Live Figure Model Sessions
Every 2nd Monday
Session Fee: $20
Ongoing Beginning January 2024
Horse Movement and Anatomy
May 20-24, 9am - 5pm
Workshop Fee: $625
Students will have several days of hands-on equine learning, with live and multimedia tools to fine tune the eye for nuances that make sculptures come to life. No matter your style or media, if you wish to sculpt horses this is the opportunity for you! Bring your own in progress or start from scratch! There will be demonstrations of mold making, tours of the bronze foundry, off-site horse study and a variety of information brought up throughout the week. This class is tailored to meet each student at their level.
Watercolor Workshop
June 15 & 22, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $240
This watercolor workshop is a course designed for beginner and intermediate artists wishing to explore and improve watercolor painting techniques. This course starts with the basics and progresses gradually to more complex subjects and concepts. A variety of concepts, subjects, application techniques, and forms of watercolor are explored providing the learner with a complete exposure to this medium. We will explore a variety of texture applications and how to manipulate the flow of watercolor to create an organic and detailed feel to your pieces.
Virtually Seamless Molds and casting in Cold Cast Bronze
July 15-19, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $480
- X-acto knife handle and at least 20
- #11 x-acto blades
- 1 box of students choice of vinyl or latex gloves (at least 40 pairs)
- long-sleeved shirts, pants and shoes that can be ruined (or improved depending on your perspective)
- Smooth-On Rebound 25 platinum silicone
- Free Form Air epoxy putty
- 1" china bristle brushes
- paint mixing sticks
- mixing cups
Black & White Drawing Workshop
Sept. 5-7, 9am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $360
Students in this workshop will be familiarized with the fundamental principles of drawing, enhancing their ability to see the basic shapes, forms, and values that make up the landscape. Participants will learn to “read” a photograph to accurately discern its weaknesses and to discover its hidden artistic gems. By integrating nature’s inherent proportions into the artistic process, students will receive the rudimentary essentials of composing a masterful landscape drawing. With only a few basic tools used by master artists for centuries, each student will be instructed to properly design, construct, draw, and render a realistic, even a photographic, image of their chosen landscape on paper.
Extreme Portrait Sculpture
Sept. 20-22, 10am - 4:30pm
Workshop Fee: $525
Using a fresh and intuitive sculptural language, Rubino will lead participants on a technical and artistic journey toward understanding the dynamic and creative forces associated with a larger-than-life-size portrait sculpture. Follow Peter's step-by-step method of blocking in the foundation, establishing facial planes and features of the human head. Rubino encourages you to go BIG and develop expressive sculptures in your own personal artistic style. In class "We don't make mistakes, we make adjustments."-Peter Rubino.