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Clay ConneCTion ’22

LINE – A Worksheet For Creativity

Some Line Examples

Helen Wyland-Malchow has been teaching the guild design elements at the Zoom guild meetings..
She started with LINE. Download the Worksheet here.  (was sent out with the June NAN).
She went over different elements/attributes of Line.

Take something you love and represent it as LINE and do the exercises on the worksheet. The pictures are examples that Helen showed to explain the different concepts. Play with it and have some fun!

We will share our worksheets at the ConneCTion Challenge Zoom meeting on July 3.
Looking forward to seeing all we do!

"The Horizontal and Vertical Ovals show the Contrast between the Straight Static Lines and the Movement at the Ends Created by the Curvilinear Lines" ~Helen

"When you feel the urge to mindlessly scroll through Facebook, take out the worksheet and play with the exercises" ~ Carole

Virtual Meetings

Virtual Meetings until Further Notice

We will be hosting our guild meetings via Zoom until further notice.
The link, meeting ID, and password will be in the newsletter that will be emailed out a few days prior to the meeting.
Hope to see you there!

And (for those like me who are a little vain) here is a zoom youtube link from Libby that has good lighting tips: https://youtube/ACNGhPKnmok 

Also another tip - (I'm SO Vain!!!!...) You can go to Zoom -> Preferences -> Video and in "My Video you can check "Touch up my appearance" which softens up everything 😉

Weekend of Clay March 14 & 15, 2020

Class Pictures for WEoC2020

Weekend of Clay at the Foxon Firehouse, 1420 North High Street, East Haven,
March 14th and 15th.  (Located at the corner of Rt 80 and High St in East Haven)
Classes BY Members of the guild FOR Members of the guild.

Sat am - Butterfly Koi Fish in Polymer Clay -  Debbie Jaffe
Sat pm - Grunge Roses - Denise Fitzsimmons
Sun am - Insert YOUR Style Here - Carole Monahan
Sun pm - Illuminated Resin - Christy Sherman
Times are 9:00 - 12:30 and 1:30-5 each day Please set up between
(the workroom will be open Saturday evening for extra clay time)

Class fees are $15 each class, payable to the Guild.
Carole will take your payment at the WEoC.

Membership dues will need to be paid to take the classes.
Materials fees paid directly to the teacher on the day of the class.
You can take all 4 classes or any of them.

For Class Descriptions Please Click Here!
(This was emailed to members on 3/4/20)

Dec 8, 2018 Guild Meeting

Tag Sale and Potluck Luncheon for the December 8 meeting (SECOND SATURDAY)

Tag Sale - The more people who bring things in, the better the tag sale!!!

Members DONATE Polymer Clay/art/crafts related items to sell for $1

Bigger ticket items are raffled off.

Smaller items to be packaged into $1 value

Numbers are drawn, we line up.

Members select one item each time around

After a few turns the items are reduced to 2 for $1 and so on until the table is empty.

Potluck Lunch

We all bring in something to share...

Nothing is assigned…

We have plates, napkins, cups, etc.

If it will need serving utensils, please bring them.

We can't keep food cold or cook so keep that in mind. We can keep a few crock pots plugged in.

Clay ConneCTion ’18 Prize Winners

We were so fortunate to have so many prizes to share with our lucky attendees.

Our goodie bags were filled with many samples of clays from Polyform, Apoxie Sculpt, clay and cutters from Makin's, and generous coupons from Makin's, Sculpey, Marvelous Molds, ComposiMold and Craftcast.
They were generous and also donated items for our raffle. Other donations were given by R J Crafts and many of the attendees. Thanks to all of you for making this such a successful and fun retreat!
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