and then there were three...

continuing to add to the samples of patination recipes I'm teaching in my Color on Metal course this summer. The newest addition (the middle cube) is just the good 'ol cupric nitrate and water misted onto a warmed copper surface and then waxed...yum!

Fruits of my labor...

So, I applied two patina recipes shown in the previous post to the welded copper forms I had demonstrated their construction of in another recent post...and the result...yummy!

I think this is how I am going to document demonstrated techniques for my class, by applying the recipes to these copper welded cube forms.

Patination samples...

Just few samples from teaching torch patinas today....what delicious colors! The plate on the left is a combination of the other two. The middle is the good ol cupric nitrate recipe and on the right is the ohaguro recipe from the Japanese Patinas book.