Drawing On Copper Sheet

Place a piece of copper on a flat surface.

Drawing on copper sheet.

I purchase my copper plates from a printmaker s supply company online. Consider starting with a smaller piece first such as a 5 x6. Metal embossing tools or a stylus may be used as well for similar effect even a craft stick presses the metal down enough to create a design. Deep drawing is put a metal sheet or stainless steel plate on the mold through place force it will deform the sheet metal material homogeneous.

Drawing can also be used to cold form a shaped cross section. Use a pencil to draw a design on your copper. Although the drawings show the components in detail some items such as nails may not be shown for the sake of clarity. Press the design into the metal with the capped end of a pen as if you were drawing on paper.

Most punching and blanking technology through drawn or press let the material deformation to get what we wanted dimensions. Copper materials are shown in copper color all other building materials are shown in black. Use a size appropriate to the size of wall hanging you want to make. Copper plate if properly prepared is a smooth archival oil painting surface that s been used by artists for hundreds of years with stunning results.

Depth drawn is a metal forming technology. The drawings are presented in two colors. The thicknesses that basic copper carries are 1 mil copper foil 1 4 mil copper foil 3 mil 5 mil 36 gauge 8 mil 32 gauge 10 mil 30 gauge. Steels copper alloys and aluminium alloys are common materials that are drawn.

To create your designs set the copper shiny side down atop a sheet of shipping foam or craft foam. The drawings are intended to show the relationships of the materials.