The Best My Brownie Will Do...

[SamW]

Marty, there were a very limited number of the deluxe journals that had some of the prints hand colored, I think by Bodmer, using water colors. If I remember right (it has happened), there were less than a total of 1000 journals made from the late 1830's to '41. Not a commercial success.

 

[SamW]

Not deep relief, or even Bodmer related but another example of low relief sculpting. This on a rather large fore-end cap on a bolt rifle.

 

[John B.]

Not deep relief, or even Bodmer related but another example of low relief sculpting. This on a rather large fore-end cap on a bolt rifle.

Great piece of art Sam, thank you for sharing.
Is it in a French Gray finish? Are the bands in the sky silver inlay?
Very, very attractive piece.

 

[SamW]

The cap was rust blued then I grayed the scene. Shows up rather nice. The sky highlight is just polished steel.

Thanks John.

 

[John B.]

The cap was rust blued then I grayed the scene. Shows up rather nice. The sky highlight is just polished steel.

Thanks John.

Thank you Sam, it's a real winner.

 

[SamW]

Another "Brownie" shot of low relief sculpture (example B of Phil's chart, semi-relief sculpting).

 

[John B.]

Another fantastic piece of art Sam.

 

[SamW]

One last "shot" before I retire the old Brownie and look for a more modern camera. Hehehe (as Ron Smith says)

This is in the deep relief format that Phil posts. It is the piece from the Alain Lovenberg GM class in '12. Alain takes his down about 1.5 mm but I stopped at 1 mm as I didn't want to drop a tool down the hole and have to hunt for it. Anyway, the gold wire we were supplied was l think about .025" (.62 mm) and when pounded into the teeth of the background flattened to an estimated .015" (.38mm) or a bit thicker. So this may not look quite as deep overall.

Onward and Upward!

 

[John B.]

Great piece of work Sam, thank you for posting the picture and the description.
That old Box Brownie does a pretty fair job.