Portrait Sculpture Courses

Ever wanted to sculpt a portrait but felt unable 

due to lack of :

•  Opportunity

•  Confidence

•  Skill    

As a practising artist and teacher, I know, creativity can be blocked by these obstacles.

So I have designed courses for small groups, that are enjoyable and suitable for all levels of learners and improvers. 

Using traditional sculpture techniques I will teach you how to sculpt a clay portrait head from a live model which you will be proud of.
    

www.SusanBatesLittle.com

Sculpture in the Woods

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Had a great but exhausting weekend running an Sculpture Portrait course for a small keen and very friendly group of novices .

We worked  in a  converted barn at Bavins, Nr Alton in Hampshire which is set in a wonderful wood where the bluebells and wild garlick was in abundance. We even ate some of our surroundings in the form of a beautiful nettle  soup and also a wild garlick soup made by our host  Jenny Ospici.  I will be certainly make this in the future. The food was lovely and plentiful which gave us the much needed  fortification to really work hard on the sculpture.
Such a lot was achieved over the space of two days by  the group who were  inspired by Ellie who was a fantastic model.
I felt a strange mixture of  mental elation, physical exhaustion and a sadness that such delightful company had to depart on Sunday evening.
I do hope that we can all meet up again and take what we have learned

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Portrait Sculpture Course - Hampshire

Price £150* for two day course

Have fun  and learn  to sculpt  a clay portrait head, from life, using traditional modelling techniques over two days.

10 & 11 MAY                 11 & 12 Sept               1 & 2 Nov

Each day will start at 10am with a short introduction and demonstration of modelling techniques. To save time armatures, which are internal structures to support the clay, will be provided.

At 1pm we will stop for lunch and again at 3pm for refreshment, and to rest and reflect upon our progress. We will pack up for the day at 5pm.

*Includes a model, a 25 kg bag grey clay, a wood and wire armature, refreshments and lunch. Basic tools will be available for loan, but you may bring your own if you wish, and of course remember comfortable shoes.

B&B and Glamping at “Bavins” near Alton - subject to availability – set in beautiful 100 acre wood. Bavins’. Stancombe Lane, New Odiham Road, Nr Alton, Hampshire, GU34 5SX.

To book your Sculpture Portrait Course in Hampshire

Call 01420 561034 or email susanbateslittle@gmail.com

A Head Start(ed)

I have just started a clay portrait head of my young friend. After three hours I am very pleased by the progress made and am looking forward to finishing it by the weekend. 

The grey modeling clay I got from Tiranti's has been a little too wet to handle and had a stickiness to it. Never the less, I am pleased by progress so far and of the keen interest shown by my young sitter in the sculptural process. 

Clay Modelling Tools – Basic Kit

Found these super basic starter tool sets from Great Art.   They are an online company and have some great art equipment. We worth checking out GreatArt.co.uk

It has just the basic tools which are great as a base to add to. I must say my best sculpture tools are pilched from my kitchen drawer. 

Tool kit for £9.99.

Tool Kit for £5.30

  

This entry was posted in Sculpture on March 25, 2014.

Goodbye Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London

                                           

So pleased that I exhibited at 54 The Gallery, Shepherds Market last week. 10 -15 Feb 2014.

My exhibition gave me a great focus  to push myself, do new work and also revaluate my direction. 

Shepherd Market is such a lovely friendly place and is considered the last little village in London. It is full of amazing and reasonable places to eat and lovely little shops. I really enjoyed the Jordanian meal we had with friends after a Private View.

Alas the weather had been horrendous. It had held me up completing sculpture before the exhibition and affected my visitor numbers during it. 

A number of people I invited to the private view were directly effected by flooding and I was amazed that people came from Cambridge and Leicester despite danger and travel disruption. You know it's bad when my friend Marguerite was evacuated from her houseboat, due to the flood, and was having to stay with friends. Imagine how pleased I was that she made time to see me in the midst of her distressing circumstances. 

I learned so much during the week and have a much clearer idea of what to do next. Certianly I will not delegate printing again because this was the area which cost the most, took most time and was least successful. In future I will do it all myself. 

I was flattered that strangers were so interested and supportive of my efforts. A new Algerian friend I made there gave me a Youth stone from the Yeman and I was so thrilled. As a child I lived in that region and love stone and minerals. Coincidentaly a piece of red velvet I treasure, and remember  buying when I was a child in Aden, I used in the show. 

My work was figurative in the exhibition but I felt energised by Shepherds Market to follow my heart and develop my more abstract design work in glass and start  carving stone again. 

CASTING - Waste Mould

Here are images of making a Waste Mould in plaster of the original clay portrait sculpture. I will eventually fill the mould with bronze resin