Today I'm working on a copper wall piece for a show in a week and a half. The piece is a bunch of shapes cut from one sheet of 16 gage copper. They fit together with no space between like a puzzle, and form an oval shape with a hole in the middle, so it looks like a vortex or a hurricane. All of these pieces will be rivetted to another sheet of copper but raised from it to create a shadow. Right now I'm filing the corners of each piece round so they reflect the light, and I only have a few more pieces to file. I can't decide yet whether to just patina the copper pieces so they're darker or to paint the copper somehow. I like the look of oil painted copper, but it might just be a bad idea to cover up the metallic look.
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