All you need is ...

 

I have only been posting works related to my online courses recently. I have to admit that it takes a lot of time.

Nevertheless, with Valentine's Day approaching, I decided to do something a bit different.

Here is a Roman capital decorated with white vine on a support of patinated copper leaf, the whole being made with acrylic paint.

I take this opportunity to wish you (with a little advance), full of love in this new year.

And, if you doubt my ability to realize a patinated copper foil collage, you are right. It is my wife who made it... All I did was to scribble my Roman capital and its associated Vine over it.

All I need is love and a woman who does great things to help me ;-)

knitting

Winter is coming. I know spring has just begun but, winter is coming.
I consequently decided to get myself to knitting. As I just can't cope with needles and wool, I opted for steel and copper so as to make myslef a scarf for winter (cos it's coming !!).

I doubt it can keep me warm, but until then, it keeps me busy :-)

wonderfully incandescent

Another try with engraving, this time on copper. I used an excerpt from the Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse.

The copper plate was a bit too thin and the result doesn't meet therefore my expectations.
I nevertheless find interesting the different colors appeared on the plate, due to the use of tar instead of my regular varnish. And it perfectly match the text, I think.

To be reworked but promising...

Vine on copper : fail

I already told you about the beginning of my first try in engraving a plate of copper. Here are the next steps with, at first, the plate after a few weeks in contact with vinegar.

Everything was going well, I decided to remove the varnish and then washed the palte with water and soap to remove the last traces of white spirit. And suddenly, no oxyd any more :-(

No more blue, no more green, evrything disappeared in the cleaning :-((

We still can see the pattern but that's at all the result I counted on. Just have to do it again...

Copper vine

After the zinc, I'm trying to engrave another kind of metal, copper.
For this first try, I chose a white vine pattern.
Here is a picture of the plate once varnished, waiting for the vinegar to react.