SATURDAY CHRISTMAS BRUNCH

Around the table left to right are Nancy, Cathy, Joan, Lawrence, Nettonya and Jem

Nancy's Harvey Wallbanger Cake - a work of art in itself.

 We had an ornament swap and a few of the ornaments are to the left.
Clockwise Lawrence's Poinsettia, Nancy's Moose Man, Olga's ornament and Cathy Gilbert's Tree Ornament.

 Clockwise top Olga's ornament, April's Santa Ornament, Joan's Bird, Lawrence's Poinsettia, Cathy's Tree, Nancy's Moose Man, Jem's Heart Ornament. Centre top is Ellen's and below it is Nettonya's ornament

We also had a challenge initiated by Ellen. She gave each of us a battery operated candle at our last meetng to create a "lumiere" for the Christmas Brunch.
Top left is Ellen's lumiere, Jem's in one of her beautiful polymer vessels, Joan's birds and Lawrence's liquid polymer votive.











It was a fun day with lots of laughs, especially Jem's great idea for the ornament gift exchange. Also thanks to Ellen for the "Lumiere" challenge. It is unfortunate that more did not take up the challenge.
Maybe we should do this mid-year as well, just before we break for the summer holiday. A beach party/pic-nik/bar-b-q could be in order.
Thanks to Cathy Gilbert, a member of our Guild as well as the North West Polymer Clay  Guild, for making the trip north to join us for the day. Some of you may remember Cathy from our first Horizons Retreat in 2009. We got some amazing photos of her polymer clay work and hope to feature some of them later in the week....so stay tuned and don't forget to comment so we know somebody out there is watching ;-)

OLGA OSNATCH

Sorry folks but this is not one of our new members. This is the face of one of the very talented Olga Osnatch figures. Olga will be doing a demo at our Horizons 2013 Retreat

As the say “a picture is worth a thousand words” so enjoy a few photos of this very talented polymer clay artist and be sure to visit her Etsy site . Below is one of her ornaments

 

Photo by Mark Brett of Western News

Olga at a Penticton show adjusting some of her ornaments.

 Tomorrow we will publish a few uncensored photos of our Christmas Brunch held at Jem Mercer Redlich’s beautiful home in Richmond.

Bargello In Clay

Bargello Stitching in Clay - Instructor  Carolyn Good

Bargello is a style of embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a mathematical pattern to create motifs. You will learn how to imitate this technique in polymer clay and create several Bargello styles as a veneer and then apply them in different ways.

To see more of Carolyn's Bargello work in black and white take a look here.

For inspiration it is also interesting to look at cloth quilts.

Carolyn will be giving a two hour demonstration of this technique at HORIZONS 2013.This time will be split in two so there will be time to blend colours.

Stay tuned for more information on this and other classes we will be having available at HORIZONS 2013. 

 

A Fun Day on Saturday

Ellen's faces and molds(top)

Nettonya’s faces and molds bottom

FACES was the theme of our November meeting held on Saturday the 12^th. Hosted by the talented Ellen Kocher, assisted by Nettonya Ryane, we played with sculpting faces, using face molds and their applications. Olga showed us some of her latest sculpts. A fun time was had by all who attended and played with clay.

Nettonya’s Lady with Headdress

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Olga’s tortoises racing with the hare.

Ellen Kocher’s plant cuff.