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A thorough and considered approach to this fascinating art
Mastering Portrait Sculpture for Artists
Dates for 2012
9th - 12th March 2012 - Seale Hayne, Newton Abbot, Devon
11th - 14th May 2012 - Seale Hayne, Newton Abbot, Devon
21st – 24th September 2012 - Seale Hayne, Newton Abbot, Devon
This is not a typical art course where you are left to your own devices to find your own expression.
Each studio session is crafted to help you uncover a complex understanding of the subtleties of the human architecture.
Throughout the course you will focus on method and procedure in a pragmatic approach that enables you to grasp each stage of perception.
You will be able to transfer the skills learnt to figurative and animal sculpting.
Creating a likeness:
Working to commission
Bringing the clay to life
Knowing when to stop
Rescuing a disaster
Introduction: Mastering Portrait Sculpture builds on each participants unique ability and offers you key techniques and protocols that will help you to unravel the complexity of understanding visual form. This Master Class is limited to 10 participants in Devon (16 in Cambridge) and suitable for professional as well as novice sculptors, as tuition will be individually tailored to requirements. The surgical course is only open to surgeons at any level of their training.
Aims and Objectives: The portrait bust represents one of the most challenging tasks for the sculptor. The aim of the course is to train ways of seeing that will develop your perception of 3-D form. Using the portrait bust as the vehicle, a complex understanding of the subtleties of the human architecture is uncovered
The course focuses on method and procedure in a pragmatic approach that enables each stage of perception to be readily grasped and includes the following...
Measuring and anatomical proportions:
o Develop acute observation through stages of perception
o Building an armature with different methods of construction
o Going beyond knowledge of the human anatomy
o Learning to close the gap between what is observed and what can be reproduced
Creating a likeness:
o Working to commission
o Bringing the clay to life
o Knowing when to stop
o Rescuing a disaster
Working procedure: The 4 day course is divided into 8 periods of sustained clay modeling. These are interspersed with relevant lectures and discussions. The skills you will gain each day will be built upon in subsequent days. A protocol will be developed that will enable you to proceed from the simple to the complex, from the external forms to the subtle details. Each day you will focus on specific aims and objectives in rendering a life like portrait bust, with demonstrations and lectures covering style in sculpture, sculptural language and aesthetics. Each modeling period will focus on gathering the correct information and help you find what is essential in unraveling the complex nature of the human head.
The course concludes with a critique of the work and an assessment of what has been learned. The heads are prepared for firing, for later collection
Luke Shepherd has been leading 4 day portrait modeling classes for over 20 years. He regularly attends Master classes himself with the Society of Portrait Sculptors.
Cost: To include all materials, scrumptious lunches and refreshments £425
Please email for 4 page detailed information about this course.
Accommodation: If you would like recommendation with choosing your accommodation in South Devon, please let me know well in advance, as the best places are in demand at this time of year. The Cambridge organizer will be able to help you find suitable accommodation in the area.
Food in Devon is freshly prepared and organic wherever possible and cooked at home on our Aga. Refreshments on all courses are provided throughout the day and include a range of teas, coffees, herbal drinks and snacks.
Please inform us well in advance if you have special dietary requirements and we will do our utmost to accommodate. We take pride in our hospitality.
Further info. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you would like further information.
About the Tutor Luke Shepherd
Too traditional to be taken seriously at art college, yet too gifted to be ignored, Luke Shepherd has always made portrait busts, working directly in the clay without the need for preliminary drawing.
His name is synonymous with bronze portrait sculpture, with a plethora of commissions over the past 20 years from sitters such as comedian Billy Connolly who sat for 4 hilarious sittings at the Theatre Royal, Bath where a spare dressing room was turned into an impromptu studio.
Other famous sitters include The Late the Rt. Hon Viscount Tonypandy, The Rt. Hon the Lord Crickhowell, Leo Abse and the singer Stuart Burrows to name but a few.
Shepherds bronzes have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Academie des Beaux Arts, Paris as well as in the public collection of the National Library of Wales and the University of Wales.
Shepherd strives for both perfection and precision. His work is firmly established in an observational methodology, returning renaissance values whilst maintaining a contemporary mode of expression that exhibits a clear understanding of the sitter, bringing out the enduring qualities of their character. Alongside his commissioned portrait busts, his smaller figurative bronze editions are beginning to be highly prized.
The artist explains ...for the past 29 years I have been studying the human head, fascinated by a desire to unravel its mystery. Each sitter reveals their beauty, unique and elusive. To preserve this moment of understanding and capture it in bronze is my aim in both portraiture and smaller figurative works.
Shepherd has close links with the Royal College of Surgeons of England where he teaches plastic and maxillofacial surgeons the 3-D aspects of their art.
Lukes flare and ability is above all for portrait sculpture, admiring great artists such as Rembrandt, Michelangelo and the Impressionists. He now lives in rural Devon with his wife, Aga and studio.
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February 18, 2010 - Art & Activities
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November 25, 2008 - jane
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Excellent course - highly recommended Luke's courses are excellent! He welcomes you into his studio and home, cooks delicious meals for course participants, gives interesting lectures and then guides you through the practical processes involved with an accurate critique of your work at the end. His course notes are fulsome and very useful, both as an aide memoir and as reference to more in-depth study and information on suppliers etc.
Highly recommended.
Jane Baker Sculptor
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November 24, 2008 - Luke
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With great enthusiasm In a creative burst some 40 years ago I taught myself portrait head modelling and waste mould casting in ciment fondu. Six heads followed over the next 18 months, all still in the hands of the sitters. Last year I undertook a course with Luke, who bridged that 40 year gap and showed me the importance of a sound visual and technical approach to portrait modelling, which exposed the weaknesses of my youthful efforts and re-ignited my desire to explore portrait modelling, but in in a more disciplined and mature way. 40 years is a considerable gap to bridge, but Luke's enthusiasm and skill have given me the desire unpack my old modelling tools and utilise some of the creative remnants of my youth. Tony Hill
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November 21, 2008 - Luke
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Luke is passionate about his subject "Luke is passionate about his subject and this comes through in his teaching about which he is serious. Although not a beginner I learnt a huge amount both in terms of techniques but more importantly an approach and framework to portrait sculpture. The four days were well structured – and there was no time to be bored. \"
Michael Saunders - Course Participant 2008
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