Figurative Sculpture Workshop is a four-week hands-on class. We start with focusing on our individual ideas— creating a narrative as the first step towards sculpting uniquely personal hand-built pieces. The instructor will create her own sculpture for direct demonstrations. Visualizing, designing, and planning strategies to build a representational figurative form will be covered as well as investigating various techniques of hand building, modeling, texturing, and altering form. Proportional concepts will also be reviewed leading to how proportion can be used to adjust and alter expressive elements. Resource materials to enhance understanding of balance, form, and basic anatomy will also be introduced. In the final session, our bisque pieces will be washed with oxide to bring out details, and then glazed.

About the Artist:

Caroly Van Duyn is a full-time artist and art instructor, living part time in Connecticut, North Carolina and Maine. In addition to sculptural ceramics, Caroly is a printmaker, loves to draw and create collages and works in concrete and wood. Sculpting the figure has always motivated the narrative storyteller in Caroly, with drama and action as part of her expression. Graduating from SUNY at Purchase with an MFA, she focused on trees and the ecology of our transforming environment. For her MA, she focused her thesis on Antarctic Field Notebooks in the Heroic Age of Discovery. “Story is the quintessential aspect of being human, whether recording, analyzing, illustrating or imagining!”