New Mexico’s Gael Keyes (@keyesgael) focused on bugs at last year’s Clayathon. This year she’s added outrageous fish and birds to her repertoire of wildlife.
Gael developed her own cane style that she pattern-matches in the Natasha bead way (here’s a quick tutorial) to create feathers, fins, and wings.
During the holidays she turns to her own brands of angels that you can see on Facebook.
Pam hunter ,
These are lovely
Jane Olson-Phillips ,
Good luck with your recovery. I took classes with you years ago.
gael keyes ,
This cane tutorial is not at all the cane I make to find these pattern-matches. I have learned to use more refined materials and control the cane rather than just scrunching up old bits and pieces and twisting many times. I just didn’t want folks to get frustrated thinking I was using this method. Thanks for sharing my birds. I had fun sharing them at the Clayathon this year. We missed you, Cynthia, but you are doing important work taking care of folks.
Linda ,
Beautiful work! Could you tell me what you use to draw black lines? Perfect distinct work. Thanks. Do you bake before or after adding lines. Linda
gael keyes ,
I indented a small crevice line with etch and pearl tool and then filled in with very small extruded thin black tubular line of black clay. Hope this helps.