Project 4 from KSmith. Category: Decorative Metal Art – Wall Sculpture

[KSmith]

I live in Washington apple orchard country. In the winter, I sometimes see apples still hanging on the trees, bare of leaves. I’ve even seen golden delicious apples, still yellow on the tree in winter. When I came across a couple out of round brass bushings, I snatched them up to use as winter apples in a wall sculpture.

I cut the brass bushings into 3/16” thick rings on my 4x6 bandsaw. I built a frame of 1” x 1/8” angle, 28x28” square. The frame would support a sheet metal background.

The tree was made from various thicknesses of steel rod, tig rod end leftovers, some 1/8” and 3/32” tig rod. I Mig welded everything together. I soldered the brass rings to steel wire stems which I Mig’d to the branches. I made a single copper leaf. The tree branches and trunk were drilled and tapped to be held into the frame by machine screws.

I tacked the sheet metal background piece into the frame from behind. After cleaning the tacks on the front, I began making the abstract landscape, using patinating chemicals.

The photos show where I am at so far. I patinated today, and so far am happy. The sky portion will be patinated futher with white, a winter sky, and other details will be added in the terra portion.

After the background is done, I will begin finish work on the tree, and the patination of it.



The last photo's color balance is a bit off, not quite so yellow overall. Stay tuned….I will be adding photos as the work goes forward.

ken