Monday, December 28, 2009

What to do? What to do?











Here are some pictures of my latest face cane. As you can imagine it was quite tedious to make but I am really happy with the way it turned out. It only took about three weeks to finish. It took quite a lot of planning. As you may have guessed I used an extruder. Over and over and over and over...... The finished cane is 5.5 X 8 X 2 and weighs just under 4 pounds. Now I have to decide what to do next. I really want to take a slice off of it at its current size. Not an easy thing to do. Plus the more I take off of its height the less I have to work with and the harder it will be to reduce. So then I have to ask what I want the end result to be. I could reduce it and make jewelry out of it or leave it large, see how many slices I can get out of it and make wall art. Maybe both? Decision! Decisions! Of course there is no greater fear than to put that much work into a cane and either screw up the reduction or take the reduction too far and lose the effect or the details. I am also worried about the gaps between the mosaics. Of course I tried to eliminate them as much as possible but I know that there are gaps. Stay tuned to find out what I end up doing next.

29 comments:

  1. Oh my God!!! You are a real cane master!!! Incredible!!!

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  2. Absolutely stunning and incredible work. Love it!!!

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  3. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!
    C'est Fantastique!! une merveille!!
    BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

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  4. you are an amazing artist!!!!!!!! I adore everything that you make

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  5. You are a warrior queen to take such risks for your art. Re making use of the full-size cane, perhaps some of your mentors could advise whether you could paint on a layer of resin to help make a stabilized cane from which you could cut a full size slice to bake after the resin has dried. That's what my imagination suggests. I have no experience with it.

    Thanks for keeping us BRPCG folk advised of your new work. Hope you can make it up the mountain for our January meeting.

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  6. Wow, your cane is just stunning! You do such beautiful work.

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  7. Wow! This is wonderful. I like it just as it is! I, too, would be afraid of losing the color effects in reduction. I can't wait to see what you do with it!

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  8. You've outdone yourself Julie! This cane is just fantastic! It reminds me a bit of an art quilt I saw online, the face was sewn entirely of clothing labels.

    Amazing!

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  9. So very cool!! Fantastic cane!! I can't wait to hear what you decide to do!

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  10. holy crap Julie, that is beyond frakkin amazing

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  11. I love it! You have far more patience than I!

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  12. Thank you so much for sharing your work with me- a mere mortal- please don't ever stop.

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  13. This is the most amazing cane I've ever seen. I am very anxious to see wht you do with it. It is just awesome! KUDOS!

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  14. spectacular!
    see you in laurel?
    say hi to the old gang
    cheryl m

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  15. What a fantastic way to end the year!
    Looking forward to phase 2 whatever it may be...

    gera

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  16. I'm impressed- It's terrific!!!

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  17. Wow.... Gorgeous.... I love it...

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  18. what beautiful work ! I don't find the words to say how much it's wonderful

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  19. This is the most stunning cane I´ve ever seen. What a great job and what effort you put in your work! Be very proud!!!

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  20. Wonderful work! What extruder did you use? I would bake the whole thing frame out the sides, put resin on both sides and have it be a hanging piece that can be admired from both sides. It's great the way it is!

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  21. Patti,
    I used the green Makins extruder. I also used an extruder clamp that I purchased when I was at Clay Carnival. I don't remember if it was Sue Kelsey's or Cathy Johnston who sold it. I'll take a pic and post info about it.

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