Another "a little of column a, a little of column b" here--not a lot of the stuff you've posted lately is my personal style, but I love seeing you be productive and make abstractly-neat things.
Oh, if you do more wire work, you might be interested in playing with Liver of Sulfur--you make jewelry with regular copper wire, then oxidize it with LOS and scrub with scotch brite to highlight. No worrying about the pliers scratching the antique finish while working with it! LOS is how I get the darker patinas on my copper metalwork too. Only downside is the part where it smells godawful so it needs to be used outside or in a very well-ventilated bathroom, and disposed of down the toilet. Anyway, I have seriously way too much of it (a can half the volume of a soda can full of it, and you mix a chip the size of a grain of rice with water when oxidizing something...) and I would be happy to give you some if you're interested.
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Date: Apr. 16th, 2010 04:37 pm (UTC)Oh, if you do more wire work, you might be interested in playing with Liver of Sulfur--you make jewelry with regular copper wire, then oxidize it with LOS and scrub with scotch brite to highlight. No worrying about the pliers scratching the antique finish while working with it! LOS is how I get the darker patinas on my copper metalwork too. Only downside is the part where it smells godawful so it needs to be used outside or in a very well-ventilated bathroom, and disposed of down the toilet. Anyway, I have seriously way too much of it (a can half the volume of a soda can full of it, and you mix a chip the size of a grain of rice with water when oxidizing something...) and I would be happy to give you some if you're interested.