Sunday 22 May 2016

Kate Church Workshop


I have just returned home from a fabulous, creative week of sculpting with Kate Church at the Blue Moon Winery in Courtenay, British Columbia.  This time around, instead of staying in a motel, six of us rented a beach house on Kye Bay in Comox.  The house and view were beyond words: (here is a view from our deck)  This area of the Bay is a Heron feeding ground and every day at low tide herons can be seen standing in the low water and sand banks staring intently at the water, searching for food.

A view from our living room up to the second floor.


Every morning our resident bald eagle flew over the water and back up to his perch in the pine tree behind the house overlooking the beach.  Need I say more!  The house was perfect and the views unbelievable (my photo does not begin to capture the magic).







Our gazebo and fire pit where we roasted marshmallows,  hot dogs and made smores!
This class of Kate's involved choosing to make an animal figure (raven, horse, or rabbit) in cloth and then adding clay features using polymer clay.  The animal has a wee clay rider on top.

Here are some candid photos of the week with my fellow artists (10 of us in total) learning from the master, Kate Church:

Preemie clay in translucent, white and ecru ready to condition:


 Some wee heads ready to bake:

 Colouring with Panpastels, a new colouring medium to try:



Kate's demo on making a wee hoof for the horse:


This is Kate's raven and rider in progress.


Kate's horse and rider in progress.

A preview of our dolls in progress:



Three bunnies frolicking and waiting for their riders


Ponies in progress
Stay tuned for more photos and close ups of my pieces as I finish them.

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