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These two beads and pendant were made using Dottie McMillan's tutorial on painted mokume gane. The pendant was covered with pieces of a free-form cane made with Premo Translucent With Bleach and very thin slices of black. Pieces of the painted mokume gane were applied to prepared beads and a pendant made exclusively of Premo Translucent With Bleach. All three were sanded, buffed, and varathaned. The depth and glasslike quality are remarkable. One can see deep within these pieces. That's what I most like about the technique.

Thank you, Marcella, for sharing!

This month, I decided to make a test with the technique of last month : mosaïc cane. The pic unfortunately does not show the transparency of the Fimo bright colors but these are translucent (mixture of Fimo 00 with just a little bit of saturated colors). Instead of using neutral colors for the grout, I have chosen Fimo red 29, to reduce the contrast and give the impression that the colors of the "mosaïc tiles" are floating. Little cuts of mosaïc have been smoothed with a brayer, and baked between tiles to enhance the shiny effect (method of Pörrö). Then , the Fimo pieces have been strung on tiger tail with seed beads and genuine gems (not polyclay faux...).

Great work, Chris!

The following heart pin was made by Sue Dial, who based her gorgeous work on Elissa's Chrysanthemum Cane in pcPolyzine's December 2000 issue.