February 2017 Meeting Notes

The February meeting of the Central Mississippi Polymer Clay Guild will be on Saturday, February 18th, at 10:00 a.m. at the Pearl Library, Pearl, Mississippi.This month’s meeting will feature with one of Arlene’s favorite things to do – making canes.  We will build a flower petal cane using a three shade blend and a leaf cane in a complimentary color.  Then she will walk us through sculpting with the petal and leaf canes to decorate a small wooden picture frame. She will also go over how to combine the petal canes to create a flower cane and how to use Play Doh to make the flower cane borderless. 

Supply List - Clay:

Note: For the petal cane we will be making a 3 shade blend so your starting color needs to be a darker color.  Some suggested combinations might be purple/fushia, blue/turquoise, orange/yellow, alizarin crimson/red.  White will be added as the third color.

2 blocks of two coordinating colors (see note above)

3 blocks of white

1 block of yellow

1 block of black

1 block of your favorite shade of green

Other Supplies:

Play Doh or Rose Art Fun Dough – Arlene will have some to share

White glue

Plastic wrap or candy paper (Arlene will have some available)

Wide paint brush – at least ½ inch wide.  1 inch is better.

Extruder will be useful but not mandatory

Heat gun will be useful but not mandatory

Normal clay supplies including tissue blade and ruler

Arlene will provide wooden photo frames for the project.

Reminder:

Bring your usual clay supplies, acrylic rod or brayer, pasta machine, work surface, blade, etc