The structure of your course in Pietrasanta is really up to you and what you want to achieve, but that is the point of sculpting your own life-changing trip with David. Before the journey even starts then, David will consult on all your hopes, ambitions and requirements, the level of your own skill and tailor-make the experience to your needs.
One of the reasons artists and sculptors have moved to Carrara and Pietrasanta in their droves though, over many years, is access. Finding the right studio, the best teacher in the appropriate medium, the materials you truly want to work with, and, if you are going into bronze casting, the best foundries too; these are all the unseen challenges to the artist’s life anyway and often a very challenging experience too. So, whatever your own sculpting level, from beginner to professional, by living and working in Pietrasanta himself, David has done much of the donkey work for you already, and can open a very unique doorway. That includes a knowledge of both artists and galleries here too and for established or nascent collectors an introduction to many local artists and their work.
Of course, anything you do and want to do is proscribed by time, most especially having work cast into bronze, but David also offers a follow up on that, ensuring that if you want to, even if your work is cast after you leave, a finished bronze will get safely home to you. This is most particularly true in the area of modelling small waxes together, based on your own or many styles, and casting those, which can be a very inexpensive way of taking a memorable piece of work back with you.
COURSE TEMPLATES – All courses can be arranged for longer periods too. Some of these courses will bring in teachers with higher expertise.
Dipping into sculpting
2 weeks – An all round introductory course to sculpting – includes a drawing class, trying out different media, including marble, wax, clay or plastelina, and working up a finished piece, as well as cultural visits and tours.
Clay or Plastelina
1-2 weeks studio work on armatures and sculpting in clay or plastelina. Finished pieces can be sent for casting or firing.
Sculpting and mould making
1-2 weeks both sculpting from photos and drawings and making a mould of the work for potential casting.
Life Sculpting
1-2 weeks clay sculpting the nude with a life model.
Wax working
A course in making small to medium sculptures in wax, different ways of using and working wax and making a wax from a mould for casting. Small wax pieces can be cast later and sent on to the client.
Bronze casting
Especially for those bringing finished work to be cast – 2-4 weeks mould making, producing a wax maquette, working the wax and then the cast bronze – foundry based.
Marble Sculpting
1-2 weeks sculpting in marble or other stone, either with hand or pneumatic tools. Finished work will be shipped home. Based in one of several celebrated marble working studios.
Freeing your creative energy
As part of his sculpting courses, both for those sculpting and friends accompanying, David encourages conversations and workshops in other aspects of art, from historical study and Art History, to English conversation, creative writing and poetry. Other teachers he can draw on can offer Cooking, Drawing, Yoga, Raiki and Tai Chi.
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