above are copper elements that i placed between two piece of cotton wool soaked with the patina solution. The cotton wool starting sticking to the copper and gave it a thick blue coating with was not ideal...
I then tried painting the solution on the pieces which seems to work better. The solution still pools in the grooves of the metal so it gives it a natural 'unpainted' look.
Once i had patinated the copper elements for my necklace, i noticed how lovely the inside looked. I would like to make earrings with these elements but i will change the silver attachment. The piece of silver wire, at the moment, will be covered and bent into a jump ring which will allow it to be attached to the necklace. For the earrings i will solder a longer pieces of wire and mould it to some of the grooves in the copper so that it flows with the piece and doesn't look 'stuck' on.
above are some scribbles from my design book while I was thinking about how to attach the shepards hook/wire to the earrings.
The above picture shows my copper elements that were taken out of the solution and then put back in, to further the patination... they were left in for too long and started to disintegrate.
The above test pieces were successful :)
I love this time of year, all the pretty Jacaranda flowers falling along my road... 
I thought that folding the elements and opening them back up again might make them more interesting and detailed once they have been patinated. And in doing so they will follow on from the last necklace I made, and look like little clams!
above are copper elements that i placed between two piece of cotton wool soaked with the patina solution. The cotton wool starting sticking to the copper and gave it a thick blue coating with was not ideal...
I then tried painting the solution on the pieces which seems to work better. The solution still pools in the grooves of the metal so it gives it a natural 'unpainted' look.
Once i had patinated the copper elements for my necklace, i noticed how lovely the inside looked. I would like to make earrings with these elements but i will change the silver attachment. The piece of silver wire, at the moment, will be covered and bent into a jump ring which will allow it to be attached to the necklace. For the earrings i will solder a longer pieces of wire and mould it to some of the grooves in the copper so that it flows with the piece and doesn't look 'stuck' on.
The above picture shows my copper elements that were taken out of the solution and then put back in, to further the patination... they were left in for too long and started to disintegrate.
I have never patinated copper before, and thought it might be interesting to incorporate it into a neckpiece. I have lots of these little forged copper 'coral' pieces that i can play around with...
