Mike_Morgan
Elite Cafe Member
As a beginner, I'm finding it hard to find much Bulino instruction in the public domain, shy of buying books and DVD, which I plan on doing. And most of the close-up photos of Bulino that I have seen are not close enough for me to be able to understand what the individual dots and incisions look like under the scope, so I'm coming at this blind.
So what I did here is kind of like pointillism from drawing, though I don't really know how to make the dots with the graver. In the end, what i did was poke at it and hope for the best.
The outlines and line shading in the scales are Pneumatically engraved with a Lindsay Palm control, and the "dots" (If they can be called that) are hand-pushed with e GRS Onglette graver in GRS handle. The onglette graver has no heel.
So, am I close here? The piece is not done yet, I can see where it needs to be darkened up a bit, and such, but I could maybe use some suggestions for technique improvement. This was NOT easy, but I enjoyed doing it to this point.
The Plate is 4" x 6" of half-hard brass, and the drawing of the Koi was nabbed off the internet from a tattoo site.
As always, comments are appreciated! (and links to good bulino instruction would be VERY helpful!)
So what I did here is kind of like pointillism from drawing, though I don't really know how to make the dots with the graver. In the end, what i did was poke at it and hope for the best.
The outlines and line shading in the scales are Pneumatically engraved with a Lindsay Palm control, and the "dots" (If they can be called that) are hand-pushed with e GRS Onglette graver in GRS handle. The onglette graver has no heel.
So, am I close here? The piece is not done yet, I can see where it needs to be darkened up a bit, and such, but I could maybe use some suggestions for technique improvement. This was NOT easy, but I enjoyed doing it to this point.
The Plate is 4" x 6" of half-hard brass, and the drawing of the Koi was nabbed off the internet from a tattoo site.
As always, comments are appreciated! (and links to good bulino instruction would be VERY helpful!)