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- On Sabbatical
- Last Midwestern Master Cane Workshop.
- My Color Week with Maggie Maggio and Lindly Haunani
- Master Cane Reveals, Master Cane Level 1 Workshop, Parkville, MO 2018
- Update on the Simmons Slicer as of May 2018.
- Floral Dreamscapes in Northern Ireland with Carol Simmons and Maureen Carlson
- Update: Fantasy Flowers and Totems workshop in Franklin, MA.
- 2018 Simmons Master Cane Workshop Now Full
- Floral Dreamscapes Workshop is Coming to Albuquerque!
- How to Make a Pattern for a “Simmons-Skinner” Blend
- How to Prepare for an Intermediate/Advanced Level Caning Workshop With Carol Simmons
- Master Cane Workshop in La Crau, France
- Fantasy Flowers Workshop in the South of France
- 26 Tiny Bowls
- August 2015 Workshops on Vancouver Island
- Return to Europe: Spring 2016
- Old Canes
- Buffing the Tide Pool Bowl
- Spring 2015 Teaching Schedule
- 6-Day Master Cane Workshop in Florida, 2015
- Photographing Polymer on Black
- Creating the Tide Pool Bowl
- Tide Pool Color Mixing Update
- Color Consciousness: Some Thoughts on Choosing Colors for a Project
- November 2013 Update on the Simmons Slicer
- Color Consciousness: Mixing Muted Color Blends
- Autumn Leaves
- Pre-Registration for October, 2014 6-Day Simmons’ Master Cane Workshop Now Open
- Necklace Collaboration Part 2
- Hollow Bead Collaboration
- Tiny Kaleidoscopes
- 2014 European Teaching Tour: What I am Teaching and Where
- Playing Around
- The Value of Intention
- At the Beach (Some pieces from my polymer collection)
- Full Circle (Almost)
- Impressionists’ Garden
- Building a Master Cane: Finishing the Construction
- Building a Master Cane: Adding the Second Section
- Building a Master Cane: Finishing the Design Phase and Starting the Cane
- Building a Master Cane: Component Canes
- Building a Master Cane: First Revision
- Building a Master Cane: Thinking It Through
- What Photoshop Can do for You
- Plans for 2014 Europe Teaching Tour
- Designs like Multicolored Snowflakes: 36 Kaleidoscopes from A Single Master Cane
- Spring, 2013 Teaching Schedule Just Completed
- Pardo Weekend in Iceland
- Registration Now Open: New 6-Day Kaleidoscope Pendant Workshop
- Color Persistence in Pardo Clay after Firing
- Pardo “Art Clay”: Cautious Optimism
- Premo Mica Clays: Experiments with Chatoyence Part I
- Beautiful Bargello
- Tools I Like for Caning
- Mokume Gane in Georgia
- Pendant Cords Part II
- Hold a Hummingbird in Your Hand
- Creating Color Swatches with Photoshop
- Update on the Simmons Slicer as of Dec, 2011
- Questions I Ask Myself about Teaching
- Pendant Cords – Part I
- Pendant Cords – Part I
- Back to Basics!
- Student Master Canes from Shake Rag Alley, 2011
- Sources of Color Inspiration: The Fabric Store
- Workshop Teaser (more to come)
- Goodbye Rainbows
- Triangles to Squares to Veneers
- Color Consciousness: Sorting Scraps
- Premo Zinc Yellow and Cobalt Blue: A New Perspective on Polyform
- Color Consciousness: A Diagram Not to be Missed
- Color Consciousness: Oranges
- Sources of Color Inspiration: Student Work
- Color Consciousness: Purples
- Color Consciousness: Greens
- Color Consciousness: Vibrant Color Blends
- After Easter Eggs
- Tessellated Kaleidoscope Cane Veneers: Not Just for Eggs
- Finding Inspiration on Flickr
- Needlepoint as Color Inspiration
- Buckeye Bash Memories
- Simmons Slicer Status, February 2011
- Blue, Black and White Canes: Advantages of a Limited Palette
- 2nd Workshop Just Added!
- Mixing Premo “Color Keys”
- More Metallic Mokume Gane 2
- Sources of Color Inspiration Part 2
- More Metallic Mokume Gane
- Polyform, You are not Listening!
- Kaleidoscope Design Intensive
- Sources of Color Inspiration Part 1 (of Many)
- Canes as Texture
- Polyform: They Heard Us!
- Polyform: Say it isn’t so!
- Polymer Covered Eggs
- Cane Slicer Update and Thoughts about Teaching
- Experiments with Large Sheets of Metallic Mokume Gane
- 4th Anniversary Show
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Category Archives: Metallic Clay
Premo Mica Clays: Experiments with Chatoyence Part I
I have always loved collecting rocks and minerals. One of my favorite minerals to find is mica. Mica is responsible for the sparkle in granite and many other rocks. It mostly occurs as little tiny flakes but sometimes it occurs … Continue reading →