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Flower and Leaf Cane 03-09-04

03-09-04-1, Start of the Flower Cane Demo.  The 17 Flower Canes made 03-10-04. Used in Demo
frogger70301 joined the room
Katie (crzy4dzny) joined the room
Katie: Well, hello.
frogger70301: eating lunch real quick
frogger70301: Hiya.
Katie: I'll put a little color in here too.
frogger70301:
Elise (dr_elise) joined the room
JennyP (pcajenny) joined the room
Elise: hi Ladies!
JennyP: hi
Katie: Hi!!
Fearless Leader: Ok, cam's ready
frogger70301: ohhh, love that blue & white one in the
front!
Katie: Ohhhh, pretty flowers.
frogger70301: or is it purple?
Katie: I got an order from Karen yesterday. Boy, is
she ever fast at sending things.
Katie: Clay Alley Karen
frogger70301: she sure is!
Katie: I like the blue ones.
Katie: Well, all of the, but blue is my fave. color.
Fearless Leader: Sorry Jenny
Fearless Leader: I can't open your cam right now
JennyP: thats ok
Fearless Leader: got a few things in the air
Fearless Leader: ok
Fearless Leader: now I'm going to show you the flower
JennyP: I jut thought I would send the invite
Katie: Jenny, what are you working on?
Fearless Leader: and the cane that went into making it
Fearless Leader: Jenny, I thank you for your invite
Fearless Leader: I'll start with the yellow, move to
red, then blue and purple
Katie: That's really pretty
Elise: pretty Jenny! I like that one
Elise: great colors
JennyP: ty
JennyP: I have 8 of them to finish up!
Fearless Leader: Folks, I'm going to move through
these canes and flowers and explain the process of
making them
Fearless Leader: ok?
Katie: ok!!
JennyP: k
Elise: k
Fearless Leader: and if we could keep our comments to
the cane and flower construction we can make good time
before my apartment gets too hot
Fearless Leader: ok?
JennyP: k
Fearless Leader: This rose is a cane made with a two
color blend
Fearless Leader: yellow and pink and the blend turns
orange
Fearless Leader: I took the plug of blended colors and
made the yellow part into a "T" shape
Fearless Leader: pinching in the pink
Fearless Leader: then I wrapped the yellow that was
sticking out to the sides
Fearless Leader: and pulled them down
Fearless Leader: over the blend and the pink
Fearless Leader: to just get the top curve of the
petal to have the yellow
Fearless Leader: any questions at this point?
Fearless Leader: ok, does anyone need me to show how
to stretch out this leaf shape into a rose petal and
build a rose?
Fearless Leader: or has everyone seen that and we can
go to the next flower and cane
Fearless Leader: shall we build a rose from this cane
or shall we move on to the other flower and cane pair?
JennyP: i"m good
Elise: me too
Katie: me too
Fearless Leader: sandwich red with yellow
Fearless Leader: then layer with pearl that's longer
so the pearl goes over the yellow and red sandwich
Fearless Leader: wedge
Fearless Leader: slice and form into any flower petal
shape you want
Fearless Leader: now for taking that yellow and doing
a blend with it
Fearless Leader: ok it's a blend with a yellow mixed
with pearl and a dark pink
Fearless Leader: after the blend was done and it
reduced to a plug
Fearless Leader: I sliced it three times and inserted
a darker red
Fearless Leader: pulled the bottom to a wedge
Fearless Leader: slice petals and pulled them into
shape
Fearless Leader: ok, taking pink and yellow again
Fearless Leader: the inserts in this blend
Fearless Leader: is a lace cane
Fearless Leader: made with a pink and red bullseye and
a red surround
Fearless Leader: it was reduce to dots
Fearless Leader: formed as a flat football
Fearless Leader: sliced and inserted in the plug of
blend
Fearless Leader: I think I could have used white
instead of pink in the lace cane and gotten more
contrast
Fearless Leader: when you pull the petals, the
different consistencies of the clay makes texture on
your flower petals
crysalis7 joined the room
Fearless Leader: that lace cane there
Fearless Leader: is the inserts in this blend
Fearless Leader: see how if I used white there'd be
more contrast when it is reduced to mini
Fearless Leader: this is an inverted blend
crysalis7: did you already go over assembly of the
petals into a flower?
Fearless Leader: I'm doing four petal simple flower
like this for samples with the canes here
Fearless Leader: I didn't go over the construction of
the flower yet, just going over the cane design
crysalis7: k
twinmom94002 joined the room
Fearless Leader: I've gone through the yellow ones and
am moving through orange right now
twinmom94002: hi gang!
Katie: Hi
Fearless Leader: shall we do roll call? First name and
Location please
Fearless Leader: NoraJean, San Francisco
Katie: Katie, New York
twinmom94002: lib, san francisco
crysalis7: bobbie, miami
frogger70301: sorry, Mitch, LA
JennyP: Jenny P Minnesota
Fearless Leader: Ok quick review of the flower and
cane pairs
Fearless Leader: orange and pink blend with red stripe
inserts
Fearless Leader: that's what is on cam right now
Fearless Leader: pink and yellow blend as a rose
Fearless Leader: red sandwiched with yellow surrounded
by pearl stacked
Fearless Leader: this is what I was about to describe
Fearless Leader: it's an inverted blend
Fearless Leader: take the blend of any two colors
Fearless Leader: reduce to a plug
Fearless Leader: slice of thin slices off that plug
Fearless Leader: turn them around
Fearless Leader: and insert so the dark goes into the
light and visa versa
Fearless Leader: that big big there
Fearless Leader: was reduced to be the inserts in this
blend
Fearless Leader: so when you pull the petal into shape
Fearless Leader: it has these little bumps
Fearless Leader: because the different color clay
reduces at different rates
Fearless Leader: sort of instant texturizing
Fearless Leader: ok, I'm going to clear these and get
the next set arranged, going into the red shift
Fearless Leader: just a red and white lace cane
Fearless Leader: reduced and at the end I made the
cane heart shaped
Fearless Leader: and covered with pearl
Fearless Leader: flats of gold, fan folded into an
orange mix
Fearless Leader: when you pull the petal the gold
sinks in
Fearless Leader: giving more texture to the petal
Fearless Leader: purple and red blend, the purple has
a lot of pearl
Fearless Leader: putting purple and pink through their
paces
Fearless Leader: blue and white blend
Fearless Leader: with white inserts
Fearless Leader: surrounded by white
crysalis7: the shape of the blooms is the same as the
blooms on my plumeria tree in my yard.
twinmom94002: that is particularly kewl, nj
Fearless Leader: James liked this one best
twinmom94002: gmta
Fearless Leader: LOL
Fearless Leader: now these blue ones were sort of ...
hmmm
crysalis7: freaky
Fearless Leader: fantasy flowers
Fearless Leader: the lined one looks like fingerprints
twinmom94002: oh i love the one on my left ....what's
the blend in that one?
Fearless Leader: it's red surrounded by blue then
surrounded by white
Fearless Leader: no blend on the one on the left
twinmom94002: kewl...great effect
Fearless Leader: then I had some leaf experiments that
were sort of hmmm as well
Fearless Leader: see, they are sort of ... hmmmm, but
mixed with some good leaves they could work
twinmom94002: they're exotic
Fearless Leader: hide them in the chaos of the jungle
Fearless Leader: now for leaves
Fearless Leader: so I'm going to take one of these
leaves and put the Lei flowers on it to get this sort
of pendant
Fearless Leader: just roll the leaf over for the cord
Fearless Leader: see how it's made? Really easy
crysalis7: the stacked flowers remind me of bromeliad
blooms, especially with the big, shiny leaves.
Fearless Leader: with the blended rose petals it's
really sweet, ruffle the edges
Fearless Leader: so let's take a 5 minute break here
and we'll get ready to get Lei'd ok?
Elise: LOL ok
crysalis7 left the room
twinmom94002: i'm gonna be afk for a bit; gotta fold
laundry
Katie: I can't stay. Sorry. But thanks for the invite.
crzy4dzny left the room
Fearless Leader: going to save log and post to the
list, brb
Elise: ok
esther_reeves joined the room
esther_reeves: HI just popping in for a minute, got
visitors coming in a mo
Fearless Leader: Howdy Esther
Fearless Leader: just about to do the lei flower trick
Fearless Leader: since I have to make three flowers
I'll get to it...
Fearless Leader: Oh Esther let me show you the flowers
real quick
esther_reeves: preety flowers
esther_reeves: pretty even
Fearless Leader: sorry my neighbor came to the door
Fearless Leader: ok, shall we do a quick roll call
while I do these flowers?
Fearless Leader: NoraJean, San Francisco
Elise: Elise, Missouri
esther_reeves: Esther,coventry,england
JennyP: Jenny P Minnesota
frogger70301: Mitch, LA
Elise: that's beautiful
Fearless Leader: so there it is then
Fearless Leader: four petal lei flowers, chained
together, laid on a leaf
Fearless Leader: for a quick pendant you can make with
your scraps,
Fearless Leader: these large leaves are test pressed
slices
Fearless Leader: for me to see the cane design pressed
out
Fearless Leader: hated to waste them
Fearless Leader: so I'm done
Fearless Leader: LOL
Fearless Leader: so which flower petal would you like
to see made again?

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