Upcoming Workshop

Hello everyone,

It's time for a quick and easy vote. We are hoping to get either Dan Cormier to do the "Relief beyond Belief" workshop or Jeffery Lloyd Dever to do one in the fall of 2010. Below are examples of both these artist's works.

Dan Cormier:

http://www.dancormier.ca/DanCormier/ReliefBeyondBelief.html

Jeffery Lloyd Dever:

http://www.functionart.com/AM/Artists/DeverJ/DeverJinventory.html

Please choose who you would prefer to see at the right of the page and we will try to arrange it.
Thanks, Janice

Cynthia's BOH workshop Aug /09

Cynthia taught an amazing BOH workshop last month. She showed us how to top the bottles with her phenomenal hats and she supplied us all with well written instructions too. She made it look so easy but in reality the hats are quite challenging (at least they were for me) but definately well worth the effort!
Thanks for taking the time to prepare such a great workshop, we know it wasn't easy for you considering that you had just arrived back home shortly before.

 

 

Another great collection of BOH this month. The "monsters" are from Sandy W's great imagination and mozst of the "little people" are from Sandy's mom Janie who never ceases to amaze us with her talent! Thanks foe all of your hard work.

 

 

Fancy Hats

Here are some photos of my fancy hats.









At our next meeting we are going to make Bottles of Hope and I will show you how I make my fancy hats. These have been very popular with patients and the nurses have requested more.
Supplies:
Normal clay kit
For this project you need firm clays, either Kato or well-leached Premo.

Clay in colors suitable for hats and ribbon trim:
-for a straw hat, use Premo Ecru or a mix of Kato (4 parts white, 2 parts brown, 1.5 parts yellow)
-black is good if using bright feathers for decoration
Clay in colors of your choice to cover the bottle. Contrasting colors for polka dots.
Bottles , preferably Botox bottles
Set of small Kemper circle cutters. We use several of them.
Set of Circle cutters: 1/2", 3/4", 7/8", 1", 1 and 1/4", 2", 2 and 1/4 (The Ateco cutters have the sizes we need)
Set of Oval cutters in case we want to make cowboy hats
Index cards

Decorations for hats:
-feathers (Michaels sells packages of brightly colored feathers with dots. They are on the "craft supplies" aisle. You can also use natural colored feathers. You want the smallest sizes)
-Tiny little fabric flowers. Michaels has them in the wedding area, I think. My dollar store has "mini craft roses".
I will have some feathers and flowers to share.
-any other hat decorations you would like. Actual ribbon or trim, for example.

Something to texture the hat - I will bring some netting to share

If you have the wooden block with hole in it that I gave out when we did the flower BOHs, bring it. Helpful but not required.

I use a mould to make the base for my hats but it is not required. However, if you have some 2-part moulding material, bring it and you can make a mould from the big marble I used. It's a perfect size. I also have little cowboy hats and you can make a mould of one of them.

Cynthia

Striped Tube Bead Workshop

 

 

 

 

Laurie taught us a wonderful workshop on making striped tube beads. She got the idea from Donna Kato's last book (which, by the way, Laurie contributed an article on colour theory to)
Way to go Laurie!

Laurie taught Donna Kato swirly beads

Hi All,

This last weekend Laurie taught us how to make swirly beads. The technique is from Donna Kato's Millefiore book. It's much easier than it looks.

Here are the photos of the bead that I made in class. I didn't mark mine to chop into equal lengths since I wasn't sure what I was going to do with mine. You don't see the glow in the dark clay that I added as part of the bead.

Karen and Janice weren't able to attend so today I taught them the technique. Laurie strongly suggested not worrying about colour scheme and that the technique is a great way to use up scraps.


So with this one I didn't worry about what I threw together. And yet the three of us oohed and aaahed at the result.


We were making Bottles of Hope today and it occured to me that this technique would make perfect candles. So you can see my first attempt at a cupcake BOH with the candle from the class that Laurie taught.

Wendy will be posting photos of other guild member results.

In the mean time, thanks so much to Laurie for teaching a deceptively simple but versatile technique.

Sandy

Results from May's "I Spy" workshop

 
 
 

Bottles of Hope

 
 
 

Here are a few more BOH. Can you believe that the "little People" were made by a complete newbie to polymer clay! Great work Janie P!
Let's see how many more we can have made for our next meeting on June 28th.