School Auction Repousse Murals: Round Up

Yesterday I shared copper repousse mural from an old School Arts Magazine. It got me thinking….are any schools making repousse murals today?
P.S. Freestanding repousse murals make great group art projects for the school auction. If you are interested in making a repousse mural at your school, please read this excellent repousse mural tutorial from Donna Kern Ball. For more ideas, be sure to check out my ‘School Auction Ideas: Repousse’ board on Pinterest.

Yes!

I found several.

This auction project uses all the two-tone foils from blick. Nice!

Another mirror. This one has a liver of sulfur patina.

Here is another mural. Click here to see close-ups of all the copper tiles. Used a liver of sulphur patina.

Want to try? Click here for full-color tutorial for making copper repousse tiles.

Materials:

For school use, Mural 2 below uses two tone copper tooling foil roll cut into pieces. or 5″x5″ pre-cut copper tooling foil squares. These pieces are copper toned on one side and aluminum on the other. I’ve used these products and they are easy to work. Mural 1 below used heavier all-copper sheets – I haven’t used them.

(note: these are all compensated affiliate links).

copper murals for school auctions
Photo source mural 1. Photo source mural 2. Photo source mural 3.

Do you like these copper repousse school auction murals? Click here for mural 1, click here for mural 2, and click here for mural 3.

I did a repousse lesson with the fourth grade – click here for my foil repousse  lesson plan.

 

Enjoy!

note: this post contains affiliate links.

Two-Tone Tooling Foil – $16.50
from: Blick Art Materials (compensated affiliate)

art metal tooling foil sheets dick blickArt Metal Foil Sheets – $2.81
from: Blick Art Materials (compensated affiliate)

 

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One thought on “School Auction Repousse Murals: Round Up

  1. I’ve done a lot of metal repousse with my students, but the only time I’ve ever used the heavy gauge copper was when I was a 7th grader myself! I usually use the 36 gauge aluminum with students; the copper is much more expensive and I believe is a bit harder to manipulate. I’ve also used those two-toned sheets you mentioned, copper-tone or gold-tone on one side, and silver on the other, and I’ll be honest – I found the thinner gauge to be really frustrating after using the heavier stuff. I’m used to encouraging students to really push it for deep relief, and you can’t do that on the thin stuff.
    I’ve never done a mural, but I really like the idea of the mirror frame!

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