#copper leaf

Renarin Kholin on oxidized silver leaf with silver and burnt copper and gold —— which I flamed myself. ✨

It’s rare that I make cosmere fan art with any type of analogue medium, but it‘s been a refreshing change of pace between commissions.

some step by step images below the cut !

Etude, 2024

Aquarelle et feuille de cuivre, graphite, 30 x 40 cm

(Study, water color, copper leaf, graphite)

Acrylic paint, gold/copper leaf, and ink-7"×14"

More scurrying and trying to finish work before I lose the studio.

Copper leaf pendant with Larimar. Wire wrapped copper necklace with real electroformed maple leaf and Larimar bead.

GRAND OLD DAME

unglazed stoneware, copper leafing, bronze powder, 22K gold leafing, linen, wood, glass, paint - 8½"x 12½"x 2½"

In drying the surface of the clay cracked slightly, and I came in and carved the dried clay in the corners slightly. After it was fired I applied a layer of copper leafing over the whole surface, allowing the sheets of leaf to crack and reveal the whitish stoneware below. If I had wanted to get an even uniform layer of copper I would have applied a second layer of leafing to cover the cracks — but in this instance I liked the way the irregular leafing worked with the finely cracked surfaces of the fired clay. I came back with dark bronze powder to color the textured carved corner at lower right, then the surface was sealed and lightly washed. I drew a short horizontal line using dark green color pencil with light pressure, and then applied a thin line of 22k gold leaf over it so the pencil line would appear as a shadow. Then I applied some rectangular ‘patches’ with copper and gold leafing to finish the design of the lips.