Ed McDonnell
Member
I finally got some shop time this week and I've been working on a design for a Christmas pen. The picture show two color variations of the same design. One is bright multi-color and the other is more muted (almost like a lightly patinated bronze).
The blanks were created with the CCC technique I've explained before using my ornamental lathe and multiple casts. I used a fine detail brush (it only had two bristles, one from a virgin free range sable that was fed an organic diet of wild caught trout and the other from a rat) to apply to color to the carved areas. The multi-colors are fluid acrylics. The more muted pen is also multi-color, but much more subtle. After the fluid acrylics, I applied a bronzing wash and some interference "metallics" as an overcoat.
When I was done I decided I liked the muted color scheme better. But I showed the pens to everyone at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and the multi-color pen was everyone's favorite. Nobody preferred the muted one. Not even one person. Oh well.
All comments welcome.
Ed
The blanks were created with the CCC technique I've explained before using my ornamental lathe and multiple casts. I used a fine detail brush (it only had two bristles, one from a virgin free range sable that was fed an organic diet of wild caught trout and the other from a rat) to apply to color to the carved areas. The multi-colors are fluid acrylics. The more muted pen is also multi-color, but much more subtle. After the fluid acrylics, I applied a bronzing wash and some interference "metallics" as an overcoat.
When I was done I decided I liked the muted color scheme better. But I showed the pens to everyone at Thanksgiving dinner yesterday and the multi-color pen was everyone's favorite. Nobody preferred the muted one. Not even one person. Oh well.
All comments welcome.
Ed