02 Plumage
You already have vein or eye. Today you make the other one, reduce both, and overlay them the way the statement ring is built: thin slices, points out, black still showing.
Done looks like
- A small slice board: monarch cells and lime-yellow eyes on the same tile.
- One overlay cluster on a black disc (5–9 slices, not a pile).
- Sister logic started: one clean disc face + one noisy cluster.
Clock
- 0:00 — Recap 01 in fifteen minutes, or skip if yesterday. Put finished rings on the table again.
- 0:20 — Build the track you did not make in 01. Keep it small.
- 1:20 — Optional third: a teal/bronze hairline in the wrap only — peacock sheen, not a new bird. No fourth color story.
- 2:00 — Light reduction. Distortion talk: what stretching does to an oval eye.
- 3:00 — Lunch. Oven preheat. Name on tiles.
- 3:20 — Slice both canes thin. Veneer a scrap black sheet if a cane is too short to overlay.
- 3:50 — Overlay cluster: black base disc, mix eye slices and cell slices, leave field. Do not glue them into a ball.
- 4:20 — Slice board for the host photo. Bake samples.
- 4:50 — Photograph the boards. That is the class picture.
Overlay rules (this is the jewelry)
| Rule | Why |
|---|---|
| Points outward, like scales | Reads as wing / petal, not a sandwich |
| Mix tracks on one disc | Her ring is lime eyes and monarch, not one motif |
| Black must still show | Without field it becomes a fruit tart |
| 5–9 slices | More is a lump. The disc ring is the quiet sister. |
| Thin slices | Thick plugs will not layer |
If your 01 cane died
Cut a window, restack, or pull a strip of demo cane from the instructor tray. You still overlay. You do not spend the afternoon rebuilding a loaf from zero unless there is time after the cluster is on the tile.