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Home Studio Patination
This virtual workshop shows students how to patinate copper and brass safely at their own home or private studio.
Over the course of two sessions, Charles will give demonstrations and share techniques and tips for easy patination methods using household chemicals to produce a wide range of blues, greens, browns, blacks, greys and reddish tones on copper and brass. Students will also get an overview on ways of controlling pattern and surfaces, as well as fuming, immersion, pastes, masking, porous media, sealing surfaces and the use of heat.
This virtual class is designed so that students will have a chance to experiment in between class sessions and share their results for feedback and further guidance to learn from each other as well as their own work.
Meet the instructor
Charles Lewton-Brain studied and worked in Europe and North America. He lectures and publishes internationally on his research into rapid manipulation of metal and it's surface for artistic and manufacturing purposes. He invented Fold-Forming, an internationally reconized new approach to working sheet metals. Head of the Jewellery/Metals Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design, he writes, exhibits and works in his studio. He is President of the Canadian Crafts Federation. He thinks of himself as an artist who works primarily in the context of body ornament. He is a founding partner in the world's largest free educational web site for jewelers, ganoksin.com and has over 700 pages of his writing there.
Materials & Tools
The instructor has put together a list of materials and tools that will be covered in this virtual workshop, which can be found by clicking here. Student participation during or in-between class sessions is welcomed but not required - observers are welcome.