Scrap Clay Caning

I broke away from the magazine madness for a moment today to relax with some perusing through Pinterest. While everyone else gets sucked into Facebook, artists get inexorably pulled into Pinterest. It can’t be helped. It’s kicks in a kind of visual ADD. Oh, shiny … and colorful … and creative and … oh, how did they do that! Its terrible.

Luckily, the spell is broken and I manage to escape when I see something too cool not to run over and share here on the blog. Today it was yet another way to take scraps and make something amazing with it. This cane component and the intermediate steps to a scrap clay cane below were created by Ronit Golan. And no, this is not scrap canes as in Alice Stroppel’s approach, although the first half of the process isn’t too far off from hers, but just scrap bits and pieces of clay.

The big difference between this and the Stroppel cane is that you can use this approach to create a kaleidoscope cane. Isn’t that cool?

Check out the full tutorial and examples on Ronit’s blog here. Thanks goes out to Karin Ashdown for pinning this from Ronit’s blog for us to discover.