Last weekend (February 23-24, 2013) was the fourth paperclay workshop I have taught at Santa Fe Clay. We had 14 people. Barbara Campbell ably assisted me and Todd Volz, the Santa Fe Clay Studio Manager, was great to work with. I was gratified to find that all of the participants really understood that the use of paperclay opens them up to new possibilities.
Here is the latest paperclay handout.
This piece is about that disconcerting or disorienting feeling of driving in a car and having the passenger(s) issue conflicting directions.
Imbedded in the sculpture during the making is a rather large previously fired fragment of a face as well as a previously fired hand. The use of paperclay allowed me to imbed these fired pieces and then fire the sculpture again without them cracking out of the piece. Two metal pieces were added after the firing.
Here is a document I use in my paperclay classes and workshops. It contains a summary of my accumulated paperclay wisdom.
To print this handout on paperclay for sculpture, click the full-screen icon: 
at the top right in the viewer above
Then in the full screen viewer, choose “file” on the top left and underneath that choose print (pdf).
