Reminder: Sign up for Doreen Kassel's Class

[Patty Pickup]

If you are planning on signing up for either of these classes and have not yet done so, please sign up (or at least let me know).  I will soon be sending out invitations to the classes to other local guilds.   Thanks.

 

 

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Philadelphia Area Polymer Clay Guild (PAPGC) has classes coming up in both March and April.

Both classes are at:

Hillman Apartments

22 South 22nd Street (off Market)

Philadelphia, PA

You have to join our Guild to take classes but membership is only $40 per year.  Each class is one day.  Membership in the Philadelphia Guild entitles you to attend the meeting the day after the class (Sunday) where the artist will be a guest of the Guild. You can sign up and pay for these classes and membership at www.papcg.org.  Please send any questions you may have to pa...@comcast.net

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. My 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!

$95

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Organic Sea Sculpture Workshop
 Jana Roberts Benzon
Jana will be a guest artist on Sunday, April 15

Join Jana for two days spent ‘going with the flow’ as we learn to create ethereal, magical “Organic Sculpture” pieces,  with their delicate black ‘outlining’ – this eye-catching, mesmerizing feature helps give these creations their distinguishing look.  This workshop has a wonderful mix of technical instruction and ‘free-form’ time; we’ll learn how to create glittering Sea Shell beads, incorporating many of the basic skills for creating Organics with a beautiful, sparkling exterior.  We’ll also learn to create a Sea Sculpture Brooch with its rough, crustacean-like exterior, and then the Seahorse Pendant with the beautiful (and mystifying!) “Netting” technique that adorns its outer shell.   If time, we’ll also learn how to make a “Crumpled Brooch”, one of Jana’s favorites.  You’ll learn the basics of Organics, several interesting shapes and designs, along with several new surface techniques in this workshop…

This Master Workshop is full of free-form fun, relaxed “in the zone” creating time, and also filled with so much new and innovative polymer information – you’ll leave feeling like your head is going to explode – in a good (organic)way!! 

$90