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Presents Round Robin 2008

At our July Clay Day we will have the annual Round Robin. There will be several classes simultaneously each one for 1 hour with a 20-minute break until the next round to reorganize and breathe. You can choose as many as 4 classes (one per session), however, it is possible that classes you choose may be full during one session, so be prepared to make a second choice.

Each class is $12 and must be paid prior to Round Robin. Kelly will be available to take money at the meeting on June 10, or you can send money at address below. All classes are first-come, first-served, so register as soon as possible to get the classes you want. Be sure to email your preference to Kelly, so the session that you are interested is not cancelled due to low interest.

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Eyeball Mold for Doll Making

Sharon Cariola

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"Everything's Coming Up Roses"

Victoria Hepfner

I have tried many different methods to sculpt doll eyes with only limited success. This new technique utilizes a mold that you will learn to create to meet your unique needs. You can easily have an unlimited supply of eyeballs for your dolls or sculptures in any size you choose. You will make your own custom mold to create "half" eye balls. These special shapes require less pressure to place into the eye sockets. I have found this causes less distortion of the doll’s head. The result is a perfectly smooth, hard, rounded surface in the correct size, ready for placement.

Learn to create a clay rose by building it petal by petal from one caned element.

You can then use the roses as surface treatments or as 3-D sculptural elements. Why not make a beautiful flower bracelet for all of your summer events? Victoria will show you how in this.

Victoria has taken techniques she has learned from Donna Kato and brought them to life. Let her show you how to incorporate these techniques into your artwork. She dazzled them at the fair last year!

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Extruder Magic

Ellie Hitchcock

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Faux Mokume Gane Beads

Ellie Hitchcock

Supplies:

pasta machine

work surface

blade and any of your regular tools that you want to bring

3-4 skinner blend canes

4-2 oz. blocks of clay in contrasting colors that you like

1-2 oz. block of black clay

waxed paper or deli sheets

extruder with at least the square and triangular templates

colored pencils

graph paper (if you don't have any, I'll bring some to share)

#2 pencil

paper towels

Hands-on class

There are lots of ways to create mokume gane. I will do a hands-on workshop with one version that I like and class will create beads made this way. It is very organic. You will need: 4 colors of clay that you like together, a pasta machine, a blade, needle tool for making holes in beads, work surface, texture plates ( bubbles, circles or something similar is best), spray bottle with water and waxed paper.

Hands-on class

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Silk Screening and Sponging

Dotty McMillan

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Learning to Layer Liquid Clay

Dotty McMillan

Techniques for creating luminous surface techniques. Discover the new and easy ways to transform the clay using age-old mediums. See how to make-new age pattern screens in just a few minutes and then use them to create patterns over a beautiful color-sponged surface.

(A variation on Donna Kato's "Layered Effects")

Discover how easy it is to alternate layers of liquid clay, acrylic rubber stamping, gold foil, photo transfers, and much more to a create sheet of transparent clay that has a marvelous depth to it. Kato's reformulated liquid medium is the perfect material to use for this technique. Both opaque and translucent liquid clays can be combined.

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Filigree Caning

Marie Segal

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Mighty Morphing Mammals

Marie Segal

*Filigree canes*- You will make very simple canes. We will be making component pieces that can be made into lots of different design ingredients.
Bring two colors of high contrast clay.
Harder clays work better for this project.
We will be cutting the canes immediately after making them.

You can ask me questions if you have any at Marie@Clayfactory.net

*Mighty Morphing Mammals*- Learn how to make a small sitting bear, learn
also how making small changes to one prototype can make many different
mammals. We will go over as many mammals as we can in the hour. You will
get a way to formulate characters for production work. Bring clay, it can be scrap clay, we are just practicing, not making masterpieces. If you are working with a harder clay have it preconditioned before the class. The picture shows just 3 examples.

You can ask me questions if you have any at Marie@Clayfactory.net

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Potpourri of Wire Work Sampler

Kathy Spignese

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Basic Wire Techniques

Kathy Spignese

You will learn:

Four leaf clover link

Single clover spiral link

Double clover spiral link

Spiral across the face of the bead capture

Zigzag loop bead capture

Indented disk bead capture

Advanced Class - assumes that you know how to make a jump ring and how to do a simple eye pin bead capture and how to put links together and how to make a hook closure.

You will learn:

Eye Pins

Jump Rings

Simple Bead Capture

S Spiral End Cap Bead Capture

Creating a Bail

Simple Closure

These things are all things polymer artist can use with their clay and some wire. Make a simple pendant just by learning how to create a bail to hang it from. If you have a few simple wiring techniques then you don’t have to go out and buy any findings to have a completed project.

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Pattern Canes

Kelly Steindorf

Julie Fund Membership Bonus - Sign up for two to four classes and we will pay for one of them. One free class, how great is that! Just our little way of saying thanks for supporting the Julie Fund!

Click Here to Register

Where do I begin to make that cane? Is it really possible? What kind of clay should I use? Let me show you how to get started. Once you look at the subject you want to make into a cane with the proper eye and figure out where to begin it becomes easier. If you have a certain item that you would like to make into a cane let me show your how. Bring in a drawing or picture. Bring in the color of clay you wish to use. By starting with simple step-by-step techniques you will learn to be able to make complex canes in no time. It does take a little practice, but I will teach you how.

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