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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: Pardo Clay
Pardo “Art Clay”: Cautious Optimism
This post is just a short digression from my experimentation with Premo Mica clays. Last time I was in Hobby Lobby I noticed Pardo’s new “Art Clay” line: 14 basic colors in 2 oz. blocks instead of those ridiculous little … Continue reading