Layers and Layers of Slices and Slices

So, this is that very special week after the latest issue of The Polymer Arts comes out where I share some of the things that we couldn’t squeeze into the packed issue we just sent out. We’ll chat a bit more about some of the contributors and their art work, as well as add some depth to the stories and concepts you’ll be reading about if you bought the issue (and if you don’t have it or don’t have it coming, you can get your copy on our website.)

For this fall 2014 issue, Deb Hart wrote what is probably the most ambitious article we’ve published to date. “Caning by Numbers: Complex Cane Design”  has to do with canes and math. It’s rather intense, but we are already receiving some rave reports from readers who are just so excited to have a controllable way to measure and create precise complex canes.

The one thing we couldn’t do in this particular article was include more of Deb’s work so you could see her range beyond the owl cane that was used as the example for the concepts she teaches.

Here is one amazing bracelet Deb created with a variety of brilliant complex cane images embedded in layers of translucent clay. I am not a very accomplished caning clayer, so I won’t pretend I know all that went into this, but what I do know is that the layering gives it an ethereal quality that is rather mesmerizing, not to mention how lost one might get just trying to take in all the detail.

You can check out even more of Deb’s canes and other art work on her Flickr pages, her blog, her Etsy shop and her website. (Does she stay busy, or what?)

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