The Expressive Portrait – Intensive Two-Week Workshop

June 14 - 25, 2010 Shelton, Washington

Learn how to turn clay into flesh and hair and personality! We will spend two weeks on nothing but portrait sculpture. Discover the most important elements of a successful portrait, and learn professional techniques for getting them right. And once you’ve got them right, learn from a master portrait sculptor the finishing secrets which breathe life into the clay head, so that it seems about to speak, smile or cry. We will start by making a clay copy of a skull, then learn the facial muscles by modeling them on the skull, then manipulate them to create expression. We will make life-size head studies from two models, one male and one female. The workshop will be held at Cristina Mikulasek’s farm studio near the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. If coming from afar, try to add on a week for hiking and camping and beachwalking! $1,200 tuition includes instruction, models, and materials. Housing can be arranged to suit. Class limit 10.

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Combined Portrait and Figure Sculpture – Two-Week Workshop

July 5 - 16, 2010 Shelton, Washington

For those who want to taste it all but have limited time, this two-week workshop covers both portrait and figure sculpture. During the first week, we will complete a full ecorche (anatomical figure) and a half-life-size figure from a live model. During the second week, we will make a clay copy of the human skull, learn all the muscles of the face, and develop an understanding of how these muscles work to express emotion. Each student will also complete a life-size portrait from a live model. The workshop will be held at Cristina Mikulasek’s farm studio near the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. If coming from afar, try to add on a week for hiking and camping and beachwalking! $1,200 tuition includes instruction, models, and materials. Housing can be arranged to suit. Class limit 10.

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The Living Figure - Intensive Figure Workshop

July 26 - August 6, 2010 Shelton, Washington

We will spend two weeks on nothing but figure sculpture. We will study anatomy and proportion and make half-life-size clay figures from two models, one male and one female. The workshop will be held at Cristina Mikulasek’s farm studio near the beautiful Olympic Peninsula. If coming from afar, try to add on a week for hiking and camping and beach-walking! $1,200 tuition includes instruction, models, and materials. Housing can be arranged to suit. Class limit 10.

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Figurative Marble Carving – Unique Two- or Four-Week Workshop

The Marble Barn Shelton, Washington

August 16 - 27 Daily Instruction & Demonstration $1,200

August 30 - September - 10 Supervised Carving $800

Unique opportunity to work with an Italian-trained figurative carver. Demonstrations and guidance in basic to advanced techniques, including: tool selection, use, sharpening; setting points with “la machinetta” for same-size transfer to marble of any sculpture, and enlarging/reducing using “la sistema compasse” (calipers/triangulation). The instructor, figurative sculptor Cristina Mikulasek, studied for six years with Italian master carvers in Pietrasanta, Italy. Instruction, lunch, carving bench, compressor included; tools and Italian marble available for purchase. Housing is available nearby ranging from hotel room to camping. Because figurative carving is relatively slow work, please come for as long as you can. Class limit 6. To download workshop information and registration packet as a PDF file click here