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| Barb Alexander & Nancy Quinn |
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| Clang Clang Clang All Aboard |
I am sorry there was no blog post last weekend but I
was enjoying myself at our Guild biennial retreat. Time seems to fly quickly at
three day retreats such as this. Aside from our regular Guild members there
were five from the Van Isle Guild and three from the Northwest Polymer Clay
Guild south of the border in Seattle, Washington.
A fun start to the weekend as we boarded the “Poly
Trolly” for the forty minute ride to Deep Cove and our opening reception for
Horizons.
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| Carolyn Good's Demo and Bargello Samples |
Our Horizons instructors were Joan Tayler, who taught a version of
the popular Japanese Inro. Ellen
Kocher taught Manic Mokume and Carolyn
Good taught her version of Bargello, giving us a choice of veneer to apply
to our Inros. Olga Osnach taught a couple
of face sculpture classes to apply to hand made art dolls and Jem Redlich taught
a unique approach to die formed bowls. All this in three days so you can
imagine we were kept busy but also had loads of fun and laughs.
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| At Olga's Demo |
So sad that the Horizons Retreat is over for another
two years but now it is time to get to work on all those great techniques we
have learned.
