This week is a combo of a lot of techniques all rolled into one.

I was playing with fold forming and wanted to do some scoring (thanks Stephanie for reminding me of that!) and so the copper is roll printed and scored and folded. I then had to figure out what to do with it - as I was playing with various stones, with the copper in a vertical orientation, my mother came over and began fiddling - which I highly encourage! I love to watch others get in on the creative process and unleash their own creative energies! So she oriented the copper horizontally and turned this particular stone on its side rather than symmetrical as I would have had it. The end result was rather fishy...so I decided to run with it. :) I added some copper wire and sterling wire and then a row of small sterling granules. Another small granule at the tip of the tale and he's done!

There is some mild heat patina on the copper - the photo doesn't bring it up too well though.




I fabricated a pin backing from sterling tubing and wire and a quick polish and here we have my week 10 'fish pin', a little bigger:


I'll add a side shot later tonight - he's kind of 3-D on the copper part. :)

C&C welcome here or by the network forum.
~Janice
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Labels: copper sterling, fold forming, heat patina, mixed metal, peanut wood, pin