairly quick. The trouble is. They keep disappearing as gifts. Brad

[caeterle]

Well, if I were closer, another one might disappear, lol!

[Irith-Rita]

It looks good, but doesn't look like copper...

[DawninCal]

Love that texture and I if I lived closer another one might disappear as well!

Yes, annealing is your friend, that is for sure.



Dawn

[brad]

Mar 24, 2024 16:16:40 GMT -6 Irith-Rita said:

It looks good, but doesn't look like copper...

Thank you, for sharing.  Some of that is not having a good light box.  I should have run pic through a filter to bring more of the copper into view.  After I patina, I steel wool back to bring out some copper highlights.  Sometimes more, sometimes less.  It’s tricky and a bit random as to my results.  I have not put a finish on it, so on occasion I let the piece rest, I ponder a while, then see where my mood takes me.  Leave it be, or bring more copper forward. Admittedly, with a house full of arts and crafts period copper pieces, I do tend to give it that look of age and that period of invoking age and darkening. Your comment has inspired me to make a few with no patina…maybe a flame patina or peanut oil patina?  Brad

[brad]

Rather than the above ramble, here is another pic revealing more copper.  Brad

[michelle]

I’m with the others, it’s a good thing we are all so far away these little trays might disappear even faster. 😄 Love the textures, Brad!