A cane like this one from Israel’s Ronit Golan mimics a fabric print. All the patterns are surrounded by the same background color so that the elements can be combined into one larger unified design.
This kind of big idea/small pattern cane is becoming popular and it’s on my shortlist of canes to try.
See it from other angles on Ronit’s Etsy shop and follow more of the steps on her Facebook.
Forgive the pun. It was just too easy to smile and wince and admire this ambitious and detailed cane from Israel’s Edith Fischer Katz.
On her Instagram, she has compiled several in-process shots that document how she built the components for this large complex cane.
Edith uses these components in sculptures that are often edgy and alarming. See how she used an earlier crow cane here. Who knows what plans she’s hatching for the fly?
Spain’s ZaZu shares her basic cane in a 15-second tutorial that’s hard to resist.
Her design looks like stitching and she turns it into all sorts of trendy geometrically shaped earrings and pendants in a wide variety of colors.
While the designs aren’t complex, they’re rich with panache and style. Here’s ZaZu on Facebook.
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.
Your reflexes may make you flinch but the colors will make you look twice at this brooch from Poland’s Anna Nel.
The snake is covered with slices of a mosaic-like cane in stunning blues, rusts, gold, and white. Its head is covered with a slice that’s matched in a Natasha bead style.
It’s menacing in the most beautifully alluring way.
Some days, the trusty bullseye cane really hits the spot. Take these earrings from Australia’s Kate Lee Foley.
Nothing pretentious or complicated about these swingy cutouts. The yellow background picks up one of the cane colors. Kate calls her earrings “…a little Gustave Klimt.”
Stuck for an idea? Try a bullseye.
Let’s close a sunny week with a sunny brooch from Canary Islands’ Pilar Rodríguez Domínguez (Amatista). I snagged this from her Instagram a little while ago and kept returning for another look.
That’s a sure sign that there’s something interesting going on. The canes (available on Etsy) have a stained-glass quality about them. There’s a sensual, sinewy feel too.
It takes a moment for all the blends and colors to register. It must be the fine dark line between elements that makes these bright colors read so well.
Figuring out what makes a piece of art grab us is part of what we’ll be looking at over at StudioMojo this weekend. You’d be surprised what you can learn by taking the time for a closer look. Join us.
Israel’s Edith Fischer Katz’ crow cane started at about 6″ in diameter. On Instagram, you can follow her as she builds the crow and then surrounds it with shadow and background.
She fearlessly reduces the plate-size cane. Edith cut a thick slice at about this size and sculpted a 3D crow out of the slice.
What will she do with her murder of crows? (Yes, it’s a murder of crows.) We’ll have to follow her Instagram to see where this goes.
Edith usually sculpts in clay as you can see in her Facebook photos of small figures. This cane is an interesting departure.
Could this be the year that we actually get a polymer-covered egg made? No April-fooling!
Germany’s Kerstin Rupprecht has already filled her basket. Take a look at them on Instagram.
Germany’s Monika Busch (Efmoni) tells us that, ” I like to be inspired by artists like Mucha, Hundertwasser, Monet, and Klimt. The luminosity of colors and strong contrasts fascinate me.”
But you already sensed that, right?
Monika makes big hole beads and buttons, many of them a variation on the Bettina Welker cane into which Monika injects great colors that wake up your Monday.
