Thursday, May 21, 2009

Playtime with Metal

Anticlastic raising is one of the many metal techniques. It is a surface having two curvatures (transverse to each other) that lie in opposite directions - convex in length and concave in breadth, or vice versa.

Below is a sequence of pictures to show my progression.


8 comments:

blueberrycream said...

This is so cool!

Anonymous said...

WOW! What a wonderful design! I can't imagine trying to be sure all those curves are exactly equal to end up with that final piece. Great work, I'm envious. Teri
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tkmetalarts said...

Thank you both. To be honest, the final piece there is NOT perfect and doesn't meet exactly point to point. Maybe after a couple dozen more attempts....

Unknown said...

That is amazing! Thanks for sharing your technique.

Mandi said...

Howdy!
There is a blog award for you at http://mandibeads.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-award.html

Thanks for sharing the progression photos; very cool! I love your work :)

Anonymous said...

That's fascinating. What does the final piece become?

Nicola said...

Amazing - you are a truly talented metal basher!!! Love the end result it's so tactile
Nic x

Dawn said...

cool - the color is so pretty...