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2009 -
FEBRUARY MEETING
MARCY LAMBERSON BUTTERFLY DEMO
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Marcy Lamberson was asked to give a presentation on sculptural beadmaking at
last year's ISGB Gathering. It was so successful she was invited back to
teach. At this year's 2009 Gathering, she will be holding a 2-day
pre-meeting workshop entitled "Sculptural Beadmaking Makes you Smile".
The Southern Flames Board was able to convince Marcy to also teach two workshops
for us and to give the SF membership a sculptural bead demo at the February
Meeting. We were so glad that Fred Fuerst was at the meeting and
sent us these photos.
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Marcy chose to
demo two butterflies so that more members might contribute butterflies
to the Beads of Courage Program. When a child loses the fight with
cancer, a butterfly is added to their Beads of Courage necklace and
given to the parents as a keepsake. She made the purple butterfly
first and then the blue and green spotted one.
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Marcy begins the
butterfly by making a cone shaped bead and flattening
it to form the upper wings. - just like you
would make a heart shaped bead. The bottom wings are made
next by adding dots of glass to the upper wings.
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In this photo
you can see that the dots for the lower wings have been mashed flat.
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Marcy has added
some decoration to the wings and is pulling light green "emergency
stringer"
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The light green
stringer was used to lay down the butterflies body and here Marcy makes
the butterflies head with a yellow rod.
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Last step - Marcy gives the
butterfly a face - eyes, cheeks, some hair and 2 antennae. This
type of whimsical detail is one of the the features that makes Marcy
sculptural work immediately identifiable and uniques.
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The first butterfly is finished and
it is ready to go in the kiln!
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After the first butterfly is stowed in the kiln Marcy
shows the group how to make a butterfly using a different technique.
Here the butterfly body is made first and large dots of glass are added
for the wings. These are mashed.
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Additional dots of color can be
added before the wings are mashed so that they are striped.
Alternatively stripes can be added one at a time after the initial dot
is flattened. As each stripe is added the wing is flattened and
heated again.
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To shape the wings, Marcy heats each
one separately and pulls it to a point using a rod or stringer.
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Decorateve spots are added to the
butterfly body and it is ready for the kiln.
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