Colour and Patination

Over the last few weeks we have been mixing up various chemical recipies to produce some good and some not so good results:

Dom (CAA 3) has been working towards her final show and Nick CAA 2) has made some large fabricated pieces that have turned out really well.

As time goes on teh Small Metals workshop will collate a batch of tried and tested recipies to be used to colour and add patina to various metals

 Gentle heating of a solution under extraction

 Wire brushing the surface before re-coating

 Weighing out the different chemicals

 Some of Dom's samples

 Electric blue!

 Chemicals

Mixing a solution with rice to give a different patina

One of Nik's large pieces being laid up in sawdust

 Dom's final pieces ready to colour

 Nik's very impressive finished results