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Tamara · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:04 am Post subject:

Hi Heidi,

I think this is the perfect finish for this piece! Sepia does give her that antique look. This patina looks so much like a real bronze off white patina (like I have on my Blessings Bloom sculpture). I love the color you've achieved. What products did you use to do this? It looks like you may have used a hot patina on her which looks so nice.

I hope you have a great show in Oregon!
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Heidi Maiers · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject:

Tamara, the cast granite gave it a cream color with lots of speckles already, but then I just applied a diluted coating of solvent dye (a few drops of brown with a couple drops of yellow, diluted with solvent) and used a rag to rub that on. It settled in the deeper areas to bring out the detail a bit. Then applied a wax coating that had one drop each of brown and yellow solvent dye to give it that antique color. No hot patina on this one.
I don't think I've shown the back in this thread. Here it is:

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