6-Day Intricate Kaleidoscope Cane Pendant Intensive

Previously full - now one new opening!

Have fun developing your personal color palette and style while learning Carols unique approach to kaleidoscope design and pendant  construction.  Topics will include:

• Selecting a color palette you love for your master cane

• Color mixing to achieve color harmony and strong value contrast within your selected palette

• Ways to modify/control your clay for better caning results

• Applying a painterly approach to component cane design (using new and old Skinner Blend techniques)

• Component cane types, ranging from simple to detailed, and how to construct them (level of difficulty and types of canes will depend upon interest and experience of participants)

• Strategies for complex cane design (how to use different cane types to create rhythm, balance, emphasis, contrast and flow in the master cane)

• Constructing and reducing the master cane.

• Slicing the cane with the “Simmons Slicer”

• Information on how to store/transport/handle the slices.

• Making and using angle templates

• Combining sections of slices to produce a wide variety of beautiful, unique but coordinated  designs