Mixed bag of a weekend

©2019 Barry Smith - Annealed leaf forms in the cooling basin that I used earlier to clean a paint brush I inked the Christmas tree with - lovely colour!!!

Art or rather creativity took a few different forms over the weekend. Most of Saturday was spent doing repair and maintenance painting in the house; another rehabilitated Christmas tree was delivered; our bronze sculpture was cleaned and waxed; another rusty sculpture repaired; and I almost got ten leaf forms completed for the commission I'm working on.

First that tree - gorgeous colour don't you think?

©2019 Barry Smith - Gorgeous plum ink coloured tree

And there was heaps of badly flaking rust to be removed from the sculpture.

©2019 Barry Smith - There was so much flaking rust that I managed to harvest a couple of small bags so that Fiona and a friend can use the rust in dyeing

The leaf forms went through a pretty typical cycle - I'm up to the stage of forming the stems and then grinding and polishing.

©2019 Barry Smith - Folded silver-plated brass blanks 

©2019 Barry Smith - I decided to make the stem cuts with a saw to get a more accurate finish

©2019 Barry Smith - Marked up ready for cutting

©2019 Barry Smith - I used the guillotine to cut the leaf shapes including chipping around the corner near the stem

©2019 Barry Smith - Hammered and ready for opening

©2019 Barry Smith - Opened - now to form the stems

I'm hoping to install the leaves Tuesday of next week.