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Steel patina

How do you patina steel and get all the purples and blue hues?

Damon C Brown
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
2002

Heat treat it and then quench the steel

Trevor Crichton
R&D practical scientist
Chesham, Bucks, UK
2003

I was searching for steel patinas and found the yellow-orange patina referred to in another post. I see instructions on the blue/purple coloring but is the product available somewhere (or the recipe)?

Jackie Flowers
artist - Los Angeles, California, USA
2005

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