Funny last Saturday... I felt terrible with a cold but I needed something to do so I worked in the studio. Played with some bronze. I had etched up all that copper and I wanted to see what the designs were going to look like. I also worked with some molds.
The good...the molds came out nicely. But molds usually do. I've been using the actual object that I molded to give the backside of the piece a mirror image design.
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| This came from a mold of an African gold weight. This is the front side. |
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| Back. I like that it's not perfect. And is has my fingerprints on it. |
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| Another gold weight mold |
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| The one on the right shows the back side. |
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| This came from a mold I made in a Holly Gage class. This is from an ancient coin. It's the head of Apollo. |
The bad....The copper I etched looks really great but in my rush to etch all the sheets, I didn't etch them as deep as I wanted. They etched about the depth of a tear-away...which is OK but I was going for just a little bit of a deeper etch.
The ugly....well..I love the shape, love the texture and love the faux rivets. But....the texture is too shallow and some of the faux rivets fell off. I am going to try to attach and refire them. If that doesn't work I will drill out the spots and add real rivets...maybe with some screws to make it different.
Well...back to the drawing board. I am going to etch new sheets so I can get a deeper texture.
1 comment:
They look very nice.
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