Short Course: Intro to Sculpting
A fun and easy short course, exploring human and animal form, anatomy and character.
Perfect for anyone wanting their first experience of sculpting with clay, or to expand their knowledge from a previous beginner course or workshop.
This course will provide the basic skills to build on and take forward to more ambitious projects.
Making sculpture is an expressive and experimental process, tuning in to our own emotions. Results may not always be visually precise, but to the observer they can radiate presence, and this is true of any successfully captured figure; from Rodin’s The Thinker, to Nick Park’s Wallace & Gromit.
Suitable for: Complete beginners or those who wish to improve their sculpting skills.
Course Outline
In each of the four weekly sessions, you will follow tutor Helen Ashton’s demonstrations on how to explore and develop two small figurative studies.
Techniques to convey characteristics, gestures and emotion will be combined with comparative measurement and observational study.
Exercises include:
- Small-scale quick studies
- Transforming drawings or photos into three-dimensional seated or lying down forms
- Create a plinth, adding texture
- Understanding the importance of movement or gesture within a study
- Try blocking and line techniques to ensure balance and fluidity
At the end of the four weeks you will have completed two small reclining or seated studies on plinths, of approximate 15 x 10 x 15cm maximum dimensions.
Further details
This course is open to adults (16+). The cost includes instruction, materials and the items you make to take home, which will be fired for you. Refreshments and drinks are included.