Riverpoet Design

I will be teaching my 8 from 1 Intensive Flower Cane Workshop at The Bead House in Bristol, Rhode Island.  The class will be held at the Bead House Annex on October 27 & 28, 2007 starting at 10am each day.  This workshop has gotten great reviews from people who are rank beginners all the way to people who have reached the pinnacle in the polymer clay world. 

A little more about the class:

In this intensive caning workshop you’ll learn to make eight different flower canes from ONE skinner blend. You’ll make realistic-looking rose and daisy canes, tiny accent flowers, flowers with spots, variegation stripes, “folded petals” and several other designs.
This class teaches the fundamentals of caning and skinner blend manipulation. Learn to tint or “shift” the color of your blends, choose the best translucent clay for “caulking” the canes, fast and easy cane reduction with very little waste, and cutting thin slices.
At the end of class, students can swap pieces of their canes so they can leave with a whole bouquet of flowers.  (Note: we can take some time in this class to arrange the cane slices into tiles or beads, but the class is mainly focused on making the canes, rather than using them.  Not all 8 canes will be completely caulked and reduced in class…there is much repetition in the process, and in order to teach as many caning techniques as possible, the repetitive steps are left for after class time.)
To register or learn more about this class please visit www.thebeadhouse.com/Lynne.html  

Ever wish you could make just one cane and then change its color however you wish to suit any color theme?  I am teaching a new class in Baltimore August 4-5, 2007 that shows just that! I will be returning to Crafter’s Cafe and seeing Sue and the gang, and teaching my newest workshop called “Caning in Monochrome.” It focuses on the concept of value, featuring all black and white canes that are then tinted for a really beautiful hand-colored photo look. If you notice, the purple flowers in the round pendant and the bluish ones in the shield-shaped one are the same cane, but colored differently. Same thing with the small yellow and pink flowers.  Of course, you could leave them black and white as well for a strikingly different look as well.

Although this class sticks with my floral theme, it is a totally new concept in caning and surface design that allows you to use the same canes in different color themes, and works great with geometrics and other types of canes as well.  Click the photo for a larger view.

Click here for the materials list for the class.

I will be teaching my 8 From 1: Intensive Flower Caning Workshop with the Orlando Area Polymer Clay Guild on June 9-10. There are a few spots left, so if you would like to attend please contact me through the contact form, or Jeanne who is coordinating the class for the OAPCG. The cost of the class is $130 including the materials fee. The above photo shows the canes Jenny Patterson made in my class earlier this month in Minnesota. I can’t wait to see how she uses them in the beautiful Quilted in Clay pieces!

CLICK HERE FOR THE SUPPLIES LIST FOR THE CLASS