Ancient Treasures - Barnacles and Patina on a Faux Silver Dish.
Channel: Hilary Bravo
Date: 2021-03-23

Make your own Treasure Trove - Imagine discovering this ancient barnacle encrusted silver dish on day whilst beach combing - create your own treasures - imagine where they have come from - who made them - who used them - the discussions over the banqueting table etc etc - Imagine another world - a parallel world.

Describing what and how I'm going to make this faux silver dish that looks as if it has been discovered on the sea bed - an ancient treasure - one of many.
I love to recreate 'long lost treasures' from my imagination using simple methods and processes that I have discovered and experimented with. 
This dish is made with old newspapers - although harder to find nowadays as we get our news online and Amazon packing paper, paper carrier bags and old fashioned and newly rediscovered brown paper bags. 
I often make my own glues. 
I nearly always make my own paper mache clay and paste recipes and I always try to use my own ideas. 
I have been making for over 30 years so I have quite o lot to share.
I work with bothe paper mache and epoxy resin so the moulds can be used for both.