12x12x1/4” copper plate, hand engraved using a rotary tool and a needle burr
15 Likes
This is really cool! I love the contrast of the copper… but then, I have a soft spot for copper, anyway…. 
2 Likes
This looks so cool! I’m getting phoenix vibes, so I’m curious what your inspiration was?
2 Likes
Ohh this is neat! It looks both robotic and organic in nature.
2 Likes
glad you guys like it! It actually started with a doodle of a bird i did like 20 years ago
then i started messing around with it years later and for the longest time couldn’t figure out what to do with it
kind of is a phoenix really. Though its titled “wraith” on the back 
4 Likes
Early progress image. It took me a while to figure out how to heat treat the copper to appear black. It looks really cool on this photo but completely lacked contrast without specific hard lighting
6 Likes
I love it! What a neat medium and a great design. Thank you for sharing. I haven’t really seen anything like this before.
3 Likes
Wow! This is really cool!
I was going to say exactly this. Super unique and awesome.
3 Likes
Welcome to Lettuce Craft, @Miles !
I love your engraving!
I’ve never seen this technique before either.
Looking forward to seeing more of your work.
2 Likes
Very cool. In your first pic it almost looks like leather. Awesome design.
1 Like
The background does look leathery to me as well. I actually patinated (by heating to 500F in oven) and stripped this piece back a few dozen times trying to get it to look right. The initial idea was to heat treat copper to dark gray, then apply archival wax, sand back the relief pattern and oxidize that blue/green. That didn’t work at all - firstly trying to get uniform verdigris turned out to be a very technical task that I had no idea how to get right and secondly - every time I scoffed the dark background while trying to expose copper on the relief pattern - I had to deepen the engraving depth and try the whole process again. So yeah I really wanted the pattern to ideally be electric blue but in practice, decided to go for metallic copper look
1 Like
My husband has been a metal worker for years so I actually understood your explanation
The fact this is hand done is amazing! Share more of your work if/when you make it.