I'm trying to get into the habit of posting on my blog more regularly but life has a way of getting in the way and that's okay cause it's all good. All I have to do is schedule myself a bit better. Ha!!
I had a bit of time to play in my studio this weekend so I spent some of it playing with some more patina on copper penny earrings. The first one, Liver of Sulphur, is pretty common. I used the gel so all I had to do was stir it into some hot water (1 tsp of the Liver of Sulphur to 12 ounces of water). I heated the copper a bit with the torch first so when I immersed the earrings in the solution, the colour developed very quickly and got quite black. After rinsing and drying, I sanded the high points lightly for some contrast.
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| Copper earrings with Liver of Sulphur patina |
On this next pair I decided to try layering a couple of different techniques. First I did a heat patina using peanut oil and the MAPP gas torch. I lightly oiled the copper with peanut oil on a paper towel and then heated the earrings just until I got some colour variation - shades of brown and orange mostly. Then I cleaned off the oil partially and spritzed the earrings with water, sprinkled with some salt, and left under a glass cake topper overnight with a small dish of ammonia. This added some lovely turquoise blue colour to the mix. Perfect compliment to the turquoise nuggets I added to these earrings. If I had scrubbed more of the peanut oil off, I would have had more blue. Maybe next time. I love how they turned out anyway.
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| Copper earrings with peanut oil and MAPP gas patina topped with patina made with ammonia and salt |
Jewelry making is so much fun!
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