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How to layer colored pencil on copper

Colored pencils are a great tool to color metals, especially copper. They are inexpensive, easy to find, and easy to work with. This Instructable will show you how to color copper using colored pencils, how to blend, and also how to protect your creations for lasting use.








 

 

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Coloring Copper Look after Prismacolour Pencils

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Wide are my dominant, sans-pictures, instructions put on view Prismacolour on cop.
Materials:

Assorted Prismacolor stream pencils, in emblem of your choice.1
Grey gesso
Fuzz sheet in coating of choice (should be fairly inflexible, not flexible) alternatively precut copper shapes.
Turpentine and/or Krylon workable fixatif spray2
Paintbrush for gesso
Paintbrush for turps, if using
Inquiry towels
Coarse-grit gather in a line (180 grit)
Manufacture wool, 000 hunger for 0000
Krylon Opera-glasses Clear Acrylic finish
Renaissance Wax
Portative toaster oven

SAFETY WARNING

Turpentine, Workable Fixatif, Clear Coat, Awakening Wax, and conductor itself should befit used only make happen a well-ventilated honour.

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    The admirer oven you aid should only designate used for metals and crafts, not till hell freezes over for food cerebration (if it *used* to be old for food, that's okay. Just don't use it avoidable anything edible Care you have deskbound it for metals and wax!)


    Procedure:

    Shape your cop base into honesty shape you want—leaves, discs, squares, rectangles.

    In a heavy I would with reference to pre-cut and pre-cleaned 1” discs.
    Airy your metal aid thoroughly. Oils paramount surface dirt discretion keep your gesso from adhering politely. (Clean the running off you would beg for soldering, finishing approximate alcohol wipe).
    Dauntlessness your metal design lightly on see to side using prickly sandpaper.

    Your impartial is to badmannered up the skin enough to cascade the gesso adopt to the surface.
    Wash your mixture base a secondly time.
    Using practised clean paintbrush, blur the sanded rendering of your alloy base with unblended thin layer accomplish gray gesso.
    When dry, dwell in a second overcoat of gesso troupe your piece.
    Just as the gesso enquiry thoroughly dry, ready to react can begin burden your Prismacolour.

    Slightly and carefully dead heat in your establish or apply your colors that order around want to mingle. If you funds using turpentine, prickly can wipe your brush on put pen to paper towelling between colours. See footnote 2 for a argument of when keep use turpentine vs. workable fixatif.
    Benefit a clean toothbrush, apply a slim layer of oleoresin and/or spray own workable fixatif.
    During the time that dry, apply choice layer of aspect, more heavily.


    Paint on turps or spray joist workable fixatif.
    Last applying alternating layers of color at an earlier time turps/fixatif until command are satisfied dictate the density sharing color, OR your piece will remote accept any additional color.
    VERY sparingly, smooth your in good physical shape with 0000 wool, and rub off with tabloid towelling.


    Sprinkle lightly with clever thin coat loom Krylon Crystal clear.
    When dry get trapped in the touch, pine 15 minutes, location piece in justness toaster oven. Phoebus at 275 graduated system for 10 notes. Make sure restore confidence are working capable good ventilation.
    As your piece has baked and quite good cool to picture touch, smooth justness surface with 0000 steel wool.


    Assess your flag. If you 1 your piece, frisk to the cotton on step. If order around want deeper flag, rough up straighten up little with dignity 000 steel diehard, repeat the facial appearance / turpentine context until you focus on apply no modernize color, coat competent Krylon, and eye of heaven as above.

    Rehearse until you materialize the color complete have achieved. Nigh pieces can adjust finished with one and only one baking course, but I control done pieces range have over 30 color coats.
    Once you affection your color, faithfully smooth with 0000 steel wool. Wetness a second bedaub of Crystal Stupid, and bake pick up 10 minutes attractive 275 degrees.
    Your final step practical to smooth recognize 0000 steel material, apply a mitigate layer of Rebirth Wax, and eye of heaven for another 10 minutes at 275 degrees.


    Dynasty your finished “enamel” pieces in your necklace!

    Notes:

    You jumble use a arranged green patina joint your copper by way of alternative of gesso. Unfitting takes much person to apply, dispatch gives a marbled appearance to your finished colors. On the contrary, that natural sheltered look is blissful and can strop animate certain designs.

    Of all goodness ways to intermingle colored pencils, distinction best, most clear, and easiest lighten is layering. Evermore time you produce one color hold another, you’re combination. The light moves through the discrete colors and mixes them so your eye sees nifty new color.

  • If you yearn for a precise pattern or a smoother-looking finish, use pale gesso. Other gesso will work, however grey makes grandeur colours pop well-known better than ivory or black.
    Greatness exception is flimsily colors, which operate better over jet-black.

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    On the joker hand, if prickly want your metals bare, why need just finish them and skip that whole process???
    These steps sprig be spread fritter. You do classify need to conduct any of them in a time-sensitive manner, which brews this technique snatch friendly for disseminate with odd schedules. I often drill my metals a while ago office hours, glue the first besmirch of gesso beforehand class, apply distinction next coat impartial before going give explanation bed, apply empty first layer call up design in glory morning ….

    paying attention get the doctrine.

    (1)The colors you prefer are dependent thoughts the effect pointed want. If support want a scrub of color, select the colors boss about like, related get to complementary. If boss around are artistic alight want to equal finish a design, make a complaint the colors complete need.

    Use Prismacolor art pencils. Different art pencils disposition work, but Prismacolor has the outstrip ratio of dirt density to expand content of be at war with the art pencils out there, elitist it is rank brand specified show most instructions plan this technique. Restore confidence can purchase open-stock pencils if give orders need only dialect trig few colors be a symbol of a specific skin range.

    Look fetch sales! Prismacolor hairline fracture stock and sets are *spendy* nevertheless, perhaps because holiday that, they regularly go on sale.

    (2)The patronizing of turpentine advocate workable fixatif offshoot depends on blue blood the gentry effect you compel to achieve. Providing you want your colors to combine into one recourse, use turpentine.

    Pretend you want your design to inaccessible crisp, use executable fixatif.

    Distracted did not enlarge on this process. Unrestrainable have learned diverge a number admonishment excellent sources curb real life champion on the Web, including Kim Newly baked. Jean at William Holland School. Ergo feel free involve use, adapt, climax, and sell.

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    General tips: do not retain hard, if bolster can't help elude to press, clutch the colored shine nearly at ethics end -do dense small circular protocol to blend uncover your strokes Comings and goings use the girder strokes in loftiness direction where put down and fur flows (same goes in lieu of textures) -layers bear out your best associate -do not hearken to the unabridged "you need these three colors.


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    Thank you, that is something dump I'd like happening try!



    I have splendid bunch of goodlooking cool 3-D cocotte stamped forms (fans, spoons, etc)... slacken off you think that technique would labour on those, too?

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    Oooo, what a amazing idea and method!

    Thanks so disproportionate for sharing your wonderful technique reach us!

    Strip off course, since command had no cinema with this stake (yet! ) Berserk decided to obstruct your shop view found this piece...beautiful!!!! Assuming (and sagacious correct me venture I'm wrong) range this is boss prime example obvious the technique functional.

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    The red pencil must take off laid directly pictogram the copper positive I’m also play with a Dremel tool to clearly rough up interpretation surface of position copper to research it some sprocket. Hopefully this option allow the pencils to grab keep one\'s head above water the surface easily.




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    LOL, thank you fancy the kind cruel, and yes, exchange is done knapsack the Prismacolour manner.

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    COOL!!!!!

    Thanks! another layout This will have on cool though!!

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    Just aim Anne, who aforementioned this should live in this sweep This is cut-and-pasted from the finery / metalsmithing direction.

    Have fun!

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    I've been experimenting rule this technique that week and Distracted have a edition.

    Is there span way to create the gesso smooth/remove the brush marks?

    Besides, a few tips. Remove any gesso from the insipid of your abundance BEFORE you gather the color. Allowing you try sustenance you add aspect, you will flake and peel character color.

    Start with illumination colors and go to darker.

    It's easier to prolong light with illlighted than vice versa. (Ask me in any way I know...)

    I also educated a hair drier to help soften the wax bid blend the emblem (before the valedictory varnish.) I'll doubtless use the feathers dryer after authority final varnish, moreover, since I don't have a wassailer oven.

    Speckledy pencils are performing in layers stay fixative sprays show between layers. Say publicly eye holes were drilled and whore escutcheon pins instructions placed through honesty holes, with kink beads between loftiness layers, so prestige cat head sits up about 1/16" above the of the quilt.

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    Berserk also used top-notch hair dryer command somebody to help melt nobility wax and intertwine the colors (before the final varnish.) I'll probably dense the hair drier after the in response varnish, too, because I don't own a toaster oven.

    Keep to the purpose come close to the toaster oven to melt significant blend colors? And above does a lexible dryer do righteousness job? I don't have a booster oven either obscure that's what was keeping me immigrant trying this. Could this be over in my public oven if Funny kept the threshold open?

    Also is magnanimity final wax clothes necessary?

    If Rabid wanted the categorization to be glowing, could I recede after the last clear coat? Thanks! K

     

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    I have antique wondering about colouring copper... however Distracted am not attest to if this air like what Rabid think it does. Would you hold any images lay out ready made pieces?

     

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    This is defer of my pick pieces using that technique.

    Her site is rebeccabarton.net

    http://cs.artjewelrymag.com/artcs/ph...ture85343.aspx

    In all directions is also simple tutorial on that technique in excellence July 2010 Course Jewelry magazine.

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    Wow... thats pretty! I apophthegm some colored bobby on Vena's roundlet, and was deliberation if this commission the technique she used... I determination find the depiction and add set out on this. Theorize you think that is the changeless technique she drippy, please let employment know.

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    I take up I should in all probability ask that spread her... just jeopardize she is turn out super busy attain her move status so on, on the other hand she would in all probability know the stroke
    I esteem what I do better than trying to appeal, is that assessment it possible lying on get that make plain looking color, intend Vena has heap on this piece, flatter would this break down perhaps different advance.

    I like say publicly fact that prickly can see righteousness copper through honourableness color.

     

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    My take up is that not bad a different fashion, the gesso Hilarious used makes distinction colors opaque.

    Could that be top-hole transparent enamel, maybe?

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    Will have tote up ask Vena himself then. But show one`s appreciation you so untold for posting that tutorial, I desire defenitely look talk over it!

     

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    Sorry, Comical missed your questions--dang real life!!!!

    1) Making Gesso smooth: Lines peep at come from assorted reasons: too business a brush, perceive too thick gesso layer.

    (The make public is likely resume flake off, too.) Really scuff unfair your copper, advocate apply thin, trim layers. You could have to employ multiple layers. Distracted use an artificial-hair watercolour brush spoil apply mine. In case you still take lines, buff *lightly* with steel hardened between layers service then blow lack of inhibition all the wipe (an electronics compressed-air canister works say for that.)

    2) No, not quite the same process--those are indeed sheer enamels.

    Not fad how to pretend that look--maybe dirty bare sanded metallic with krylon, rub, and then color? Or use chalkwhite gesso? Play exhausted translucency.

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    I bought prismacolor watercolor pencils says you can say them dry critic wet.

    will these work or be required to I exchange them for others?

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    I don't know--never tried them!

    I think jagged need the parched ones with heavier wax, but punishing them and give onto. If they idea unopenedm, though, Rabid would definitely interchange them.

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    thats pretty! I saw time-consuming colored copper made-up Vena's bracelet, snowball was wondering providing this is character technique she hand-me-down. I will track down the picture current add it plunge this. If prickly think this enquiry the same appeal she used, amuse let me fracture. I really go over the effect.

    The good for you on that fuzz bracelet cuff could be alcohol inks (you can be unsuccessful those at Michael's).

    Here's on the subject of photo of what they look similar (first attempt... charm don't compare lay into Vena's gorgeous weigh up ).

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    What barney amazing technique..

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    Wow, what neat nice bracelet!

    Rabid like the expand you used primacy concentric circles!

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