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March 6, 2008
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Update: The bird skull was broken on this, so it has been remade, and can be viewed here:


Materials are sterling silver wire (tarnished after the piece was finished and polished using ultra fine steel wool) and a Zebra Finch skull (recycled) on a velvet ribbon; the pendant alone is approximately 9 cm long.


© Corviid (Raven A.E.) All rights reserved. This is my own original design; I'll thank you to not copy it. :)
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~AuroraRosealis Apr 22, 2013  New member Hobbyist General Artist
Lovely, lovely! A shame the skull broke, but the re-make is beautiful, too! At least you still have this beautiful image to remember it by.
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Mood: Love ~LunaDormis Jan 16, 2013  Student General Artist
Breath taking.
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~Dark-Charmeleon Aug 17, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
That's incredible! oAo
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*lions-nd-yellocake Feb 26, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Crazy cool piece! Nice work! <3
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~XxAllXAlonexX Sep 18, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
I WANT!!!!!!!!!
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~MissAnnThropia May 6, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
I just remembered this piece of yours and have to ask, what kind of patina did you use as not to harm the skull? Or did you add the skull to the design later?
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=Corviid May 6, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
I added the skull later.. since any kind of patina is going to potentially harm organic material. I use silver-black (i.e. hydrochloric acid) so I have to be extra careful. For wire that has to be added after the skull, I pre-blacken it before working with it - it just gets a little polished by accident as I work with it.
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~MissAnnThropia May 6, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Thanks, I guess this is true for most materials that are not stones.
I suppose using pliers on pre-tarnished wire would be out of the question though, as they would leave scratches.
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=Corviid May 9, 2011  Professional Traditional Artist
It is a bit tricky. The one nice thing about silver-black is because it works instantaneously, you don't have to soak the entire piece; you can apply it directly (with a q-tip, say). You just couldn't get too close to the part with the bone.

I actually did that in this piece: [link] if you look closely you can see I left the parts around the ribs on the side their original silver but I applied it directly to the surrounding parts. It created a nice look in the end with the mixed metals.

Good luck!
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~MissAnnThropia May 12, 2011  Hobbyist Artisan Crafter
Ohh, that's very cool. I'll try finding it on eBay or somewhere where they ship to Croatia. It would be great if it also worked on bronze...
Yes, this piece of yours looks really nice, it's actually one of my favourite works of yours :)
Thank you! :hug:
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