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Portrait Masterclass, London

£950 - 5 days

  • ✓ Sculpt a life-size portrait head in water-based clay

    ✓ Work from a life model: no more than 3 sculptors per life model

    ✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

    ✓ Watch demonstrations and receive individual critiques

    ✓ All materials included and take your sculpture home

    ✓ Interest in Drawing in Space recommended, with beginners welcome

  • • Working from life

    • Blocking in the head

    • The Profile

    • Comparative proportions in profile

    • Directional changes in profile

    • Spatial depth

    • Structural solidity

    • The features

    • Sculptural Likeness

    • Surface Resolution

  • Arrive: 9.30-9.45

    Model Session: 10.00-13.00

    Lunchbreak: 13.00-14.00

    Model Session: 14.00-17.00

  • Battersea Business Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QL

Figure Masterclass, London

£1600 - 10 days

  • ✓ Sculpt a 1/2 life-size figure in clay

    ✓ Work from a life model

    ✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

    ✓ Watch demonstrations and receive individual critiques

    ✓ All materials included and take your sculpture home  

    ✓ Experience in Drawing in Space or sculpting from life recommended

  • • Working from life

    • Setting a pose

    • Relating the armature

    • Blocking in

    • Introducing gesture

    • Linear drawing

    • Establishing proportions

    • Developing gesture

    • Spatial drawing

    • Portraiture for the figure

    • Developing body type in pose

    • Surface resolution

  • Arrive: 9.30-9.45

    Model Session: 10.00-12.00

    Lunchbreak: 12.00-13.00

    Model Session: 13.00-15.00

    Sculpture Study: 15.00-16.00
    (A hand, foot, or feature)

  • Battersea Business Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QL

Torso Masterclass, London

£1600 - 10 days

  • ✓ Sculpt a 40 cm torso in clay

    ✓ Work from a life model

    ✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

    ✓ Watch demonstrations and receive individual critiques

    ✓ All materials included and take your sculpture home  

    ✓ Experience in Drawing in Space or sculpting from life recommended

  • • Working from life

    • Setting a pose

    • Relating the armature

    • Blocking in

    • Introducing gesture

    • Linear drawing

    • Establishing proportions

    • Developing gesture

    • Mapping out internal shapes

    • Developing planar shapes

    • Spatial drawing

    • Developing body type in pose

    • Cropping

    • Modelling form

    • Surface resolution

  • Arrive: 9.30-9.45

    Model Session: 10.00-12.00

    Lunchbreak: 12.00-13.00

    Model Session: 13.00-15.00

    Optional free sculpt: 15.00-16.00

  • Battersea Business Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QL

Portrait Bust Masterclass, London

£1800 - 10 days

  • ✓ Sculpt a life-size portrait and bust in water-based clay

    ✓ Work from a life model: no more than 3 sculptors per life model

    ✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

    ✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

    ✓ Watch demonstrations and receive individual critiques

    ✓ All materials included and take your sculpture home  

    ✓ Experience in Drawing in Space or sculpting from life recommended

  • • Working from life

    • Blocking in the head, neck and shoulders

    • The structural highway

    • The profile

    • Comparative proportions in profile

    • Directional changes in profile

    • Spatial depth

    • Structural solidity

    • The features

    • The shoulder girdle

    • Developing gesture

    • Sculptural Likeness

    • Surface Resolution

    ✓ Experience in Drawing in Space* or sculpting from life recommended

    *Find out more about Drawing in Space; Theory and Practice of Figurative Sculpture by Robert Bodem and Poppy Field.

  • Arrive: 9.30-9.45

    Model Session: 10.00-13.00

    Lunchbreak: 13.00-14.00

    Model Session: 14.00-17.00

  • Battersea Business Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QL