Paul Tarlow wrote:
Thanks Barbara.
The piece varies between 1/2 and 3/4 inches.
The initial fusing of layers was done on a sheet of 1/8 fiber paper - minus a donut shape. The result was that (when flipped over) it had raised donut shape that covered the entire area where the ripples would be -- that allowed me to have ripples above the surface of the water. I free hand sand blasted the wide donut into a series of ripples.
Let me know if that isn't clear and I'll try it again...
I'm not sure I would do it exactly the same way again. Honestly (and I've gotten this feedback from others as well) the ripples are a bit heavy to have been created by a leaf. Not a biggie, just something to make better next time around in pursuit of realism.
I also made about 30 leaves to get one that was "just right".
Have fun at BECon. I'm actually not attending -- I was invited as a student to exhibit.
- Paul
Your description is as clear as the pure water in a koi pond!
I like your ripples. Perhaps every detail need not be realistic....& in a weird way heightens the EXPERIENCE of the leaf, water, ripples.
I'm sure you considered & discarded this idea, but what about shaping the fiber to create rough ripples. That way, maybe you could reduce the amount of work to blast 'm into shape? I'm sure I'm missing the big picture here... but hey, what the hey, right?
Re: Legacy... are you exhibiting as Bob's student? I loved his preconference class at WGW last year, didn't you? Unfortunately, I haven't been able to explore all I learned from him there (tho I still have the video!). Haven't even MADE a wafer since. I took 3 classes in 2002... and I'm sloooow to absorb & make techniques my own. I guess I took too much & now I have to spend a lot of time digesting it all. Congrats on being in the show. I can't wait to see it.
Best,
BB