Soliloquy II patinas

Been cranking away on the sculpture. She has most of the metal growths removed, just some minor surgery remaining. Then a sand and buff episode, followed by patinas. The first piece was dark shiny skin, with the dress darkened, but damned if I remember how I got there...I have Brass darkening solution here at the home studio, and the other night in class I tried out several jars, including the mysterious "?" jar... I even tried Magnesium oil that my doc gave me for pain...hey, it's a chemical...

First, the progress:

Yup...Shiny...

Here's the detail on the original, please forgive the pixillation, that's the tech:

Most of the patinas didn't do a whole lot; the bare bronze is on the left, with darkening solution on the right. Kinda muddy messy lookin' deal, to me; remind me to use it on my next abstract...

Magnesium oil makes a natural green, except messier; I can get there better with hot sauce or something...

Finally, The "?"on the left, versus the darkening solution on the right. So far, the darkening solution is winning, tho if it were a game, I'd have asked for a refund on my ticket...

I also started trying to figure out bases. This new sculpture is half again as large, so a wood base just doesn't have enough weight to it; we've pretty much agreed that it needs stone. I don't know how to carve stone, so that's another class...

Peace