Flame Painting Copper Jewellery - A Beginner’s Guide
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- Due to popular demand, today I bring you a flame painting tutorial. It truly is amazing to see the copper come to life in an array of shimmering colours as you heat it with a hot flame. Today I will give you some of the basic knowledge to get you started on your own flame painting adventure. This skill is best learned through practise so I encourage you to just have a go.
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Thank you for this video, you are amazingly talented :). Two tips for sealing copper so as to preserve the colors better: 1. Instead of the resin you used, why not try a lighter/less dense version - the one that is called Top Coat. Top Coat resins (for manicure) are specially formulated in such a way to not only preserve the pigments underneath, but they also enhance/improve the look of holographic films, pigments, painted details, etc. This makes sense, like changing the objective glass on a camera - the refraction of the light is different with different resins. Also, these resins are thinner, and you get a thinner resin layer (less resin for the light to go through), and they also cure in 30 seconds :). Also, of you want your jewelry to be scratch resistant, choose Scratch Resistant Tempered Top Coat (no wipe), which has a better formulation than ordinary top coats. Tip 2. If a UV LED lamp is overheating the resin and hence the copper during curing, there is a new generation of LED lamps with a "gentle" heating option, for women who are sensitive to heat. It starts to cure the resin much more gradually, and the heat that develops is not intense at all, but more lukewarm. Also, you can make pauses and instead of curing for the full amount of time, you can break it up into sections, to let copper cool in between.
Are you referring to the nail polishes? Just curious.
@@jpcolindesign517 This is not the ordinary nail polish that dries on air, but a UV gel top coat (looks like a clear nail polish), and yes it is used for nails, but this is UV resin, so it needs a UV light to cure.
Thanks so much! I’m a beginner too so it’s great to learn from someone who doesn’t get to technical. Please keep going
Could never get tired of hearing you talk! I love your accent. All of these are brilliant, my fave was the triangle xxx
OMG. These are just GORGEOUS. I have already made copper jewelry before, but have never seen this process - and how EASY it is!! Great video!
I found your video very helpful.You did a great job explaining for us beginners.I am a 71 year old grandfather in new jersey usa who started making copper jewelry about 6 years ago after a major heart attack, had never done anything creative before that. I am going to do some flame painting of copper , there i something about copper I LIKE. Loved your video great job explaining it thanks a lot
Thank you so much. I’m glad you found your copper work to be therapeutic, you will have a great time with flame painting I’m sure. Happy new year 🙂
Brilliant. Really well done. Lovely pieces…and your demeanour is equally as lovely. All the best.
Gorgeous Louise! Thank you for sharing! 💕
Thank you. I can't wait to try this.
These are beautiful Louise. Thank you for the tutorial.
Fabulous! Thank you so much for sharing this video. I can't wait to try this.
Absolutely gorgeous- will definitely try, many thanks 🦆💕
They are beautiful. That was fascinating
Thanks so much for this Louise. Loved it and will wait for the new year to have a try xx
Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing. ❤
Thank you so much, they are beautiful. I think I might give it a go.
Thankyou ma'am for accepting my request about copper creations 🙈. I'm really happy ❤. Your creations are gorgeous . Keep it up❤
Thanks so much. Your pieces are totally amazing!
So excited for this!
Thank you so much - I've started doing the flame painting and this is so helpful!
Gorgeous!
Wow beautiful. I didn't even know that was possible will give it a try. Thanks
This is definitely a must try for 2022!
All so beautiful !
Thank you for sharing !
On my list of to do / try
Keep safe 💕
Thank you for sharing this, it's fascinating and I'm going to enjoy doing this. I hope you will post more tips and advice, they are always very insightful
Beautiful pieces! Thank you for sharing an incredible tutorial.
This is so amazing i cant wait to try myself thank you for uploading this!!!
So beautiful. Thank you!
Wow! So gorgeous and mesmerizing! I am just in awe of this process! Thank you so much for sharing!❤
Thank you for sharing. I think I now have another medium to add to my repetoire. Beautifully done.
Really beautiful, now I’m going to try!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
You are a gem....very confident and talented. TY
I have a pencil torch (used for soldering usually), I can't wait to give this a try! 💞
Very well explaned and shown. Thank You!
You did an amazing job, they look like opal semiprecious stone. Well done.
Wow! These pieces are just gorgeous! Thank you so much for sharing your talent and explaining the process so wonderfully.
Thank you and you are most welcome.
Love your work, this gives me a new detention to improve with. For this I say think you
These pieces are Gorgeous Louise!!!! 💕💕🧜♀️
Thank you very much Kathy xx
I am amazed by this process, such beautiful results, thank you for sharing.
Very pretty!!!
Louise you amaze me every time you post a video. Thank you so very much for sharing 🤗🤗🤗
Thank you very much x
Beautiful work
Thank you so much, I've been experimenting a lot over the years with copper, and now I'm new to UV resin; finally it's all coming together!!!
New subscriber. This is just what I’ve been looking for. A new technique to add to my jewelry making. Thank you 🙏🏻
Really beautiful 😍
totally love these x
I love your work Louise, I have not tried this yet but will have to add to my wish list. I am hoping for a UV Resin Lamp for Christmas stay safe and keep on inspiring us all xx
Looks pretty.
I'd never heard of flame painting until about half an hour ago when I saw a pair of earrings on Etsy that looked amazing. I just had to find out what and how! Thanks for the tutorial, think I'm gonna give it a go if I can find my torch!
This a an amazing video. simple and not intimidating . ty for sharing! I am starting to make copper pieces for my beaded jewelry and I love this!
Thank you ever so much I’m glad you found the video enjoyable xx
That's really wickedly cool! 💖💖💖👏👏👏🇦🇺
Thank you so much, your work is just beautiful ;-)❤
Lou you are just the Queen of Art. Your video's are so interesting and informative, you always explain everything and in a language we can all understand. Love it when you show different project's, I really must have a go at this. Thank you my dear friend for your time and sharing. Love you x
Hello sweetheart, I’m so sorry for the delay, I’m only just catching up with my TH-cam comments. You are always so kind and you always fill me with such confidence. Thank you my dear friend x
Stunning, you are very talented, thank you so much for sharing your experiences . Merry Christmas and happy New year to your family and you my friend ❤️❤️
Thank you ever so much Sussan, merry Christmas to you too.
This is brilliant Louise! I have never seen this before, it's given me an idea, will share this vid and give you a shout out for the great inspiration 🥰 Thank you 😊
Thank you ever so much Daniel, it really is a great art form and so satisfying once you get into it. I’m glad I inspired you 🙂
Thank you, I found this video absolutely fascinating. Until it showed up on my feed a few minutes ago, I had never heard of flame painting. I always love learning about new ways to make jewelry, though, being blind, this is one I will not be attempting. I think I will stick to my attempts to wire-wrap stones and wrestle it into home-made chain links.
Such Beautiful results. So pretty. I'm a beginner myself and working with PMC copper clay. I accidentally did this to my peace and loved the pattern. But unfortunately for me as I'm still learning it broke! I was extremely gutted. But as they say, practice makes perfect! So hopefully one day, I show give it another go and hopefully get some results like yours. Well done and thank you for your great video. 😊
I love your east riding twang.
WOW!! 😳 Just wow!! My lady... You are so blessed! I feel so lucky to have run in to your studio! Thank you!!
Wow, thank you! ❤️❤️
These are very striking! In 1972, in Provincetown, Mass, I worked in a shop that had similar designs but they used chemicals.....it was a hit then, I imagine this creation will definately find a following! I love them. Thank you for sharing this with us!😊💚💙🧡👍
Thank you, yes it is really fascinating and I would like to have time to explore it further.
Very nice video, you do beautiful work and are a great teacher, I am just starting this hobby and you illustrate it exceptionally well, Thank you for doing this. Bob from Arkansas USA
Thank you!!
Thank you !
Thank you for this video great work ❤I am a nail technician so will use no wipe top coat also will use glitter will be having a play after Xmas 😊❤️👍🏻
I applaud your use of the simple kitchen torch. Keep it simple. It's really working. Besides, those professional torch's come with a price. Like contracts just to fill your tanks. Love your content!
Thank you ever so much Tim. I agree about the fancy torches and I’m not ashamed to say, I find them quite scary!
Thank you so much for this video! Every single one of your pieces turned out so beautiful! I will definitely give it a try now!
How interesting👍
Thank you!!!!!
I happened to look this up when you mentioned it the other day, because I wanted to make something for a work Christmas party this week. I'm extremely happy with the results and it was very easy to do! I couldn't believe all the colors! The camera really doesn't do it justice. And the nice part is, you can't really ruin it; and if you don't like the pattern or colors, just let it cool off and try again!
Exactly! That’s why I love it too, it’s a very forgiving material to use.
Louise I absolutely loved it.
Thank you so much for sharing this ❤️
I will definitely be trying it soon and if I make a video you will get the credit 👍😀❤️
Thank you Wendy, it is lots of fun!
Super helpful info about the progression of colors!
Interestingly, this is the same order of colors when using a liver of sulfur patina on copper that's been heavily plated with silver.
Gorgeous work!
Wow that’s very interesting, thank you for your comment ❤️
I'm going to share this with a flame painting Grp I'm on; you are right about learning from a beginner (although you are so good at it; I wouldn't have thought you were a beginner). I thoroughly enjoyed your video, and I'll have to try your brand of UV resin, mine did not stay on well at all. Thank you!
Thank you so much Sherri, I’m glad it was useful to you xx
Thank you so much, Louise, for showing us this beautiful technique. I stumbled over your video while looking for TIG welding clips. Building a nice little brooch additionally, I guess, could sooth the tension of my wife, after hours of TIGging in the workshop... ;-)
Volker
Haha yes keep her happy, it’s always a good idea!
I wonder you you could seal with caranuba wax (Turtle Car Wax). If that would seal well enough and not change the colors??? What I’m also wondering if the resin is heating up slightly when curing and if that is what’s causing the copper colors to shift again? That’s why I was trying to think of a sealant that wouldn’t heat up. We use Turtle Wax in sealing copper foil soldered joins in traditional stained glass pieces to seal them.
Thank you Linda, the wax is an interesting suggestion, thank you, I will give it a try. I don’t think the heat from the UV curing process is strong enough to cause and colour changes in the copper.
@@LouiseSingletonCreations Although, having had gel nails I can attest to the fact that the gel can get _incredibly_ hot at the level where it bonds to the nail plate - so much so that I've had to pull my hand from the lamp before now... 😫 I wonder if resin might be at all similar? Fab video as ever, Louise. Be interesting to experiment with the Turtle Wax at some point, given what a scientific experimenter you are! 🤗
Other alternative is that there are faster cure lamps around now - 30 seconds I think some of them are - wonder if it would make any difference? Or if it's worth doing a _flash cure_ of very thin layers built up, so by the time the final layer is cured, the heat is far from the copper at the base...
Where art meets science!
I think it’s less about the resin and more about light refraction. Heavier lacquers obscure the light picking up the blues and pinks, so when you’ve flamed the metal it is vibrant but as time goes on it continues to oxidise and the vibrant colours lessen, and uv resin is the least obscuring product that seals the piece the fastest reducing oxidisation, but it reduces light picking up colours.
I love it,the funny thing is,my sister gave me a book,and inside was a copper book mark 1 1/2" × 6" the perfect starter size to practice on
Thanks!
Thank you so much Diana, that is very kind of you. I’m sorry for the late response I’ve been moving house. 🏡
Very nice! are you also putting the resin on the back so that the copper doesn't tarnish or stain the wearer or their clothing?
Just found your channel, love the flame painting copper, had watch a video also of you making resin earrings beautiful! Love your work it’s beautiful thank you for sharing!!! Just Subscribed to your channel 😊
Thank you so much Elizabeth, I’m glad you enjoyed the videos ❤️
The thing is, the person getting/buying the items won’t know that it was a different colour before it was resined! Love them. You give lots of inspiration! 😊
You have a very good point there!👍 thank you for watching ☺️
PS - Wow!... the UV resin really does make it beautiful and shiney! ❤️❤️ Have you ever used ProtectaClear for Jewelry? It doesn't make it look glassy but it does seal jewelry so it doesn't tarnish, it doesn't turn yellow with age, and it maintains it's pre-sealed color. It's sorta expensive but it's really good... much better than Krylon or Rust-Oleum's crystal clear coat. That stuff was awful and I had to strip my jewelry and repolish.
Very interesting and totally beautiful Louise you are always making me say wow! I'll be trying this technique Thank You for sharing your creative talents 😁❤👍🏾💯👏🏾👏🏾
How do you make the pendant hole part please? Thank you!
Thank you very much Cynthia, the copper blank already had the hole in it but I’m sure you could drill one fairly easily (haven’t tried it though)
I love the colours you can get heating metals and a little bit of me is always sad when they’re pickled and polished away.
beautiful ❤does it have to be a real piece of copper.ty
Absolutely beautiful! ❤️ The copper becomes annealed so can you tumble it after painting but before sealing it?
I discovered flame painting last year and played around with it some. I LOVE it and I'm anxious to get my disc cutter today so I can play. 😀 In an attempt to get 2 skinny rectangles almost alike, I laid them on my solder block side by side and touching and I've also partially covered my blanks to create patterns by blocking the flame. I noticed you did your rectangles separately and they look similar. Of course, there's no wrong way to flame paint as long as one is getting color and I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the vibrant purples, greens, and golden oranges. ❤️😊 Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful work! ❤️❤️❤️
I just tumbled a piece of mine to work harden it and unfortunately, I lost a lot of the colour :'( I had cut out the shape of a maple leaf, including a fold over bale and form folded it to make it look wind blown. Then I torched it to solder the bale closed and accidentally got this gorgeous cherry red with some yellow spots. The solder didn't flow properly the first time so that's why I tried tumbling it to harden the whole piece. After tumbling, it still had a bit of the red but it was much more dull. I ended up pickling it and starting over. It's back to the red colour but it will never be the same as that first pattern I fell in love with.
Loved your video!!!! Did not see the link for that torch you use ?
Thank you very much. I think this torch is the same as mine. It’s just a simple kitchen torch with a flame adjustment switch on the side. www.amazon.co.uk/RenFox-Professional-Refillable-Adjustable-Soldering/dp/B07SKG5M4S/ref=sr_1_31_sspa?crid=2AQRIPEIJ446D&keywords=Kitchen%2Btorch&qid=1651735019&sprefix=kitchen%2Btorch%2Caps%2C64&sr=8-31-spons&smid=A10UVYM0JSVJU3&th=1
thank you for this video! i love your work and appreciate the way you talk us through your process
My question for you and the community is, do we need to put a resin on at all? I love the way the resin looks, but I’m wondering if the colors will stay if I chose to not resin at all.
Thank you!!
The metal will tarnish if you dont seal it
I came across your channel by accident and I am so happy I did. You are very talented you do beautiful work. What kind of surface are you working on I don't want to start a 🔥 I will definitely check out all your videos .... You are a great teacher thank you for sharing your ideas and beautiful work👍👍
What kind words Margie, thank you so much xx
Hi Louise, can you tell me what thickness copper you use for earrings and pendants? Thank you, Michele from Australia.
The blanks I got from cooksandgold are so small what is the size of teardrop piece you used in the video?
Just saw your video that Daniel Cooper reccommended and i love it! QUESTION, can one use copper plated blanks? I am not finding much anywhere for pure copper blanks? Any reccommondations would be helpful and very appreciated.
Thank you for watching I got my blanks from
www.cooksongold.com/Enamelling/Copper-Blanks-Round-Domed-Pack-of-6-15mm-X-0.7mm-prcode-860-201A?p=gs&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu96D0YnZgAMVGvntCh23FQAkEAQYAiABEgJbUfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
I don’t think copper plated would work. If you Google ‘copper blanks for enamelling’ should find what you need.
Спасибо ❤️
Do you polish the piece before flame painting it?
Replay. Great video..Thank you
I’ve seen many of your tutorials and love them all. I don’t like using UV light because I have issues with my eyes and I’ve been told by my eye doctor not to use UV light. Could I use regular artist resin like art resin? Why is it necessary to use UV resin? Appreciate your continuing beautiful creations
Hi Barbara. I'm sure you could use normal resin if your copper is very flat. I like uv resin because of the two minute curing time. Waiting several hours for epoxy to cure is just more risky in my opinion, it's hard to maintain control of it when the object is so small. There are other options for sealing the copper though so don't let it stop you xx
Hello Louise, all my gratitude for your generosity, in sharing your knowledge. I want to ask you, in the color scale you describe, in what order do yellow and orange appear? Blessings.
Hello, thank you for your kind words. It’s a long time since I did this but I seem to remember it starts with the orange/coppery colour and then goes to pinks and purples then green and blue.
Thank you very much Louise, for your answer, abusing your generosity, I ask you: With what type of finish do you protect the patinas once finished?, because I have tried two types of enamel, and both modify the colors, removing saturation and intensity, and damage the aesthetics achieved. Blessings.
Beautiful!! I can't help but wonder about something...could it be the UV lamp that dulls the color, rather than the resin itself? Maybe it would be worth experimenting with. (Just a thought, I've never done this but have worked with resin for several years.)
Thank you Erin. That’s a good question and the answer is, I don’t know but I have a feeling that it isn’t. I’ve found that every coating method I have tried has done a similar thing. However somebody else said that daylight effects it so possibly the lamp has an impact.
@@LouiseSingletonCreations ... Such a fun idea! Now I need to do some shopping. Louise, thank you for this tutorial. When my first UV lamp ceased working I used sunlight to cure my resin. (Not resin on metal.) I placed pieces on a cookie sheet in a box and covered my pieces with a glass lid. I didn't want dust or debris to ruin everything. I placed it on the back deck for an hour and everything was cured. I 'found proof' that a bird had visited so the lid saved me. Bluejays!!!! Since then I have placed pieces on my car dash, just in case. I still use a protective lid. Once I have copper blanks I may try sunshine curing to determine if colors fade.
LOL WELL THATS QUICK I FOUND IT LOL THANKYOU LOL
have you exposed the sealed items to the kind of heat you get if you set the item on a window ledge in direct sunlight, i used to flame paint the copper vases i make for my metal roses but no matter what i did to seal in the color, if they were set on a shelf that got direct sunlight through a window the color would eventually fade to nothing, it's not the UV, its the heat.....
Can you use regular resin like let's resin.
Yes you could probably use epoxy resin, it’s just a bit more of a risk because it’s slow curing and has more opportunity to flow over the edges.
Is there anything you don’t do?! These are gorgeous! ❤️
Thank you so much, there are lots of things I don’t do but I really WANT to. I really want to learn wood turning and pottery on a wheel, one day I will!