This month's meeting had to do with working with clays. The club members expresse
d an interest is using face molds with both air drying clays and the clays that need to be baked. The members brought whatever clays they had along with any tools and molds they had to work with the clays. Before we start our meeting with the topic for the month, we have show & tell. This is when the members share what they've been working on outside of the projects we do specifically for the meeting. Four of the members had projects we wanted to share. First, they was Jeans Angel. This was a project we had for last month's meeting she was still working on at the time. She had completed it and wanted us to see it. Boy! She really turned out lovely. I brought my two ladies with me; AfriCoco and Hibiscus. They were made for a fund raiser which was cancelled at the last minute. I was disappointed because of the work I put into them for the auction but another part of me is glad I get to keep them a little lo
nger and show them to the club members in person. Tonya brought some of her cards she hand makes. Photos don't do these cards justice. They are absolutely gorgeous! The members decided one of our future projects will be based on Tonya's cards. That should be pretty interesting.
Jean is holding up one of the cards for the members to see. To get a better view of the cards; go to the link at the side bar. Last but not least for the show & tell portion of the meeting is Debra's 3d quilt piece. What can I say about this piece but absolutely gorgeous. Debra's does beautiful work. Tonya is holding up the panel for all of us to see.
Now for the meeting project. As I mentioned earlier, we worked with clay for this meeting. Most of what we did is with molds. What we learned was how to prep a mold before inserting the clay. Debra explained the preparation of using talcom powder in the mold for the release of the clay to be easier. What she also explained is how important it is to make a point at one end of the clay to be sure the clay gets into the nose portion of the mold when making faces. Tonya demonstrated had to use the pearlex powders to add to the clay for the metallic look which can be done before or after the clay is baked
. Deseria brought in a silicone mold for us to see. It was a mold use more for freehand sculpting with clay, but gave you a premade shape and starting point.
We were then shown by Debra how to go about making clay hands without using a mold. She explained using an armature which would help prevent the fingers from breaking easily and to put the clay on the armature piece by piece slowly "building" a hand. 
Today's meeting was very informative and I'm sure some of us will be incorporating what we learned today into our dollmaking. Here are some of the faces and hands made from molds. 
d an interest is using face molds with both air drying clays and the clays that need to be baked. The members brought whatever clays they had along with any tools and molds they had to work with the clays. Before we start our meeting with the topic for the month, we have show & tell. This is when the members share what they've been working on outside of the projects we do specifically for the meeting. Four of the members had projects we wanted to share. First, they was Jeans Angel. This was a project we had for last month's meeting she was still working on at the time. She had completed it and wanted us to see it. Boy! She really turned out lovely. I brought my two ladies with me; AfriCoco and Hibiscus. They were made for a fund raiser which was cancelled at the last minute. I was disappointed because of the work I put into them for the auction but another part of me is glad I get to keep them a little lo
nger and show them to the club members in person. Tonya brought some of her cards she hand makes. Photos don't do these cards justice. They are absolutely gorgeous! The members decided one of our future projects will be based on Tonya's cards. That should be pretty interesting.
Jean is holding up one of the cards for the members to see. To get a better view of the cards; go to the link at the side bar. Last but not least for the show & tell portion of the meeting is Debra's 3d quilt piece. What can I say about this piece but absolutely gorgeous. Debra's does beautiful work. Tonya is holding up the panel for all of us to see.
Now for the meeting project. As I mentioned earlier, we worked with clay for this meeting. Most of what we did is with molds. What we learned was how to prep a mold before inserting the clay. Debra explained the preparation of using talcom powder in the mold for the release of the clay to be easier. What she also explained is how important it is to make a point at one end of the clay to be sure the clay gets into the nose portion of the mold when making faces. Tonya demonstrated had to use the pearlex powders to add to the clay for the metallic look which can be done before or after the clay is baked
. Deseria brought in a silicone mold for us to see. It was a mold use more for freehand sculpting with clay, but gave you a premade shape and starting point.
We were then shown by Debra how to go about making clay hands without using a mold. She explained using an armature which would help prevent the fingers from breaking easily and to put the clay on the armature piece by piece slowly "building" a hand. 
Today's meeting was very informative and I'm sure some of us will be incorporating what we learned today into our dollmaking. Here are some of the faces and hands made from molds. 
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