Doreen Kassel Workshop and Guest Artist

Vintage Style Small Sculpture & Ornament Workshop
with Doreen Kassel
Saturday, March 17, 2012
Doreen will be a guest artist on Sunday, March 18

This workshop will focus on creating fun, offbeat ornaments & small sculpture. Your imagination will run wild creating creatures & beasts from reference & expanding from there, or pull ideas from your own imagination!  We’ll work sculpturally with lots of texture, scoring & low relief, achieving high & low recesses. An initial coat of dark brown oil paint collects in these recesses  &  is gently rubbed off. After that first coat of is rubbed off, different colors of oil paints are applied, using the same technique of painting & rubbing. When rubbed, the colors reveal themselves to be subtle & beautiful. Every crack & fold adds to the charm, giving the piece a lovely vintage feel. Happy accidents occur, no great sculptural skills are necessary.  Students are consistently surprised by the work they produce using this fun & forgiving technique.
You’ll spend the workshop creating beautiful vintage style works of art!

If you can’t take the class,  Doreen will be the guest artist at the March 18 meeting.   Members only.

For more information, go to our web site

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger

More Clayathon Pictures

Earlier this week,  I posted about Clayathon and this year’s guest artist Leslie Blackford.   Aside from Leslie’s example bird,   all of  the  pictures in that post show birds Clayathon attendees made under Leslie’s expert tutelage.   I forgot to mention that Leslie also  demonstrated how to  sculpt realistic looking twigs for the birds to perch on.

While everyone watched and enjoyed the demos, some  people worked on  other projects

More Clayathon highlights to follow!

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger

Polymer Clay Class at Potomac Bead Company January 28

Guild member Mary Askew is teaching a class on polymer clay bead making at the Potomac Bead Company  in Phoenixville, PA on January 28, 2012!  They offer other great classes too.  Check the Web site for details.

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email: phoenixville@potomacbeads.com

phone: 610-415-9991

Make Your Own Beads

Learn basic techniques to make your own beads out of polymer clay. This clay is easy to work with and comes in a variety of colors.Colors can also be mixed to make new ones. Best of all, no special equipment is needed to “fire” the clay —      all it takes is a regular oven!January 28th. 10:30 am – 1:30 pm. $35 + materials

The Potomac Bead Company
167 Bridge Street | Phoenixville, PA 19460Potomac Bead Company

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger

South Jersey Clayathon and Leslie Blackford’s Birds

Thanks again to Arlene Groch for coordinating Clayathon and Guild co-president  Patty Pickup for convincing guest artist Leslie Blackford that Clayathon was an event she could not afford to miss.  Leslie’s first workshop was on how to sculpt distinctive, wacky birds.

Here are the wacky birds

Martha Aleo, Deputy Blogger