Silver Mountains (photo print) patina The original Colorado Flag Map

The original Colorado Flag Map was painted using thinned down acrylic paints over a Colorado road map

This is one of the first of two Arizona map paintings I painted

Long  Skinny Aspens is a one of a kind hand embellished reproduction using our raised  “Molten Metals” process

Painted in acrylics

but once we added the metal snow mountains it doubled in sales

Silver Mountains (photo print) patina The original Colorado Flag MapThe original Silver Mountains was created with a background entirely made with imitation silver leaf. The ground below the mountains was textured first and the sky has the texture of the canvas weave peeking through it. The clouds and the water feature under the mountains were rendered using acid oxidized copper paint to make it patina. I knew when I did the acid over the aluminum leaf it would eat away some of the metal so I painted it the background