Making a Bird Cane

Thanks to Deb for a great lesson on the bird cane. Most excellent job!! Here is the goldfinch cane she brought to share. Deb's finished cane was about 2" wide and 3 1/2" tall, the whole cane being 2" deep. She provided each member with step by step instructions, a color photo of a finch, plus a drawing on a clear plastic sheet to use as a guide when building the cane from slabs of color.

Here is the same cane, following partial reduction by Kim Keane. Kim used a Barbara McGuire technique, slapping the block onto a cement surface (equally on each face, repeating until the clay moves)

 Watch a video of the reducing process here.