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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Death of a cocky, birth of a flamingo!

Well after applying myself to making some lovely pink feather murrini (and some white with yellow for sulfur crested cockatoo's I will use later) I spent quite a lot of time making a very busy and quite large Pink Major Mitchell cockatoo bead......... it broke!!!! I think it was a combination of working a bit too large, being obsessed with the small details and not keeping the whole thing evenly warm..... and using one of my old mandrels that had the cheap crappy bead release on it (kept for making spacers ONLY).
After feeling "in my waters" that there could be issues with the cockatoo, one of which was just too much detail and very busy looking even before it went into the kiln, I thought I might make something else that required pink feathers........ a flamingo! I really slapped this one together, but yet, the kiln gods were pleased and this is what came out!!!!

4 comments:

  1. Nat My Dear,
    You just get better day by day, this one is brilliant! Keep up the great artistic energy.
    Tony

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  2. Yet another amazing bead from you Nat. I am loving your series of birds. Glad to see this fella didn't break as he is adorable!

    Karyn

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  3. Hey Nat - will you be making any more or listing any of your cockatoo or flamingo beads on Etsy or are these one offs?

    Karyn

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