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Rhiannon Galadriel Stone

Born January 24, 2003

My Fourth Grand Child and First Grand Daughter!! She seems to be happy to be here. Four days old and smiling already. 

2003- January Highlights: Chiaroscuro - Working in highlights and shading through blends. Hand blending - we don't need no stinking pasta press to blend colors. Mushroom Preview. Orchids. Tropical Fruit: Banana, avocado, papaya, guava. Rhubarb and an orchid made from Rhubarb cane. Peanut Butter and Jelly Jewelry and playing with our mini food to make a face. 

January 1, 2003: Doing Animal Heads Short Order.

Seeking the Unicorn through the Horse.

Seeking the Horse 2.

Mini Food Review: Turkey Sandwich, Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich, Romaine Lettuce. 

Three Horses Heads CherylH found. 

Horse Head Anatomy

Mini Food Preview for the next Demo

January 14, 2003 WebCam Demo. Doing Orchids with scrap clay. Some imitation orchids and some inspired by the real flower. 

January 14, 2003: Denise saved this log of making the imitation orchid with Papaya Cane. To match the screen shots. 

Doing an Orchid with Papaya Cane, 84 pictures shot by Denise. Thank you honey for all your hard work.  05/16/08 on photo gallery pages.

Chiaroscuro Preview: The top tubes, with the dragon's eyeball are just silver. The lower tubes have highlight and shadow that were blended in. 

I saved these logs 

 2) up to making the gold

 3) making the gold and comparing to silver

 4) The Green, Green-Yellow and Pearl, low contrast light and shadow, leaf press.

Mitch caught these screen shots of CherylH doing a leaf cane. Three blends, dark green to yellow green, yellow green to pearl, dark green to black. Fan folded, stacked and chevron flipped. Then pressed into action in a circle. 24 pictures.

 5) The pressing of the light green.

 6) Doing it again with three blends, black to dark green, dark green to light green, light green to pearl. Pressing leaves and comparing. 

7) Gold leaf press to the end of the all day demo.

1- January 27, 2003, Chiaroscuro Review

2- January 27, 2003, Chiaroscuro Review

Screen Shots

Kathy, Eva and Denise  caught these screen shots of doing the blends and fan fold for working with light and shadow. 119 pictures

Now on their new photo gallery page.

One of the difficulties with making mini bananas is getting that green seam right on under ripe bananas. Using the Natasha cut we can do it Easy Breezy. 

The Rhubarb Orchid

The Orchid Group Page

Peanut Butter and Jelly Jewelry  There was an emergency. The immediate need for "decorative bits" on a Peanut Butter Theme to be received by Friday. These are the Peanut Butter and Jelly Jewelry and they were made in a late night frenzy. From email "Help!" to finished items under 12 hours.  After getting these in the post I'll be back to share 40 pictures of the process. 

This is a Rhubarb experiment. It's not the "Prime Time" effort but it's going in the direction that will yield a better Rhubarb. The basic technique is there though. Details with the enlarged pictures. 

Papaya: This is the start of tropical fruits and vegetables. I'm going to be doing some Mexican mini food because being Californian I'm ex post facto Mexican. I thought Papaya is a good tropical fruit to start with. 

Guava

1- January 29, 2003: Natasha Log to Pinch Pot in Minutes

2- January 29, 2003: Natasha Log to Pinch Pot in Minutes

3- January 29, 2003: Natasha Log to Pinch Pot in Minutes

1- January 30, 2003: Larger Pinch Pots, a review, Denise Saved.

2- January 30, 2003: Larger Pinch Pots, a review, I saved.

It's a bubble pinch pot or I'm a duck

Taking a pinch pot and closing it up totally so there's air trapped inside is called a bubble pinch pot. What folks don't realize is they can then take this bubble and make anything they want. So I made a duck. It's a hollow duck. That means that I don't use up clay to fill a space, I use air. But then again a lot of folks say I'm full of hot air.

Thank you Mitch for capturing these shots.