patination

Chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:01:10 -0500

Some of my thoughts when I created this piece were sort of jumbled around the notion of a past event that a few members in my family encountered all at the same time (a death in the family). It all affected us in different ways, yet most of us have different recollections of the event. Thinking that maybe something had slipped by me- I took a closer look, and came up with something interesting. While studying the past and the event I began playing with magnification. Pouring over old grainy fading pictures and trying to make out what I was looking at with a small loupe; scanning pictures into my computer, etc. I noticed that the magnifier distorts. Obviously it distorts, but keeps everything true within it's field of focus. But slightly tilted it starts to distort. At the edges of crisp clean perception there starts the questionable line/void of distorted uncertainess. It is sort of a bubble that draws your imagination in. Suddenly, I was spending more time looking at the odd distortions cast by the magnifier then what i was spending actually studying what I was trying to see. Memory is an odd device, and often it tricks us. We don't necessarily remember things the way they actually happened, but instead we remember events how we would have liked them to have turned out. We remember what we want to remember. Imagination filled the void just out of reach of clear perception, and in the same way imagination filled the void within my own past memories.

Chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:23:11 -0500

chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:20:23 -0500

chrysalis

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:51:44 -0500

Chrysalis by David Barnhill 2007

David Barnhill — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:47:59 -0500

Here is one of my boxes. My work at this time is dealing with searching and often finding distortions of what we are actually looking for. Imagination often fills in the gaps instead of fact.

New to blogging

Sandra Moses — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:05:36 -0600

I am new to blogging and very interested in learning more as I really don't know what I'm doing. This is my first attempt and I'm learning as I go. I have done this section a number of times as I look into another area and then when I go back everything I've entered has disappeared. Hopefully this time it will work correctly. I am looking for some helpful hints that will assist me with this (don't get technical). I am also fairly new in the metal art business, I design the art and run the business, my husband cuts and finishes our art. I am looking for a serious mentor to assist me in learning how to market, etc, a new business and hopefully miss some common pitfalls that I may not know about as yet.

patinating metals

gnomonbob1 — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 05:25:07 -0500

I would like to find a way of creating a verdigris effect on brass, copper or bronze.
I cuurently use tourmaline acid to colur my metals.