SHORT COURSES

ONE DAY LIFE STUDY IN CLAY

Date: 1 September 2019      9:30am – 4:30pm
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**All bookings through the Tom Bass Studio Sculpture School. Tel: (02) 9565 4851 or go to the website www.tbsss.org.au **

Tutor: Ingrid Morley

Working directly in clay from a life model, students explore the body’s three-dimensional shape using the fundamental principals of sculpture –  how to observe form and obtain structural integrity.  After initial warm up exercises, students touch on central aspects of classical figurative sculpture to further their individual investigations – proportion, composition, rhythm, negative space, weights and balances and the influence of light.  Students will learn the technical aspects of working with clay – texture and tools and methods of finishing a work in clay will be discussed.

The course is designed for beginners to advanced students. Numbers are limited.

Learning Outcomes:

• working with a model to find a composition
• collating 3D information
• using light as a tool
• modelling in clay from life using additive and reductive techniques
• using clay modelling tools
• developing 3D problem solving skills

What To Bring:

• closed shoes
• note book for your records, sketches and information
• box with a good base to take your clay work home

What We Provide:

• board
• clay (terracotta hand building from Blackwattle)
• modelling tools (please bring your own if you have them)
• basic kitchen facilities are available, tea and coffee is provided. Local cafes are a short walk away

 
 Venue:
     Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
     1a Clara Street Erskineville NSW 2043
     Tel: 02 9565 4851
     Email: [email protected]
     Web: tbsss.org.au 

TERM COURSES

The Artist, the Model and the Foundry - TERM 4 2019
Tuesdays 15 October - 10 December x 8 weeks.
Details coming soon!

**All bookings through the Tom Bass Studio Sculpture School. Tel: (02) 9565 4851 or go to the website www.tbsss.org.au **

Guest Teacher:    Ingrid Morley
“The experience I have as a sculptor, my artistic practice and my teaching experience come together in my passion for the enduring relationship of learning and encountering the ongoing possibilities present between the artist and the life model. Discover how poetry and engineering, using the most complex form in nature - the human body, continues to inspire generations of artists.  Experience this unique communication whilst observing the model from life for the development of a 3D work.”  - Ingrid Morley

Dates:     Term 4 - 2019
                 Tuesday 15 October - Tuesday 10 December
                 ​8 week course running Tuesdays

Cost:      TBA
               (* Early bird payment two weeks before start of term)

Venue: Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School
              1a Clara Street Erskineville NSW 2043
              Tel: 02 9565 4851
              Email: [email protected]
              Web: tbsss.org.au 
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Pictured above: inspiration from Giacometti (top) and Rodin (bottom)