Meeting of the London Polymer Clay Group

29 November 2009

Our  November 29th clay day was held in a smaller room at the London Bubble Theatre as our usual room upstairs was being used for panto rehearsals.  Although it was so near to Christmas 12 people took time away from doing their Christmas shopping to join us.  We had a festive theme for each of our demos and had a guest visitor, Mr Robin Elsey, who has been working with polymer clay and metallic foils.

 

Sue Margetts made the journey from Manchester to join us again.  A warm welcome to our newest member, Julie Pankhurst.   Julie has only been working with polymer clay for a few weeks but see how quickly she is progressing! "Christmas Decorations" by Julie Pankhurst

The 'show and tell' table was full with a variety of Christmas themed creations and several people had brought their new name tags made at the previous clay day in September.

Susan Rimmer kicked off the day with a demo on decorating Christmas tree baubles.  She had bought inexpensive glass baubles and decorated them with snakes of polymer clay giving these simple baubles a chic new look.

 

"Christmas Baubles" by Susan Rimmer		"Glass trumpets" by Susan Rimmer

 

Robin Elsey discussed the difficulty of applying metallic graphic decorations onto spherical and more generally curved surfaces. He has been experimenting with this complex problem, using Caslon's Foilex, a product that is virtually identical to Lisa Pavelka's foils. For more information, contact Robin at robin.elsey at  btinternet.com

After a tea break I demo'ed making Christmas tree stars with mica polymer clay using rubber stamps and mica shift techniques. "Stars", by Carol Blackburn

In the afternoon Clare Mcknight showed us how she made a translucent polymer clay stained glass window for her nativity scene wall plaque.  She began by making lots of bull's eye canes which she formed into a kaleidoscope cane. Clare at work!