These
were made for a swap coming up in January 2001.
It was my idea, so I guess
I'd better come up with something good. |
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From top to bottom: raw
cane slices on unbaked pen; baked, glittered pen; almost finished
pen with 3 coats of Future floor wax. |
Unbaked
Baked with glitter
3 coats of wax
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More detail
Still not wonderful with
the scanner. These are darker than in r/l. |
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This
was a kaleidoscope cane. The center triangle is white with blue specks,
then a sheet of turquoise blue clay, another layer of speckled clay, a
layer of blue. Then I covered a log of white with blue and stuck it to
the side of the triangle. On top of this went a small triangle covered
in blue, with the edge sticking over the top of the stack. I added a layer
of blue speckled with white and shaped it into the final triangle.
As you might have guessed,
I worked from the inside out.
After that, the basic shape
was done, so I pulled out the triangle and cut it into 6 pieces and combined
them, points inward and covered with a layer of turquoise blue rolled to
a #2 setting and doubled.
To cover the pens, I reduced
the cane to about 1" across and cut it in half. I rolled one end of a piece
to 1/2". The other piece, I reduced one side to 3/8" and the other end
to 1/4".
I rolled a sheet of turquoise
to the #6 and covered the pen with it. Then I cut about 10 slices from
the largest end and put the slices on at random. Then I began filling in
spaces from the next largest, and so on until the pen was mostly covered.
I smoothed and rolled it until it was as good as it was going to get, then
I rolled the smallest end into teensy slices and filled in any gaps. I
rolled it again until it was smooth as glass.
Once it was rolled, I dropped
it into a baggie with superfine glitter and shook it til it was well coated.
I pleated an index card and put it in a fold. Once it was baked and cooled,
I stuck it on a bamboo skewer and put the skewer into my tool rack along
with the other 5 pens I'd made.. Using a soft artist's brush, I painted
on Future floor wax and let it dry on the skewer in the rack. It looks
kind of like fancy cattails sticking out. Every 15 minutes, I'd add another
coat of wax until the glitter didn't feel so scratchy.
What I learned: Premo!
white burns much more easily than FIMO does. (In my experience as always)
Make sure your daughter didn't turn up the heat to bake cookies. When working
with white and light colors, wash hands often and keep all critters far
away. Might help to clean out pasta machine really well first. |
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I recombined some of
these canes.
This is one of Donna Kato's
wallpaper canes. See "Mirror Images" for more. This time I didn't make
enough of the cane, so I'm going to be making more.
Hey, all snowflakes are
different, right? Going to try a new technique.
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