From the daily archives: Saturday, December 1, 2007
Here it is, all put together. There are a few things I’ll probably change for next time but overall, I’m really happy with it. And it turns like butter! (If butter actually turned of course.)
I really can’t capture the look of the images since they’re constantly changing and the dichroic glass [...]
I baked an eyepiece from black clay, then glued that to one end of the PVC pipe. Then I covered the pipe with a layer of clay and smoothed it up over the edges of the eyepiece so there was no seam. I textured the clay and added three sculpted swallows. Once [...]
This kaleidoscope has an acrylic liquid-filled cell. The cell is one of the ones available from PolymerClayProjects and is filled with silicone oil and sealed with epoxy. I also glued a black acrylic circle to the bottom of the object chamber so it would be a sidelit cell with a [...]
I’ve wanted to do a kaleidoscope with a nice, smooth turning end for awhile. After a workshop with Scott Cole, I did some searching for good bearings with a large inner diameter (ID) so I could use some decent sized mirrors. I found some bearings with an outer diameter (OD) of [...]
If you have any interest in color at all, take a look at the two blogs from Maggie Maggio and
Lindly Haunani.
Start with Maggie’s oldest posts to see an absolutely wonderful series on color theory. Lindly even has a post on useful hand stretches when you’ve [...]
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