Clay Portrait & Scuplture Class @ Manitou Art Center
Pat’s Sculpting class trains your artist’s Eye to see and understand the forms and features of the head and face. It is also helpful for 2 dimensional (painting/drawing) artists. More advanced students are welcome too.
Brief description of basic Portrait sculpture class with Pat Haase
Hands-on, Seminar format. Starting with Human Skull.
Class starting July 11th, Friday, 6:30 pm 8:30 pm through Aug 31st
Pat can be available for extra critique and encouragement (with prior arrangement) on most days Except for Wednesdays and Thursdays and Tuesday mornings.
Sign up with Retha > retha77@juno.commailto:retha77@juno.com < for monthly Studio fee At Manitou Art Center $88/mo
or questions about enrollment please call 253-471-1312
I am doing it "sliding scale" for instructor fee.
Pay what it is worth, within your means.
Only criteria is: Please do not explain, nor justify, to me (or anyone), how or why you pay whatever you pay.
We all manage our $$ issues in private.
Learning:
Anatomy of the skull, and planes of the face and head;
Bony landmarks which cue us to recognition of individuals;
What Measurements of the head and face are useful;
Helps and Hindrances re: Lighting.
Sculpting features:Orbit and Cheek Bones,nose, mouth, eyes, ears*;
Introduction to facial muscles and facial expression* ;
General issues re: Gender, race*, age*;
Helps and Hindrances when using Photographs;
Ways of sculpting hair;
Review of helpful books;
Recommendations for "next steps" for each Student.
I'll cover technical tips including:
Choosing your Clay body;
Internal Armatures for portrait busts;
Taking advantage of water-clay "behavior" at different degrees of dryness/firmness;
Hollowing, Rebuilding, and Drying, in preparation for Kiln firing;
Brief discussions on surface finishing techniques.*
(* these topics are covered in later sessions of longer seminars.)
There is potential for working from a Model, in the longer workshops. Models get paid $15-20 per hour, so use of Models is more appropriate for students with sculpting and or figure drawing experience.
Books for sculpture, and portrait:
Modelling and sculpting the Human Figure, by Edouard Lanteri. (Old classic)
Gary Fagin's book on Facial Expression (Artist’s Bible on expressions.)
Unmasking the Face, by Paul Ekman and Wallace V. Freisen
A Drawing Manual by Thomas Eakins, www. philamuseum.orghttp://philamuseum.org/. Perspective analysis.
Carving Facial Expressions, by Ian Norbury 1997 Linden Publishing, 1-800-345-4447 ISBN 0-941936-43-0
HUMAN ANATOMY MADE AMAZINGLY EASY, by Christopher Hart.
Mastering Portraiture, by Philippe and Charisse Faraut. www.pcfstudios.comhttp://www.pcfstudios.com/
Short Bio:
PAT HAASE started sculpting in 1994, carving, directly in wood, working with Jim Smith at Defiance Hardware in Tacoma WA. She carved human (and half human) figures from her imagination. After the turn of the century, she modeled small clay figures with gestures that embody figures of speech, or turning points in fables and fairytales. In 2003 Pat started sculpting from live models, with Boris Spivak, and later with Matt Buckner, Tip Toland, John Sisko, and Michael Magrath at Gage Academy, in Seattle.
Most of Pat Haase’s work is ceramic, though she has worked in Wood, Wax, Glass, Bronze, Paper, and Fabric. Pat’s awareness of posture and anatomy comes from teaching Yoga for more than 20 years, and from her medical background.
Pat Haase also teaches sculpture, and has been studio Assistant for Tip Toland.
Selected Shows and exhibits:
2012 July 2-11. juried participant: Work Intensive III “Figuration” at California State University Long Beach Ceramics Department, Tony Marsh, director.
2008 through 2013, life sized ceramic figures placed at Monarch Sculpture Park, Tenino, WA.
March 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005,2004 UNCLAD, The Fine Art of the Figure, Juried show, >UncladArt.comhttp://uncladart.com/<, Stanwood, WA.
Nov. 2010, UN-WEDGED, First annual Pottery Northwest Ceramic Competition and Art Show. Juried by Andy Nassisse. Seattle, WA.
Jan. 2010. “Social Injustice” juried, multi-artist show at The Gallery at Tacoma Community Collegehttp://www.tacomacc.edu/thegallery
Sept. 2009, 2006, 2005, 2004, Fine Art Show, Western Washington State Fair, in Puyallup, WA. Best of Show award 2009http://web.me.com/pathaase/Pat_Haase%2c_Sculptor/Little_Old_Lady.html. Judge for sculpture, 2010.
Pat Haase Artist Statement
The human body has sustained my attention and interest throughout my life. I started on the outside, sewing theater costumes, and my own clothing; then moved inside with a 25 year medical career as an Internal Medicine Physician, who also taught Yoga. In the past dozen years I have turned to Sculpture, creating realistic figurative sculptures.
As a physician I had opportunity to develop observational skills assessing physical and emotional information about a person watching them walk down a hallway, even before they reached the exam room. As an artist I want to create the nuances of posture in my figurative sculpture that communicate to the viewer’s empathetic awareness.
I want the posture, gesture, and facial expressions on my sculptures to convey personality, attitude, and mood and also to suggest a narrative about what just happened, or what may soon happen.
Patricia Haase
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