Medallions are done

I went up to Carolingia today to finish the medallions for the coronets. I put another 2 layers of color on most of them. There were a couple of leaves which I thought looked dark enough without any more green on them so I put clear on those instead. I am very happy with the way they came out. For the first time I had tried enameling I think they look pretty good. I might have moved the leaves around a bit if I had it to do over, but they are going to have to do.

We also spent some time playing with some plating solutions to see if we could coat brass with either silver or gold-tone. The coronet I had envisioned had a gold cutout pattern over a blackened background. You can see in the picture that the sample piece of brass we had definitely turned silver on the left side where we treated it with the silver plating liquid. It is a bit harder to see that the band in the middle is really black. The light is reflecting off it oddly. Over on the right side we dipped it into the gold-tone plating liquid. since the brass is already a gold color it is hard to see the difference. however after the first dip it looked much shinier on that end. After a second dip the gold tone got darker. It might have started to look a little coppery. It was hard to tell on the limited sample.