The weekend was filled with mixing colors and building canes. Instead of sitting stunned and overwhelmed on the first day of my next conference, I thought I’d prepare new canes so that I can get in the groove quickly. These canes, built with extruded triangles, are ready and wrapped for traveling next week.
Some artists have a vision of the end product when they begin a design but I simply ride the wave of inspiration and see where it takes me. Here’s how a few of my previous canes were used (1, 2, 3, 4). I wonder where these will end up.
This project also served as Internet detox. I stayed away from the computer all weekend!
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These are gorgeous colorways Cynthia. Thanks so much for sharing with us.
It will be fun to watch them evolve…
Love the triangle patterns. I may have to do my own “thang” there soon. Not today though – just started a wee little church for hubby’s fast-growing village!
You have a LOT of triangles there. All I can think of is how much extruding you had to do! Of late I have to wear vinyl gloves to clay (or my hands crack and get nasty) and cranking even my Makin’s professional extruder rips the gloves right up!
Wonder how many pairs of gloves I’d go through to make all those canes?
ALL of your work is truly AWESOME!!!! I hope to be able to meet you in person someday and share PC ideas. Thank you for your daily inspiration!
I love the patterns! Extruded canes are a lot of fun and I like the easy (or easier) precision that you can get with them if you are doing a geometric pattern. I used extruded clay in 2008 to make some political sunrise pattern beads and was really happy with the results. It saved me a ton of time and my canes looked great. I look forward to seeing how you use these beautiful canes! Thanks for the daily inspiration.
I often wonder how you deal with so much computer time, Cynthia – glad that you gave yourself detox time. Your passel of canes is beautiful, and I can just imagine how theraputic, relaxing and fun a weekend you had creating them..
(oh, and the colors in your canes, which match the colors at PCD, give insight into your favored color palette…perfect for Spring!)
I always use a clamp with my extruder – one with a trigger. Saves my hands =) Beautiful canes – they have such a wonderful southwestern feel to them!
Terrific colors and wowswers I would love to do a clay day with you!
Wow. Every single cane looks like it’s in motion. Incredible energy. It’s a great illustration to show students how to achieve energy and motion on a 2-D plane. Bravo, Cynthia. And thanks for the teaching aid. I’m bringing it to the next class I teach.
beautiful canes! It’s about time you “featured” yourself!!
I’m looking forward to seeing what you are gonna do with those!
I love your color sense!
(And I am glad to hear that someone else works that way.)
These are lovely…bright and colorful without hurting the eyes! I’ll have to do a little reading in Maggie’s and Lindly’s book to help me to understand why these combos appeal to me.
What did we do before we had extruders! I’m only halfway through mucking out but I have to try that.
Hangin ten on the wave of inspiration! How fun is that? Your canes are delightful and I, too, can’t wait to see where the wave takes you. – Marlene Brady
I like that color palette!
Gorgeous colours!! Good strategy for the deer in the headlights syndrome at a conference too!
gera
Love the canes — they are so fun looking. Sometimes winging it can be more exciting and satisfying than having a plan –
I checked the links you have and I love the PC on the wall. I did thay with canes by my front door.
Love the canes. Sometimes I have a vision, sometimes I just fly by the seat of my pants. That’s more interesting.
As always…I love the colors!!!
Such fun spring colors! Way to go Cynthia.
What conference are you heading to?
tejae
Most beautiful and SO appealling!
Wonderful colors. They remind me of my favorite old crayon colors… the ones they retired. I just love the two reddish-wrapped ones. Gorgeous.
love the colours
Oh too cool! The geometric patterns are captivating individually…en masse they are stunning. Love these extruded canes!