sculpture and clay
Went to this workshop on Saturday held by a local group of claymakers. I'd told my sister about them ("They're probably a bunch of older ladies... but someone's worked out how to do websites... "). Anyway, yes they were a bunch of (mostly) older ladies, but they were cool ladies and they were doing cool stuff and being at the workshop linked me into more of the local arts scene that is mostly known about via word of mouth and personal mail.
The ceramics studio at the Tafe is seriously well equipped: lots of wheels, big light filled rooms, equipment to cut and sculpt your work, books, displays of work to aspire to, promotion of upcoming events, kiln and tutors who know what they're doing. The teacher taught us some coiling techniques for sculpting life figures out of clay and how to most effectively join the coils to avoid any explosions by the time of firing. He also demonstrated the use of plastilene to sculpt the form of our life model (who I'd met before at my drawing class a few months ago), and ways to capture the movement from life into a solid sculpture. Was most pleased to have someone quiz me about my history:
"Have you done sculpture before? Worked with clay before? Done life drawing? I thought you must have done something to be able to get form like that." (Amazing how much we crave external feedback, I've just done a long essay about self regulated learning and how to improve your ability to motivate yourself by intrinsic factors not external ones such as competition; yet when I got the assignment back with a very pleasant high grade, I jumped for joy at receiving external validation. Interesting to note and become slightly self aware of).
Pictures to come...
The ceramics studio at the Tafe is seriously well equipped: lots of wheels, big light filled rooms, equipment to cut and sculpt your work, books, displays of work to aspire to, promotion of upcoming events, kiln and tutors who know what they're doing. The teacher taught us some coiling techniques for sculpting life figures out of clay and how to most effectively join the coils to avoid any explosions by the time of firing. He also demonstrated the use of plastilene to sculpt the form of our life model (who I'd met before at my drawing class a few months ago), and ways to capture the movement from life into a solid sculpture. Was most pleased to have someone quiz me about my history:
"Have you done sculpture before? Worked with clay before? Done life drawing? I thought you must have done something to be able to get form like that." (Amazing how much we crave external feedback, I've just done a long essay about self regulated learning and how to improve your ability to motivate yourself by intrinsic factors not external ones such as competition; yet when I got the assignment back with a very pleasant high grade, I jumped for joy at receiving external validation. Interesting to note and become slightly self aware of).
Pictures to come...
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