Portrait Sculpture 1 – An Expressive Approach

Description

Portrait Sculpture 1
An Expressive Approach

Several portrait heads will be created from three different models.
You will use wax and clay and learn moulding making techniques using alginate and plaster as casting materials. Using the waste mould technique you will make a plaster cast of one of your heads.
Another head will be hollowed out and fired at the school.
Portrait sculpture 1 will enable you to gain a greater understanding of the depiction of the human head in the 20th and 21st century that began with a modernistic approach evolved by Rodin.

What you will learn:
How to make sculpture with direct reference from the human head.
You will learn how to make an armature (supporting frame) to carry the clay, plaster or wax that you are working with. We will look at some of the important measurements that need to be made and how the skull and muscle structure influence our outward appearance and identity. By referring to other artists you will learn how much information or detail is needed to communicate the character of the subject.

Who this course is for:
Although some experience of making sculpture will be useful all levels of experience can be accommodated. It is important that you are prepared to have a flexible and creative approach -you will discover how sculpture is a process led way of making artworks

What’s included:
All materials will be provided but you will need wooden clay modelling tools.

Mondays

23 September – 9 December / 10.00pm – 4.00pm
12 weeks / No half term break

Tutor: Tony Mott & Laura Postle

Course #: MN43