Metal Sculpture Raven?

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Austin T

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I might be building a raven in my metal class out of steel, I have the carcass figured out. Is there a hardware item that looks like feathers? Or whats a good way of doing feathers?
 
you can look at this two ways. depends on the amount of time and energy and professional look you want. You can either cut out the wings from one piece of very thin steel, then incise the feather pattern on the steel with your torch or with a hot-applied patina, or paint it on with suitable paint; or you can make the wing pattern in an outline with overlaid strips or thin rods, then weld on individually made feathers. Be sure to start your pattern of feathers from the tips with each feather overlaid the previous one till you get up to where it connects to the body. You also have the choice to weld the grid onto the body first then overlay individual feathers, or create the wings then weld onto the body. I would most likely do the former. tip: pay attention to relationships in size, and give your piece some movement (gesture.)

Using hardware pieces from the junkyard is a fun way to recycle and you can just do what I do - wander around till something strikes you as "suggesting" feathers, glom onto it and do the "oh boy, oh boy, I found some wonderful junk" dance on the way out....
 
you can look at this two ways. depends on the amount of time and energy and professional look you want. You can either cut out the wings from one piece of very thin steel, then incise the feather pattern on the steel with your torch or with a hot-applied patina, or paint it on with suitable paint; or you can make the wing pattern in an outline with overlaid strips or thin rods, then weld on individually made feathers. Be sure to start your pattern of feathers from the tips with each feather overlaid the previous one till you get up to where it connects to the body. You also have the choice to weld the grid onto the body first then overlay individual feathers, or create the wings then weld onto the body. I would most likely do the former. tip: pay attention to relationships in size, and give your piece some movement (gesture.)

Using hardware pieces from the junkyard is a fun way to recycle and you can just do what I do - wander around till something strikes you as "suggesting" feathers, glom onto it and do the "oh boy, oh boy, I found some wonderful junk" dance on the way out....
 
you can look at this two ways. depends on the amount of time and energy and professional look you want. You can either cut out the wings from one piece of very thin steel, then incise the feather pattern on the steel with your torch or with a hot-applied patina, or paint it on with suitable paint; or you can make the wing pattern in an outline with overlaid strips or thin rods, then weld on individually made feathers. Be sure to start your pattern of feathers from the tips with each feather overlaid the previous one till you get up to where it connects to the body. You also have the choice to weld the grid onto the body first then overlay individual feathers, or create the wings then weld onto the body. I would most likely do the former. tip: pay attention to relationships in size, and give your piece some movement (gesture.)

Using hardware pieces from the junkyard is a fun way to recycle and you can just do what I do - wander around till something strikes you as "suggesting" feathers, glom onto it and do the "oh boy, oh boy, I found some wonderful junk" dance on the way out....
 
you can look at this two ways. depends on the amount of time and energy and professional look you want. You can either cut out the wings from one piece of very thin steel, then incise the feather pattern on the steel with your torch or with a hot-applied patina, or paint it on with suitable paint; or you can make the wing pattern in an outline with overlaid strips or thin rods, then weld on individually made feathers. Be sure to start your pattern of feathers from the tips with each feather overlaid the previous one till you get up to where it connects to the body. You also have the choice to weld the grid onto the body first then overlay individual feathers, or create the wings then weld onto the body. I would most likely do the former. tip: pay attention to relationships in size, and give your piece some movement (gesture.)

Using hardware pieces from the junkyard is a fun way to recycle and you can just do what I do - wander around till something strikes you as "suggesting" feathers, glom onto it and do the "oh boy, oh boy, I found some wonderful junk" dance on the way out....
 
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