![]() THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT! Before you use any chemicals or mix any patina, read the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for it, usually included or available online. I find it to be untarnished and always just as I left it.ĥ. If you prepare the metal but must leave it for several hours or overnight, I like to leave mine submerged in a clean bowl of distilled water. Also, it’s OK to use a hair dryer or heat gun to lightly dry the hard-to-get-to spots on cast pieces.Ĥ. If the piece is awkward to handle, wear nitril gloves when handling the piece. Handle the metal only by the edges, and you may blot it dry with a paper towel. You may also use a good brass brush and pumice, and finish off with the Dawn and brass brush.ģ. Water must sheet off the metal before you can apply patina successfully if it doesn’t, keep scrubbing until it does. Scrub the metal for several minutes and rinse with cool water. You can use wet or dry sandpaper, such as 30-micron 3M Finishing Film, but I like to use a fine green kitchen scrubby or a 3M sanding sponge and Dawn detergent. This means that all finger oils, oxidation, tape, price stickers, dirt, etc. The surface of the metal must be squeaky clean. Oh, how I once struggled to get a consistent green patina on a highly polished copper collar! I never got anything close to what I imagined in my mind. Patina won’t hold well on a highly polished surface, so it’s best to sand or texture metal before applying patina. Patinas work best if there is some “tooth” to the metal. Here are six things I didn’t know about creating patinas on metal that I now share with you:ġ. I remember when I first started playing with patinas. But remember, you can have more consistent results if you start off right. The results, when you experiment with a patina, are often surprising and delightful. now im thinking about enamels!.✓ Let the Interweave Knits Winter 2024 issue transport you to a winter wonderland of cozy knits! This remarkable edition features 14 extraordinary projects to immerse yourself in the uniqueness of specially crafted yarns.ĭo you sometimes get tired of shiny sterling silver and the liver of sulfur (LOS) patina variations? Does the color of copper really excite you, but unfortunately you feel, like me, that copper just doesn’t get the respect it deserves? I love copper and the way it responds to patina and texturing. on the other hand my plain ol' acrylics over oxidized metal have worked fine too. you sure do a lot of torching! I think my fave is the torched brass. phew.Īnd all this stuff is the tits! although you can add water to novacan and jax cuz they're both water-based. ![]() once you publish it, get the url and make your 'button" which will be a picture you designed, or can just be text of course, link to that url. click scheduled and write some date in the past. there'll be two options- automatic or scheduled. you do that by clicking 'post options' under the place where you write the body of your post. that way, it'll be in your archives without ever having appeared as a post. now, if you want all this stuff but without the intro stuff, you need to write it all out as if it were a post- but then back date it. Ok, if what you want is a button then go to add gadget and pick 'picture'. ![]() This is what I've listed in my etsy shop since my last post. C'mon, do a good deed- help out the tech challenged. ![]() I know how to get html code for photos, is it the same for text? PLEASE ANYONE? How about those of you who know blogger coming and going. Non-lung-eating-patina-recipes as promised! Still hoping that one of you may have the know how to explain how to put the recipes on the sidebar with a fancy little button that will open up the page whenever you want to acess them without sorting through an entire old post. Just a few pictures for you to wade through before we get to the reason you're here. Not to mention you can see swimming elephants when you pay her a visit! Great stuff! The uber-talented Tracy of pipnmolly now has a blog! Tracy's artwork is incredible and now we all can enjoy getting to know the amazing lady behind the treasures. Hope that everyone is having a wonderful week.įirst things first.
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