Meetup With The Vancouver Polymer Clay Guild

00:00:03 –> 00:00:08 Hi guys, its Cindy Lietz, your Polymer Clay Tutor, and we are out in Sunny White Rock,

00:00:08 –> 00:00:16 well actually not so Sunny White Rock today, we are with the Vancouver Polymer Clay Guild,

00:00:16 –> 00:00:19 and we’ve just been visiting with Claudia who’s here from Australia.

00:00:19 –> 00:00:25 So we thought we’d get together as a group, and show each other what we’ve been working

00:00:25 –> 00:00:30 on and stuff, and I’ve got Nancy here who can tell us a little bit about the guild and

00:00:30 –> 00:00:32 when you got started and that kind of thing.

00:00:32 –> 00:00:40 (N)We got started in 2007, and just a group of us got together, and we’ve been sort

00:00:40 –> 00:00:41 of expanding.

00:00:41 –> 00:00:49 We have a Retreat every second year on the odd years, one coming up in 2015 called Horizons,

00:00:49 –> 00:00:55 and we also meet every month on the second Saturday of every month out in Surrey, and

00:00:55 –> 00:01:00 everybody is welcome, and if you happen to be a visitor from out of town, come on and

00:01:00 –> 00:01:02 join us if you happen to be around.

00:01:02 –> 00:01:04 (C)Now how many members are there now?

00:01:04 –> 00:01:05 (N)Hundred and three.

00:01:05 –> 00:01:10 (C)Hundred and three, now how many people regularly show at the meetings do you think?

00:01:10 –> 00:01:12 (N)I don’t know…help me out…

00:01:12 –> 00:01:14 (A)10 or so…

00:01:14 –> 00:01:18 (E) Maximum, 9 or 10, but usually half a dozen.

00:01:18 –> 00:01:22 (C)Oh, yeah, and you guys get together and you work on…you do kinda little workshops

00:01:22 –> 00:01:25 and do different demos and things like that, right?

00:01:25 –> 00:01:28 (N)Yeah, every month, every month we have what we call clay days, so yeah that works,

00:01:28 –> 00:01:37 we have a little workshop coming up on this, in May, just doing… making molds, if anybody

00:01:37 –> 00:01:44 is interested in making a mold of you know, an insect, a face…whatever, and we’ve

00:01:44 –> 00:01:51 had others where we’ve done extruding, where we’ve done the little… if you can see

00:01:51 –> 00:01:57 in here, the little pixilated extruder, and…

00:01:57 –> 00:02:00 (C)And this is one of the little projects you worked on right?

00:02:00 –> 00:02:05 (N)This is a challenge that we worked on, is that every month…or every second month,

00:02:05 –> 00:02:10 we get a new picture with a bunch of different colors on it, you do not do the picture, but

00:02:10 –> 00:02:15 you do the colors…you have to mix your own colors and figure out what’s in there, and

00:02:15 –> 00:02:16 this is what we see.

00:02:16 –> 00:02:21 (C)Now you can see on the table here, we’ve got a wide range from all kinds of different

00:02:21 –> 00:02:25 styles and skill levels and all kinds of things on here.

00:02:25 –> 00:02:30 Now, we’ve already shown the teapots of Claudia’s, and …but what else can we show

00:02:30 –> 00:02:32 that we’ve got here?

00:02:32 –> 00:02:36 You’ve got your little pieces here…

00:02:36 –> 00:02:43 April…these guys know that I have trouble with names, but anyways, April has done some

00:02:43 –> 00:02:51 really cute little fairy doors and things here, and then over here, what else have we

00:02:51 –> 00:02:52 got?

00:02:52 –> 00:02:59 We’ve got some work from… we’ve got Joan’s work here, this little fish is Joan’s,

00:02:59 –> 00:03:07 so Joan tell us a little bit about what you do, you also show your work at the Granville

00:03:07 –> 00:03:09 Island Market and things right?

00:03:09 –> 00:03:13 (J)Well basically I’m a Day Vendor at Granville Island market, so I’m there most of the

00:03:13 –> 00:03:17 time and on the front of the table I have my display, in the back of the table I actually

00:03:17 –> 00:03:19 work while I’m there.

00:03:19 –> 00:03:24 (C)Joan has a really beautiful collection of things over here, her…your work has got

00:03:24 –> 00:03:30 a…quite an Oriental kind of flair to it, someone here said that you lived in Japan

00:03:30 –> 00:03:31 for a bit, right?

00:03:31 –> 00:03:35 (J)Well, I was brought up in Steveston, which used to be quite Japanese, and then I lived

00:03:35 –> 00:03:39 in Japan for about 8 years, so I think I’m part Japanese by osmosis.

00:03:39 –> 00:03:44 (C)And you can… you can really see it if you see some of her pieces, she’s got some

00:03:44 –> 00:03:50 great whistles and jewelry, and hairclips and bracelets and things, her fish is really

00:03:50 –> 00:03:55 quite wonderful, it’s on a rock and it’s got all this cane work and things on it, and

00:03:55 –> 00:03:56 what else?

00:03:56 –> 00:04:02 We’ve got Laurence here, hey Laurence, (L) Hello (C) He actually lives in White Rock,

00:04:02 –> 00:04:07 out in this area here, he’s got some pieces in the front here; oh why don’t you tell

00:04:07 –> 00:04:11 us about your Inukshuk (L)I just…

00:04:11 –> 00:04:19 I’m not very good at sculpting, but doing an Inukshuk struck me as being very easy to

00:04:19 –> 00:04:20 do…I was wrong.

00:04:20 –> 00:04:25 (C)Yeah, that’s the way it works isn’t it?

00:04:25 –> 00:04:31 (L)Yeah, trying to hold it together and make sure it wouldn’t fall apart…but it is

00:04:31 –> 00:04:37 quite a symbol, it was around a lot during the Olympics in Vancouver.

00:04:37 –> 00:04:40 (C)Yeah, tell them what an Inukshuk is.

00:04:40 –> 00:04:45 (L)Oh, it’s a traveling guide for native…

00:04:45 –> 00:04:48 (C) And the Inuits right?

00:04:48 –> 00:04:56 (L)Inuits yeah, the Eskimos, and it shows you where there’s a safe journey if you’re

00:04:56 –> 00:04:57 traveling.

00:04:57 –> 00:05:03 (C)Yes, so you’ll see them out in the north, they’ve got stacks of rocks and they’re

00:05:03 –> 00:05:06 lone pointers, but they often look like little men and things right?

00:05:06 –> 00:05:14 (L)That’s right, yeah, and the reason I didn’t use just regular faux rock is I wanted

00:05:14 –> 00:05:19 it to look like there was Northern Lights shining off the Inukshuk, so that’s why

00:05:19 –> 00:05:24 I used the powders to give it that gloss.

00:05:24 –> 00:05:27 (C)Yeah, it’s very cute, I like that…

00:05:27 –> 00:05:28 I love it.

00:05:28 –> 00:05:30 (E) It’s got character.

00:05:30 –> 00:05:36 (C) It does, now, Ellen has a completely different style, she’s got all kinds of jewelry and

00:05:36 –> 00:05:41 things, let’s see, we’ll grab something off the table here of yours, why don’t you…I

00:05:41 –> 00:05:46 can hold it here for Doug, why don’t you tell us a little bit about it.

00:05:46 –> 00:05:52 (E)I wanted…I make a lot of these veneer sheets, and I love drift wood and collecting

00:05:52 –> 00:06:00 pebbles, and I love little dolls, little spirit dolls, so I dressed her in my sheets, she’s

00:06:00 –> 00:06:08 got little drilled beach pebbles for feet, vitreous enamel on copper buttons, a little

00:06:08 –> 00:06:13 face that was done with a mold, and if you turn her around, you can see at the back,

00:06:13 –> 00:06:19 her little headpiece is more vitreous enamel on copper, so she will eventually be standing

00:06:19 –> 00:06:23 up on something and I’m gonna make a little group of them.

00:06:23 –> 00:06:31 But I have a lot of metal work in my background, so a lot of my pieces have etched metal, rivets,

00:06:31 –> 00:06:34 different things to put them together.

00:06:34 –> 00:06:41 (C)I love your style by the way, she’s got a very earthy style, there’s a lot of metal…

00:06:41 –> 00:06:45 like she said, she does metalsmithing, and silver work, soldering and that kind of thing,

00:06:45 –> 00:06:49 and she’s just got some really unique pieces of jewelry and wall art.

00:06:49 –> 00:06:54 (E)I love the look of mixed media things because I’ve got so many boxes of shells and wood

00:06:54 –> 00:07:00 and pebbles at home, and it’s really fun to try and mix up the Polymer clay with all

00:07:00 –> 00:07:04 of these things, somehow it kinda gets you thinking outside the box.

00:07:04 –> 00:07:09 (C)It sure does, the rules have changed, haven’t they, over the last few years, it’s like

00:07:09 –> 00:07:14 anything goes, and the coolest thing about Polymer clay is that you can take it where

00:07:14 –> 00:07:19 you want to, so if you wanna make a fairy door, if you wanna make a fish, a teapot,

00:07:19 –> 00:07:25 an Inukshuk…you know, a piece of drift wood, a piece of jewelry, you can do that with Polymer

00:07:25 –> 00:07:32 clay, and it’s… and the personalities that are all involved, and the styles, are

00:07:32 –> 00:07:33 just really endless.

00:07:33 –> 00:07:38 And I wanted to introduce you to the guild so that you could see that there’s this

00:07:38 –> 00:07:43 kinda thing happening all over the world, basically, and little groups of people coming

00:07:43 –> 00:07:49 from different backgrounds, with different skills and different personalities and styles

00:07:49 –> 00:07:54 and they’re coming together in these guilds, and I just thought you’d love to meet these

00:07:54 –> 00:07:55 guys.

00:07:55 –> 00:07:59 So I hope you enjoyed that, and make sure to leave us a comment.

00:07:59 –> 00:08:03 If you’ve got a guild in your area that you’d like to let us know about, leave that

00:08:03 –> 00:08:05 in the comment section below.

00:08:05 –> 00:08:11 And if you have any video…or ideas, or things that you would like me to demonstrate in the

00:08:11 –> 00:08:14 future, let me know about that too, alright?

00:08:14 –> 00:08:16 So we’ll see you next time, and bye for now.

00:08:16 –> 00:08:18 (ALL)Bye.

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