April Demo - Faux Antique Coral Beads

The April KCPCG meeting will be Tuesday, April 12, at Heartland Bead Market in Lenexa, Kansas - our normal meeting spot. Thank you, Carol Hooper, of Heartland Beads!

The April demo by Lynette Fisk will show you how she made the Faux Antique Coral beads that were her 2010 Christmas exchange beads.

This demo is easy to follow along so if you come, bring this stuff to create your own beads that night:

Materials
Clay in red, yellow and/or orange, turquoise, translucent – pre conditioned.
Wire (brass or craft wire – non-shiny is better)
Ink or acrylic paint for antiquing (burnt umber, brown, or black)

Tools
Tile or work surface
Tissue blade
Wire cutter
Chain nose pliers (for twisting wire)
Small bowl or cup for water
Sponge or brush
Paper towel
Needle tools or skewers for roasting beads upon
Flat acrylic square or whatever you use as bicone roller


I’ll bring a handout, hopefully some pictures and the secrets!

Making a Bird Cane

Thanks to Deb for a great lesson on the bird cane. Most excellent job!! Here is the goldfinch cane she brought to share. Deb's finished cane was about 2" wide and 3 1/2" tall, the whole cane being 2" deep. She provided each member with step by step instructions, a color photo of a finch, plus a drawing on a clear plastic sheet to use as a guide when building the cane from slabs of color.

Here is the same cane, following partial reduction by Kim Keane. Kim used a Barbara McGuire technique, slapping the block onto a cement surface (equally on each face, repeating until the clay moves)

 Watch a video of the reducing process here.

Making a Bird Cane

This is one of our quarterly SATURDAY Clay Play Day meetings - May 8 from Noon - 4pm

CHALLENGE ITEM DUE:
Theme: CONTAINER  (Can you think outside the box? Lidless? Sideways? Cover a vase or box? Make a drape bowl on a form? Pinch a pot?)

Deb Williams will be showing us how she makes her incredible birds. This is her Pileated Woodpecker. Below are the colors needed for a goldfinch, which is what we'll be doing on Saturday.

SUPPLY LIST for a goldfinch cane:

Clay: Use a firmer clay, like Premo, Kato, or Fimo Classic:

* 2 blocks zinc yellow (or cadmium yellow)
* 1 block black
* 1 block white
* 1/2 block orange
* 1 block raw sienna for the branch
* Clay for the background:  I mixed colors to come up with a "fern" green for my cane, but Fimo classic has something similar.  You can think about this later if you want.


Tools:

* Pasta machine
* Flexible blade
* Ripple blade (or you can use mine)
* Wax paper

It would be best to have your clay already conditioned and in flat sheets (at the thickest setting) so you don't have to spend time doing this at the meeting.  You'll also need to flatten some black to a #8 (thin) for the details and to outline the bird, but you can wait until the demo to do this. 


Saturday, May 8, 2010
12 noon - 4 pm
Heartland Bead Market
13440 Santa Fe Trail
Lenexa, KS 66215

2010 Program Demo Schedule

2010 demo schedule, revised as of 5/5/2010

• February  
• Feb.13 - Quarterly Clay Play Day - Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm  

• Tiny Flowers - Donna Hess will demo making small, sculptural flowers.
• 4th Saturday Free Play Day
  Sat, Feb 27, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
• March 10 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
• Disc Beads - Robin Young will demo how she made the cool disc beads in the necklace she wore to the January meeting.

•  Free Play Day in March will be on the 3rd Saturday instead
• March 27 - Barbara McGuire Workshop sponsored by Heartland Bead Market
• April 13 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
•  Making a Music Cane - Lynette Fisk - postponed due to illness
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, Apr 24, 12 -4
• May 8 - Quarterly Clay Play Day - Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm   
• Making a Bird Cane - Deb Williams  

• Challenge -  DUE IN SEPTEMBER: Theme: Organic
  Get inspired by nature, and show us what you create!
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, May 22, 12 -4
• June 8 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm 
• Making a Music Cane - Lynette Fisk (Rescheduled)
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, Jun 26, 12 -4 
•  July 13 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
• TBD Demo
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, July 24, 12 -4
• August 14 - Saturday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
• TBD - MariEtta Williams
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, Aug 28, 12 -4
• September 14 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00pm
•  Organic Challenge Item Due
• TBD Demo - Michelle Wineland
• Commitment Signup for November Bead Exchange Color Theme - RED
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, Sept 25, 12 -4
•  October 12 - Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
• TBD Demo by Teri Stettnisch
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - Sat, Oct 23, 12 - 4
  November 13
  Annual Bead Exchange 2010  - Color Theme - RED
  (View 2009 exchanged beads here)
  Election of 2011 officers
  Demo: Flower Cane - Kim Keane 
• December 14 -Tuesday, 6:30 - 8:00pm
• Open -  TBD (Probably a free-play night, since the last 3 years this meeting was snowed out!)
• 4th Saturday FREE PLAY DAY - NONE.
  Would have been Dec. 25!