Anyway. Here’s today’s experiments. Silver leaf over thinned epoxy, and mica dust over thinned epoxy. I have no idea what I’m doing with the silver leaf! Btw, the traditional adhesive, urushi lacquer is right out - it’s from a super nasty relative of poison ivy. I’ll share my progress as I go!
I’ve final returned to my kintsugi experiments, and produced something I’m happy with!
the silver is so interesting!! I'd love to see copper one day and how it patinas over time with the water exposure!
For sure! I know their imitation gold leaf is part copper. (The silver is just aluminum) I gotta use the fake gold on something and watch it tarnish over time.
An orb most ponderable.
Dang it that's cool
Oh my god, that’s great.
I also did a trunk, it was a great weekend
That was an apoxy sculpt fill for the crack, followed by gilding adhesive, imitation silver leaf, and the sealer on top. I wouldn’t recommend it for anything that sees heavy use or food contact, since both the leaf adhesive and the sealant were water based. We’ll see how it ages in a planter.
A full kit helped me figure out the silver leaf process. That said, I don’t think I’d recommend the barnabas one I used, even though I like it. They were a bit deceptive how they were selling their fake gold + silver leaf. This was my test. You can see where there were bubbles in the adhesive.
