Apr 17
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In advance of his annual spring shearing, BJ and his friend Brett had some fun with BJs otherwise full head of hair. Why dread the approach of maturity and its attendant hair loss? Why not embrace it? Celebrate it?
Brett did a masterful job of creating for BJ a faux comb-over. Could they popularize this look?
While I found the concept sidesplittingly funny, I’m not so sure Blair was as amused.
Apr 3
After a week in Seattle learning color and playing with fellow artists, I’ve jumped back into my polymer work at home. The picture at left shows me inlaying extruded polymer canes into a wide-lipped walnut bowl that Blair turned. This is the same pattern I used in a smaller walnut bowl. It’s a much more dynamic presentation in the wider 1 1/2" groove.
The other photo shows the beginning of a "quilted" inlay for a cherry bowl. I calculate the amount of surface area that will be covered by polymer and then make a sheet of pattern that will be sliced and inlaid. This particular bowl has 3 grooves (what were we thinking) and I’m not sure what I’ll put in each of the grooves.
