Confident Color/ Tropical Flower Inspirations
Two day workshop with Lindly Haunani
Saturday June 5th and Sunday June 6th, 2010
For registration details please visit the New York City Polymer Clay Guild’s web site here
Make a sumptuous tropical floral arrangement using simple polymer clay canes that can be used as a focal point for a necklace or be worn as a brooch. Several of the most amazing, inspiring joys of nature including torch ginger, birds of paradise, orchids, ferns and palm fronds will provide inspiration.
Lindly will walk you through designing and mixing a cohesive color scheme that includes lights, darks, petals, leaves and appropriate background colors for your cane collages.
Then learn how to construct the blended canes and practice some useful sculpting strategies. Pulling the assemblage together, as a series of wearable color sample brooches will be part of the fun learning experience
Join Lindly Haunani, a nationally recognized colorist for a fun and illuminating weekend workshop. While you may know just what colors you like, exactly how to mix them, using them in harmonious combinations can be challenging. Learn how to add impact to your polymer clay work with increased color confidence. Ask questions, be ready to laugh and increase your color confidence.
This workshop is appropriate for a beginner or as a refresher/expansion course for the more experienced polymer clay artist.
In 1994 I taught a polymer clay workshop at The Florida Craftsmen’s Guild’s annual conference in Jacksonville, Florida and I have fond memories (and several somewhat outrageous stories) of several aspects of that weekend conference (perhaps more later?)… one thing that really stands out in my mind is that the opening ceremonies were held in the Jacksonvile Museum of Art. In addition to the Guild’s annual juried show being on display, there were plexiglass pedestals of the instructor’s work on display throughout the museum- and as I chatted with Paul Soldner- I couldn’t help but notice that my pieces were on display in front of a Rauschenberg painting! I remember pinching myself and thinking “Pay attention, this may the closest you will ever get to being in a museum collection as a living artist.” 
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