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Have fun developing your personal color palette and style while learning Carols unique approach to kaleidoscope design and pendant  construction.  Topics will include:

• Selecting a color palette you love for your master cane

• Color mixing to achieve color harmony and strong value contrast within your selected palette

• Ways to modify/control your clay for better caning results

• Applying a painterly approach to component cane design (using new and old Skinner Blend techniques)

• Component cane types, ranging from simple to detailed, and how to construct them (level of difficulty and types of canes will depend upon interest and experience of participants)

• Strategies for complex cane design (how to use different cane types to create rhythm, balance, emphasis, contrast and flow in the master cane)

• Constructing and reducing the master cane.

• Slicing the cane with the “Simmons Slicer”

• Information on how to store/transport/handle the slices.

• Making and using angle templates

• Combining sections of slices to produce a wide variety of beautiful, unique but coordinated  designs

The 13^th annual San Diego Polymer Clay Guide Sandy Camp will again be held at the Temecula Creek Inn October 5 - 9, 2011. This year's theme is “Trick And Treat”.  9 formal demos over the 5 days with tons of informal sharing.  Saturday evening is a big Family Feast outdoors in front of a manmade waterfall, followed by our infamous opportunity drawing. Come play, have fun with us and even go explore the Temecula Wine Country if you have time.