Palladium calligraphy – Taiwanese Souvenir

In order to make a permanent black Chinese calligraphy, black palladium powder was used to fabricate a Chinese “good fortune” character on a white plate. As shown in the following picture, a thick-silver sculpture was covered with black palladium powder, resulted in a black-palladium calligraphy. 

Stone Painting (2)

Stone painting by using noble metals is a versatile art. As shown in the following picture, a written Chinese Buddha character on a stone was made of silver. The thick-silver word has a strong adhesion on the stone by a chemical-free process. 

Stone Painting

In addition to porcelain painting, stone painting was also conducted in our lab. As shown in the following pictures, three stones were coated with silver metal. The silver thickness is around 0.2 to 0.4 mm. The adhesion between silver and stone is very strong, therefore, could not separate by any knife. As a result, we can make a beautiful stone has silver surface by using a chemical-free process.

Bamboo Painting – Taiwanese Souvenir

Bamboos are of notable economic and cultural significance in Taiwan, hence a porcelain painting of bamboo-tree was created using silver and palladium. As shown in the following picture, it is a typical bamboo painting made of noble metals, a valuable Taiwanese souvenir.

Porcelain Painting – Taiwanese Souvenir

Silver along with palladium were painted on a porcelain to form a new porcelain painting. Different from regular porcelain painting, a noble-metal embossment was formed on the porcelain. As shown in the following picture, owing to the presence of palladium, this silver embossment has different colors. This is a new Taiwanese souvenir.

Taiwan Souvenir – Sweet Olive Leaves

Sweet olive native to Taiwan, therefore, it was cultivated as an ornamental plant in my garden. The leaves are long and broad, with an entire margin. Four leaves with stem were turned into their corresponding silver sculptures. To enhance the nobility, these silver leaves were palladiumized. As shown in the following pictures, these noble silver-leaves are nice Taiwan souvenirs.

Taiwanese Souvenirs

To demonstrate the unique of our silver leaves, two small maple leaves were turned into their silver sculptures. As shown in the following pictures, their vein-structures give beautiful textures. They are Taiwanese souvenirs.

Taiwanese Souvenirs

To show the unique shape of ginkgo-leaf in Taiwan, two leaves were turned into their silver sculptures. As shown in the following pictures, each leaf is beautiful, though they have different shapes.

Sugar Maple - Taiwanese Souvenir

Sugar maple is very rare in Taiwan, hence only imperfect leaf-blade was obtained at this time. As shown in the following pictures, although the obtained leaf has ruffled edge and bug holes, its corresponding silver sculpture is perfect. The silver leaf is obtained from a Taiwanese leaf, hence it is a Taiwanese souvenir.

Silver Ginkgo Leaf – Taiwan Souvenir

The ginkgo in Taipei is leafing out. A ginkgo leaf was turned into its corresponding silver sculpture. As shown in the following pictures, its beautiful leaf-veins was revealed detailedly by the silver sculpture. It should be a valuable Taiwan souvenir.

Golden Taiwan – Taiwanese Souvenir

Golden sculptures of Taiwan-island shape were created by using gold foils and gold particles. Instead of grains, gold foils can reduce the bulk density of the sculpture. Therefore, as shown in the following two pictures, only 9.5 and 5.3 grams of pure gold were used to fabricate these two Taiwanese souvenirs.

Noble Silver Art

The silver leaves we made are tarnish-free at my office for more than two years. In order to enhance the tarnish resistance of our silver leaves, a new way to increase the gold fraction on the silver-leaf has been developed. This new way could probably give a better tarnish-resistance result. We elaborate silver leaves without chemicals. Our silver-leaves contained only silver and gold, as shown in the following pictures, the created silver ginkgo-leaf should be a noble silver art.

Gold Ginkgo Leaf – Taiwanese Souvenir

The vein structure and jagged edge of ginkgo-leaf-blade are very special, hence I planted four ginkgo trees in my garden. Many new leaves were found in this month. As shown in the following pictures, a leaf was turned into its corresponding gold sculpture. This gold ginkgo leaf is a nice Taiwanese souvenir.

Gold Ginkgo Leaf – Gold Art

Try to have a gold art work, a beautiful ginkgo leaf was selected to turn into its corresponding gold sculpture. As shown in the following picture, a gold ginkgo leaf was created by using only 11.4 grams of pure gold. The thickness of this gold sculpture is around 2.3 mm.

Gold Stems – Taiwanese Souvenir

In addition to leaves, I also like the stems. The composition of some plant stems was very attractive to me. As indicated in the following picture, beautiful plant stems were turned into its gold sculpture, a nice Taiwanese souvenir.

Gold Sakura – Taiwanese Souvenir

It looks best in spring when the Taiwanese cherry blossoms are out. As shown in the following picture, a gold cherry blossom (sakura) was created using thick gold foils along with gold particles. This pure-gold sculpture is a nice Taiwanese souvenir.

Golden Taiwan – Taiwan Souvenir

Golden sculptures of Taiwan-island shape were created by using gold foils and gold particles. To be Taiwan souvenirs, as shown in the following pictures, three golden sculptures were formed by using 16.3, 19.6, and 28 grams of pure gold respectively

Heart-shape Gold – Taiwan Gift

In addition to the Kitty Gold mentioned yesterday, different gold designs are easily obtained by the pure gold with different colors. As indicated in the following picture, 11.9 grams of pure gold with different colors were used to produce a double-heart-shapes gold-gift.

Kitty Gold – Taiwan Gift

Owing to different size along with different morphology, we can prepare pure gold with different color. As a result, pure-gold design could be obtained by gold powder and thick gold leaves with overall hackly in texture. As shown in the following picture, a Kitty design was obtained by using 7.1 grams of pure gold