36 Hour Classes
INSTRUCTOR: Jamie Carrington, Fellow
COURSE: Polymer Clay Sculpting
PROJECT: Sculpting and Dressing the 1/24" Scale Tudor Figure
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class offers another chance to experiment with the half-scale figure, this time dressed in the Tudor Period— from Henry the Eighth to Elizabeth the First. Create figures from the highest in the land to their servants, their jesters, and all in between.
Working from one of the instructor’s base moulds, to keep proportions correct, students will sculpt the facial features of both a male and a female before learning how to form a two-part plaster mould. This allows students to reproduce their original figures and develop character, age, and expression to each new personality. Students will then be shown how to sculpt the tiny hands with wires through the fingers for strength and they will have the chance to adjust the fingers to give full expression to the pose. Then on to the feet, before assembling the figure and completing the limbs in readiness for painting.
Then, on the last two days of school, students will have the adventure of dressing and wigging the figures. Basic patterns will be provided and here’s where students begin to see just what they’ve done, always a surprise! Students are encouraged to bring in their own ideas of what they’d like to create, bring in props and furniture suitable for the scale, and find the doll maker inside themselves.
TIME: 36 hours. The completion of a group of finished figures in highly likely.
POWER TOOLS: None
SKILL LEVEL: All levels. This class welcomes the inexperienced, wanting to have a go at this scale, to the experienced doll maker wanting to try out new techniques. The class deals with the human body and has a reputation for being fun and bawdy. Please be aware of this.
MATERIALS FEE: $60 to be collected at school. Sculpting tools will be available for purchase at the end of class.