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Betty Face Cane
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"Betty"
Original Cane |
The Sweater Grrl
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Sweetheart Betty
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Betty's Shield
pendant |
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I made a dome shape, like in a cabochon,
attached a neck and a rectangle for her shoulders. Slices of chrysanthemum
cane made the sweater and slabs of green clay were sculpted into the shirt
collar. |
Not at all what I had envisioned. I took
a slab of clay and cut out a heart. Attached a slice of Betty (!) and placed
leaf slices around her face.
I know this will work, just have to get
it out of my head and into the clay. |
I was trying for an ethnic sorta thing.
I stuck Betty's face to a slab of clay and started placing slices of the
same chrysanthemum cane I used on the Sweater Grrl around her. Then I just
grabbed a rope of clay and edged it. Betty's face has indentations around
it, like you would do when tooling leather. |
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These ladies all share Betty's face.
Several of them have capes or dresses using
the Night cane, shown below.
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| Lucy
Face Cane |
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"Lucy" |
"Leaf Face Cane" |
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There are 5 canes here. 4 different
leaf canes plus Lucy. It may not look
like much here, but this is how I intended
it.
I will add leaf slices on top of it to give
it a more dimensional look. |
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2-27-01
This one is pretty scary |
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It starts innocently enough.
Face Cane. Kaleidoscope Cane. Now we're
going to make wallpaper. |
Here is where it starts to go wrong.
Making the mirror image: Slice longways
down the cane. EVENLY which I didn't do. The brown log on the right is
the reduced face cane. |
Recombined. Take all 4 kaleidoscope pieces
and turn them backwards so they are surrounding poor Lucy. |
Smoothed and sliced for the wallpaper.
I didn't have the heart to go any farther.
Poor Lucy has turned into a real square. |
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time maybe I'll make some logs of the hair color to fill in the corners.
Egads! |
The
rest of Lucy is going into
the Face Cane Swap. |
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The moment your cat falls
asleep on your lap is the moment you have to go to the bathroom. |
 UPDATE!
2-28-01
I kept staring at the thing (and apologizing
to Lucy) and I had to do something with it.
Thanks to advice at Dianne Black's
Glass
Attic, here is how I salvaged the clay. |
| Thinking crushed ikat. |
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| I took all the slices and stacked them,
offsettting each slice midway. |
Using the brayer, I flattened it all out
and evened up the sides.
Kinda looks like a Band-Aid. This sandwich
went into the pasta machine on #1. (thickest setting) |
Then I cut it in half midway, restacked
and repeated so now I had 4 layers. Sorry, I didn't scan this step.
Before I did this, I cut out much of Lucy's
face and kept the brighter colors. |
Taking the brayer, I squared it up and took
slices off the face of the new cane.
A small piece of blue FIMO translucent was
rolled to the #6 setting and the slices were laid on this. |
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| The strip of translucent with
the slices were rolled on #1, then 2, 3 and 4. The last time, I turned
it so it went through on #5 the long way. |
My purty new pen! |