Introduction
 

Following instructions here, I have to introduce myself so hello, my name is William and I'm a scupltor in aluminium. I specialise in flowers, birds, animals, that sort of thing, and I am always interested in learning new techniques and new tools so I thought I would come along and say hi and maybe share a few ideas.

Thanks.
William.

Welcome William. Post some pictures of your work. We have some very artistic metal shapers here.

Hi William welcome to the forum
Peter

Hi William and Welcome:)
Cheers john

Hi all. I'm not the greatest at this sort of thing though normally I an work it out but how do I post a picture? Great start, I know.

Bill, read the stickys in this thread. I recommend attachments over albums but both are covered.

http://allmetalshaping.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6

OK - thanks for that. I had got most of the way down that road but when I tried to preview all I saw was a message saying 'attachment' and no image so here goes.

This is a flowering cactus, Epiphyllum Oxypetalum, in marine grade alloy.

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Above is the finished composition. It was made in five pieces that all pin into a wall bracket that is invisible once the piece is assembled. Next it was powder coated, the flower and stem in satin white and the leaves in grass green.

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This is the completed sculpture. The colours have been given depth and life using acrylics as the powder is very two-dimensional.

Let's see if that uploads properly and thanks for the tips. Seems like a friendly place in here.

Will

Nice piece William. Nice to have an other artist on forum.

Welcome to allmetalshaping William. Very nice artwork. For a few seconds I thought I was looking at real leaves in the second photo as I scrolled down the picture on my Kindle fire.

David

That is very realistic, but IMHO I would of left it steel finish, you have a done a great job of the sculpture and I think colouring has taken the work away from it.

I usually leave my work in the bare metal but I painted that one more out of curiosity than anything else and now I can't decide which way works best so you probably have a point.

Made some shiny fish and left them shiny. Come to think of it, I really should put some fins on the piranha. Problem with aluminium is it's always the one colour. At least with steel or stainless you can get heat effects or with copper, brass, etc, you can use patina effects but ally doesn't go colourful. I'm going to have a go at anodizing in multiple colours one of these days.

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Hi Bill

Your art work looks great!

Thanks for posting.

Steve

I like the plant both ways. The fish look great too. I am not very artistic but James my employee has turned out some nice stuff in his spare time. He made some fish too.

David

Color
 

Bill,

Try candy colors. They are translucent so that you can see through, and whatever pattern you make on the metal will show through. I think it's Duplicolor available through Summit Racing that comes in rattle cans. Here's one of their products http://www.duplicolor.com/products/metalCast/

You could also order multiple colors to mix and come up with your own variations.

Liking those paints... that's what I'll be spending my pocket money on this weekend. Thanks for that.

Will