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Join a hands-on workshop retreat to create figurative clay sculptures from live models, learning proportion, gesture, composition, and techniques for modeling water-based clay.
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Get matched →Join a creative intensive focused on figurative sculpture in clay with artist Basil Watson. Participants will explore the human figure through direct observation, moving from drawing into three-dimensional form. Working from a live model, students will develop an understanding of proportion, gesture, and composition as a foundation for sculptural interpretation.
The workshop begins with drawing exercises emphasizing structure, balance, and spatial relationships. Participants will then translate observations into clay, building and articulating forms at approximately one-third life size. Instruction covers techniques for modeling in water-based clay with simple armature supports (bamboo skewers), constructing forms with integrity, refining anatomical relationships, and resolving surfaces through additive and subtractive methods. By the end, each participant will have completed a small-scale figure study prepared for kiln firing.
Basil Watson is a figurative sculptor with nearly five decades of experience, trained at Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. He is widely recognized for more than sixty public monuments installed worldwide, including tributes to Usain Bolt in Jamaica and monuments to Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis in Atlanta. He created the National Windrush Monument in London.
This workshop is intended for Beginner to Intermediate skill levels.
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Tools and materials are provided. Participants are encouraged to bring personal modeling tools if desired.
Register online. For questions or to arrange check-in outside 1–5 PM, contact [email protected].