I spent this past weekend up near New Haven, CT attending Clay ConneCTion 2006. It’s a weekend jam packed full of demos, challenges, and more and more clay. We had about 70 attendees this year and lots of great demos (I was the demo coordinator this year).
I learned a cool way of reducing canes this year from Jana Roberts Benson which is guaranteed to take out your aggressions. There were demos on micashift, printing with clay, silk screening, photo polymer texture plates, caning, etc, etc.
It was a really great time and I had a blast. I met lots of other polymer clay addicts and saw some wonderful work. I even made a tiny kaleidoscope for the Bottles of Hope Challenge which got an award for Best Use of Internal Space.
But I should have taken off a couple extra days afterwards. I’m exhausted!
Hi Christy-
It was so much fun meeting all the connecticut clayers. You guys did a great job putting the weekend together. Thanks for all your hard work.
P.S. Art Jewelry mag. has accepted my box pins for the gallery section of an upcoming
issue!! Have a great summer. Loretta
What does photopolymer texture plates mean? I am a newbie and I’ve never heard of it .
You probably wouldn’t have unless you’re into Precious Metal Clay. They’re a type of photo-resist material that can be used to make texture plates. The texture plates are then used with clay. Looks interesting – a little involved but I may give it a try sometime