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copperleafstudios

Copper Leaf Studios
- hand cut metal artist based in Northeast Ohio

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OPEN STUDIO EXHIBIT
The day is nearing for our open studio event! The space, once an open pavilion, is nearing the end of its transformation into a beautiful combined showroom/ workspace. In celebration of a newly finished space, we will be having an exhibit and reception on Saturday, November 16th from 3-7 p.m.

What:
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Open studio exhibit and reception

When:
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Saturday, November 16th, 3-7 p.m.

Where:
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Copper Leaf Studios is located on a private farm in Northeast Ohio. It's about 50 minutes east of CLE just east of Geneva on the lake. If you're interested in attending, just comment below and I'll message you the address :)

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Cut and etched the top layer of this piece today. Wasn’t initially planning to give it depth, but after taking this pic, think I must💕

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A little something new~ I don’t often leave the zinc raw in my work, but am making an exception for this guy. The moon will stay silver and the surrounding pieces will become a deep navy blue.

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All the places.

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More experimenting~ this time with text etched into zinc. Not set on what the finished piece will look like, but this will become a background for a botanical piece. I’ve been wanting to incorporate more of my writing into my artwork lately, but never had a good combination of words and imagery. This one feels right.

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Testing out a cut pattern for a possible commission~

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New work, and current mood~ part of my “Intentions” series. Tiny reminders to keep doing the things we sometimes forget to do...

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Working on some new copper photos for an upcoming studio event. I make a lot of these as custom pieces, but so rarely take the time to make them from my own photography. Didn’t realize how much I’ve missed it.

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Took me three tries to get that color, but finally nailed it. #nofilterneeded

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Working small these days. Currently in love with crimson reds, vibrant copper, and negative spaces. This little guy is currently available at @mcellars ~

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Install pics of Safe/Sound! Super happy with how this piece turned out. Spacing and alignment were tricky with so many pieces and no straight lines, so I made a full size paper pattern with all the hanging channels marked (shown in first pics). Happy to say the install went smoothly and we were done in record time!

Huge thanks to @grayhausstudios for the project, @mgentilestudios for the flawless install, and @foxfeathersdesigns for the assist!

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Haven’t posted much lately because this beast of a project and its companion have kept me crazy stressy busy. 24 inch tall etched copper letters formed a 15 ft. tagline in an open office in Solon, Ohio. (Pasty white arms for scale.) I’ll post finished pics later, but I’m happy to report that the install went great and tomorrow I’ll be taking a celebratory day off! Cheers~!

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Little experiment~

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Been thinking about this piece a lot lately. The year I made it was the year we enclosed my studio, and it was one of at least seven other large commissions I did that year (the others were not all quite as big, although several were). By the time I got to this one, I only had four weeks to create it, start to finish. Every inch of all 12x4 feet of it was cut, etched, scrubbed, and finished by hand. My whole body ached by the end of it (and for some months after), but I’m proud to say I made that deadline.

Friday I confirmed two large-scale commissions for the same company, which means they both share the same all-too-close deadline. Add in a few smaller but equally exciting projects and some outstanding proposals that are likely to resurface, and you have the recipe for a pretty intense summer. Normally I’d be fretting right about now, but whenever I feel myself slipping in that direction, I say to myself “Remember that piece? The big one with the impossible deadline? Yeah, you got it done. Just do it again. But maybe this time with a little less fretting.”

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Working on a lot of smaller pieces these days, including this little guy. I like to balance small projects and bigger ones~ it keeps me from feeling overwhelmed by the big stuff, plus it gives me the satisfaction of completing something. This year I’m doing a lot of building and working *on* my space rather than *in*, with the goal of doing an open studio event in the fall. The space will take months to finish, plus the three years we’ve been working on it so far. I’m nervous/ excited, and up to my ears in stacks of hemlock and sawdust. Can’t wait to share.

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Hand cut etched zinc, work in progress~ this is pre-color, but the raw metal textures are always so striking✨

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Work in progress~

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Something new in the works ✨

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