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Cute, right? Salvaged copper granules, coloured with magic, just for you.

#copper #heat #patina #colours #colors #rainbow

Salvaged tubing turned into dread beads and a hair ring. The brass beads were sanded and smoothed, while the copper beads were flared by hammering and then polished. The copper hair ring was smoothed on the inside, left textured on the outside, and then heat coloured.

#salvage #copper #brass #dread beads #dreads #hair rings #hairstyle #heat #patina

I was gifted a copper panel a few months back, and told to make something with it. I soon realized: this is a copper plated steel panel. I can't hammer this! Luckily I had Pre-Shrunk on my mind, and so saw this as an opportunity to play. I used salt, water, vinegar, and ammonia to take this panel from a piece of garbage to an ominous nighttime mountain scene. (I was floored when I came back to it and saw how well the mountain came out in the second image, and floored again when I saw an iguana's chin and left eye. Do you see it too?)

#copper #steel #salt #vinegar #ammonia #patina #black #blue #white #mountains #moon #clouds #stars

My submissions for Argyle Fine Art's 2016 Pre-Shrunk: Stolen Spellbook. Copper Shoreline. Salvage at Dawn. Salvage at Dusk. All made from salvaged copper sheets.

#salvaged #copper #patina #art #tbt

Finished! Submission for the 2015 NSCAD Alumni Exhibition.

#raised #copper #nscad #heat #patina #lamp #design #orange #pink #led #tbt

The five light shades for my NSCAD Alumni Show submission from various stages of raising to ready-for-wiring. After I finished raising them, holes were added to each and they were heat coloured. I was planning on assorted tones like apricot, gold, and plum. Instead, I pulled off an even gradient from orange to pale pink. I’m still floored with the result!

#raised #copper #in progress #nscad #heat #patina #orange #pink #tbt

My plan for the NSCAD Alumni Exhibition. Raised copper vessels as light shades for a drupe fruit inspired lamp.

#raised #copper #nscad #lamp #design #sketch #heat #patina #orange #apricot #purple #plum #tbt

Funnel set constructed from brass sheets.

Copper flashing (when copper deposits onto the surface of other metal when in a cleaning solution) is usually a big problem. For this set, I used strategic copper flashing to my advantage as a design feature.

#brass #copper #copper flash #funnel #design

Another copper-free NSCAD project: ten identical paper cubes for Constructed Forms. Believe it or not, the first image only has one cube in it.

Years later and I still love these things.

#nscad #constructed forms #white #paper #cube #cubes #mirror

Double-ended counter plane spoon, formed by hammering from a round copper rod, 1 tsp and 1/4 tsp.

#copper #hammer #planish #spoon #design #one teaspoon #tsp #teaspoon

The cymbal is brass, so technically has copper in it... A stretch, I know.

I made this contraption for a design class at NSCAD a few years ago. We were required to make a bicycle themed project, and a Rube Goldberg machine was one of five options.

#nscad #design #contraption #rube goldberg #machine #rube goldberg machine

More samples! These were to test ammonia fume patina on copper for our final hollowware project. More on that later.

(The etched copper was lifted from the scrap bin at NSCAD, so thank you to whoever didn’t like it!)

#copper #black #blue #patina #ammonia

Still one of my favourites, a squared taper from a round copper rod. Yep - I hammered a round rod into a copper spike. Just because I could.

#shiny #copper #spike #hammer #planish #polish

Patina samples while taking hollowware at NSCAD. The orange and magenta are so easy to get, but that blue? I wish I’d have taken notes that day.

#copper #brass #heat #patina #orange #magenta #blue #nscad

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