I watched a couple videos by Thak ironworks and thought it looks like fun and gave it a 30 minute try.  Was fun and I want to do more  I call him “sleepy joe”

Looks good for a first try.  What did you use under the copper to brace it?

Thanks Das. I just used an old stump for dishing and my anvil. It was a pain to keep from moving around. I will clamp it down next time

I may make a pitch bowl if I want to pursue this. It sure was fun to do and surprisingly easy

Pretty good for just using a stump and anvil. I bet you could really get going if you made the pitch bowl. Plus the pitch would help it from moving around I would think. 

How many times did you need to anneal while working it?

I didn’t anneal it at all. I only had about 30 minutes on it and put my plumbers torch to it at the end to try to flame color it with disappointing results as shown. Thanks 

On my few attempts at flame coloring copper I found it tricky and didn't end up with what I really wanted. 

Got home a bit early and gave it another try. Spent about an hour and a half. annealed it once

now I really want to make some chasing tools and get some pitch

I like the way the nose came out and was able to make some lips of sort

Looks great for a first Pedro. It's lots of fun. If you get a pitch bowl keep an eye out for a small inner tube to make  the bowl holder. The "right" way is with a leather shot ring and filling it with lead shot is way stable but you can fill a small inner tube with rice or beans and have a decent holder that will hold the bowl at the angle you need to work from comfortably.

I did a little repousse on a cookie tin lid, it's deep draw steel and pretty malleable. I only tore through a couple small places, I didn't anneal soon enough.

Fun way to spend an evening.

Frosty The Lucky.

Nice!

  Have you done more Rojo?  Your faces inspire me.  I find them facinating.  Faces are the hardest thing for artists to capture.  I don't have that talent in any medium.

Hi Nodoubt

I have a bit. I havent had lot of time lately. 

I did this mostly from the back on this wonderful sand bag my son in law made me. 

I also bought a couple pounds of pitch but only got a few whacks in on one of the raised shell lines and one leg before it popped off.

It was a fun experiment and I need to find the time to continue. Thanks for asking

In copper you can clean it and then enamel it; perhaps a nice faience blue?

  Very nice!  It reminds me of Poe's short adventure  story, "The Gold-Bug".  A gold bug is dropped on a string through the eye socket of skull nailed to a tree to locate a buried treasure, IIRC.    Keep it up!

I spent the last couple days camping and I brought a bag of tools and made these guys

I call them My Cheesy Moon and Sun Burn. 
 

was super fun to do and I learned a lot.   Heres my set up. 

I tried to flame color the moon but the smoke kind of varnished it and I think its really cool looking finish. May try some steel wool to bring up some high lights. 

 

I really like how the sun turned out. My  wife says his eyes bore into her sol. 

so easy and fun that every ine should try it  thanks for looking

 

Cool work Rojo. Those would look great in some forged frames to hang up or stand up. 

You're getting good at repousse Pedro. Cheesy moon is a perfect name. The sun looks like a judge to me. 

In all the years I spent sitting around a camp fire forging things it never occurred to me that repousse would be more relaxing and as much fun. 

Frosty The Lucky.

Thanks gents. 
same here Frosty, I havent forged at the campfire yet but we camp alot and I wish I had discovered this earlier on. 

    I love them both but Cheesey Moon catches my eye.  Do you go to craft fairs or markets?  I bet those would sell.  Do you draw a pattern on the back?  I hope you continue on and post more pictures.  They are fun to look at!

Mr. R. Pedro,

Wonderful work.

Think big,

Those artistic creations should be sold in art galleries, with a commensurate hefty price.

Especially if they were somewhat larger.

Just another thought from the, 

SLAG.

Thanks for the kind words fellows. 

Mr.  Slag,  do you really think so? I just kind of considered it messing around. 
 

i said to my self that I would like to try a life size face and know my head is spinning a bit thinking about the possibilities.....hmmmm

Mr. Nodoubt, yes I drew it on with a sharpie first. The moon morphed a bit from the drawing like the butt chin my son recommended. I wish I had taken a picture of the suns drawing because it came out much closer to the drawing and what i had in mind

Mr. R. Pedro,

Yes I know so.

the SLAG says.

Give it a shot.

Talk to someone knowledgeable in the art scene to get advice before you take it around to art galleries. (perhaps a professor at a local art school).

You do not want to be taken advantage of.

SLAG.

A larger size will transform you artwork from novelty to very serious art.

  Thanks for the photo, Rojo, those help a lot.  I kind of figured you did but I'm thinking of trying my hand and wanted to ask.  I have other questions but I will do a little research and thinking first. 

Anytime, here is a progress picture with the tools I used most. 
 

after getting the general shape dialed, I used the medium lining chisel, 2nd from left, and the little curved chisel  for 90% of the detail work. 
 

I found that I need to refine and polish my tools a bit as you can see the tooling marks

Altoid and cookie tins are good to practice on and they're WAY cheaper than copper sheet. Brass is a LOT harder, it work hardens abruptly so you tend to get a LOT more breaks and punch throughs. I did the one below on a cookie tin lid, quite a while ago. It was relaxing, happy hand work. Very meditative. This was my first try, I didn't refine it more, there were too many cracks. The other couple were catastrophic failures.

Frosty The Lucky.

  Is that you standing there?    I like it. 

I have to try it.