Thursday I spoke wrote to soon!
On the way to the foundry I realized that I had forgotten to take note of the edition numbers and dates for the two works but turning around meant loosing the whole morning and it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve had to stamp the date on a bronze that had already received its patina… On Friday of course the stamp slipped, scratching the surface….

Hard to say if this was simply due to fate or if other even stranger magics were at work but the fact is that within my “what to do with all these old bronze works from my past” inner fight there was a voice saying that turquoise colored patina could be better… Cornered by these events, I faced the beast Saturday and attacked it with my long unpracticed and stale patina making technique which lead me closer to disaster than I care to admit but then somehow, towards the end of a 3 hour fight and as dusk was falling (I was outdoors in the cold), all came together out of nowhere and turned into the patina as you can see on the right of the picture, the left being as it was on the work return from the foundry.

Yeah, I think it looks better now too…

:-p