It’s long been a given that colour is not my thing.
confirmation after a few hours of work…
I show you the long version.
The gilding
The first letter
The second one
the different steps of the filigree
It’s ugly (the first one who tells me that no, I banish him forever in the limbo of the internet)
So I’m gonna do it again. How ? I don’t know yet.
What’s for sure is that this afternoon, I’m gonna go gardening, it’ll give me a rest.
Once cleaned, here are the letters from my alphabet (technological miracle, I inverted the pic so you can see them on the right side).
As you can see, I made a mistake on some of them, the ones that looks inverted after being inverted :-/
Moreover, my printing tries are just awful, so awful that I won’t show even a bit of them.
I tihnk I’ll have to restart from the beginning, differently, with more care, briefly : to be followed…
To make you wait, here is a pic of the residues of the cleaning which is, probably, the best thing I got out of it.
I already told you about the beginning of my first try in engraving a plate of copper. Here are the next steps with, at first, the plate after a few weeks in contact with vinegar.
