Bodyscape's Art workshops.
Hands-on, practical courses in Auckland and Waiheke Island with Olivier
Duhamel
"Wax as a Sculpting
Medium"
3 Hours workshop
$150
Course
Outline: Wax is a wonderful medium to sculpt with. Learn the
basics techniques and unleash your creativity. This 3 hours workshop
will have you make an initial sketch of a small object of your
choice. You can then take this sculpture home to continue to work on
and refine. Beware: Modelling in wax is highly addictive.
Topics: What is wax? Advantages of wax a sculpting medium.
Safety issues. Softening wax. Modelling wax. Using a hot
knife. Welding wax. Surface
smoothing. Tips and tricks.Q&A
Course Role: Minimum 5 People/ Maximum 8 Fees $150
All materials included. No previous experience necessary. Dress
appropriately.
Course
Outline: An introduction to life casting techniques. This 3
hours workshop will have you making a mold of your own hand and
casting it in plaster. At the end of the course you go home with a
highly realistic plaster sculpture of your own hand.
Topics: What is life casting? Various molding
materials? Various casting materials. Life casting applications.
Mold our own hand. Cast plaster in the mold, Release the
sculpture. Fixing defects. Other Molding techniques. Baby
hands? Taking it further?... Q&A
Course Role: Minimum 5 People/ Maximum 10 Fees $180
All materials included. No previous experience necessary. Dress
appropriately.
Course outline: This full day one on one
workshop will have you complete a medium sized body casting (a
torso) cast in Forton MG which you can take home with you at the end
of the day.
Topics: Choosing a pose.
Mixing Alginate. Applying Alginate. Building a mother mold. Mixing
Forton, Casting and reinforcing Forton. Finishing. The fee includes
a complimentary copy of our "Body
Casting Manual"
Read an overview of the body casting process.
Models: Invite your own model (Your spouse or a friend) or we
can provide a model. (extra charge of $100.)
Course Role: One on One - Lunch
included - Fees $350
All materials included. No previous experience necessary. Dress
appropriately.
Course outline: This 6 days one on one
workshop teaches the lost wax technique and will have you cast your
own small fist sized bronze sculpture.
The workshop is suitable for professional sculptors and hobbyist or
as an elective for art students.
Topics: Day 1- You will first be making a small sculpture in wax. It is
essential that it is made in wax.
Day 2 and 3 - The wax figurine will then be prepared for the mold.
You will continue to learn the basics of wax working. The wax
will then be encased in a ceramic mold, called “shell”, which is
painted in its liquid form in several layers over the wax and then
left to dry.
Day 4 - The shell is further build up - Take the afternoon off to
visit our wonderful Island (Art galleries, vineyards, beaches,
walking tracks and more...)
Day 5 - Once the shell is dry, you will use a gas torch to melt the
wax out of the shell. This is called “de-waxing” or “burning out”.
You will then have an empty negative of your original shape, a
ceramic mold. A simple temporary furnace needs to be built and metal
melted inside a crucible before it is poured in the empty shell.
This is the most exciting part of the process. Do not be
intimidated, the method is both safe and easy.
Day 6 - Once the metal has cooled and solidified, the shell can be
knocked off to free the newborn bronze sculpture. It will then need
to be cleaned and any imperfections smoothed out. This process is
called “chasing”. Finally, the new sculpture will be given a surface
finish. This is known as patina.
Read a description of the lost wax method.
Course Role: Maximum 2 students - Lunch
included - Fees $850
All materials included. The fee also includes a complimentary copy
of our "Bronze Casting Manual".
No previous experience necessary. Dress appropriately. No particular
physical strength required.
*The workshop can be run on either 6 consecutive days or on 3
consecutives week ends.
Watch a video clip of what you will be doing during the
workshop.
Accomodation: There are a number of
accommodation options on Waiheke Island. You can also stay with
me (comfortable double bedroom, all meals shared with my family -
delicious French cooking - 6 days/5 nights $250 p/p )
"Mold Making Workshop"
2 days workshop
$450
Course Outline: This two days workshop will
have you make a silicon rubber mold of a small object of your
choice. You will then be using the mold to cast a wax or plaster
replicate.
Topics: Depending of the
shape and other characteristics of your object you will be making
either a brush-on silicon mold or a pourable silicon mold. The mold
will either be a one part or a multi parts mold. You will then be
constructing a mother mold. You will then be casting a wax or a
plaster duplicate (or both) of your original.
Course Role: Maximum 2 students - Lunch
included - Fees $450
All materials included. No previous experience necessary. Dress
appropriately
Available on week days or week ends.
Accomodation: There are a number of
accommodation options on Waiheke Island. You can also stay with
me (comfortable double bedroom, all meals shared with my family -
delicious french cooking - 2days/1 night $50 p/p )
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"Life Drawing"
Weekly
$15 per session
Every Monday night rom 7pm to 9:30pm and every
Wednesday morning from 9:30am to 12:00 at the Catherine Mitchell
Cultural Centre in Ostend, Waiheke Island, from 7pm to 9:30pm.
Simply bring your paper and pencil or charcoal.
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