As with most of our techniques for creating relief within individual wallpiece parts, we often take advantage of the texture by distressing the patina—heavily brushing it with a stiff wire brush, or sometimes sanding off the surface. This is especially effective with multi-layer patinas such as ochre, dark green, and black. We also use simple flame oxidization on scrap frequently. In recent years, we have begun to make simple, small scrap wallpieces, with a single wallpiece pan as backing, but with a small piece of scrap mounted on the surface. |
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