Introduction to Simple Mold Making and Casting in Silicone

This course provides visual artists and sculptors with a hands-on introduction to silicone mold making and casting — one of the most versatile techniques for reproducing three-dimensional forms. You will learn to work directly with platinum-cure silicone to create flexible molds of original objects or sculptures, not intricate ones, and then cast them using materials such as resins, plaster, and/ or white cement, depending on your preference.
By the end of the course, you will have the fundamental skills to incorporate mold making into your studio practice. Whether to edit your work, explore multiples, or experiment with material transformation as part of your creative process.


Additional Information:
What to Bring (Materials List)
- Molding: Mold Star 16 Fast (Smooth-On)
- Casting depends on your preference: Smooth-Cast™ 326 (Clear Amber resin), Plaster, or White Cement
- Sculpted Clay (Sulfur-free)
- Mixing Sticks
- Mixing Containers
- Vinyl or Rubber Gloves (NO LATEX)
What we provide
-Ease Release™ 200

Open to all levels

Sculpture: Beyond the Portrait

This class is open to both beginner students and experienced portrait artists who want to develop a more nuanced facial awareness.

Working 3/4 to full scale in water-based clay from a live model, participants will gain an understanding of the structure that evokes feelings and emotions.
The course will explore the syntax and notes, including the push and pull of forms, beauty, youth, age, contours, and line, which will be incorporated and studied.
The history of the face in artistic and sculptural contexts will also be discussed.

The finished and dried works can be kiln-fired at an added cost.

Open to all Levels

Color Intensive Workshop

In this 3-day workshop, students will learn techniques for mixing colors, from highly saturated colors to more muted colors and everything else in between. This will improve students' understanding of color mixing and structured mixing workflow, which will add clarity to their own painting process.
We will be creating color combinations as a resource that students can refer to when doing their own paintings. We will also analyze how certain artists throughout history used color to express harmony and vitality. Students will come away mastering basic understanding of color mixing and its inherent visual impact.

All painting mediums are welcome.

Open to all Levels

This class is open to both beginner students and experienced portrait artists who want to develop a more nuanced facial awareness. Working 3/4 to full scale in water-based clay from a live model, participants will gain an understanding of the structure that evokes feelings and emotions. The course will explore the syntax and notes, including the push and pull of forms, beauty, youth, age, contours, and line, which will be incorporated and studied. The history of the face in artistic and sculptural contexts will also be discussed.

The finished and dried works can be kiln-fired at an added cost.

Open to all Levels

Exploring Pastels

n this class students will learn to use pastels and explore this versatile and exciting medium. General formal artistic qualities such as composition, color theory and tonal values will be addressed, as well properties specific to pastel such as blending, layering, mark making and texture. We will have a model to work from every other week, and on non- model class days students will investigate subjects and themes such as still-life, landscape, portraiture and abstraction while learning the fundamentals of working with pastels. All levels of experience are welcome.

Open to all Levels

Color Theory in Oil Painting

This course is an examination of color theory through the practical application of mixing paint on the artist palette. The structure of this course is designed to present the theory of color while helping artists build specific color relationships in the foundational stage of the painting process. Students will negotiate the contradictions between color as theory and its physical realities by working directly with the material of oil paint.

The course will help students to develop their comprehension and control of color wheel organization, made of the three primary subtractive color contrasts- Tone, Hue and Saturation. Study will also include complementary pairs as both opposites and gradients. Mixing scales of color transitions, harmonies and discords. Properties of oil paint; painting mediums, including variations in viscosity, extending or reducing drying time.

We will also study how palette organization translates into pictorial elements of painting through study and analysis of master paintings. How conditions of light, atmosphere, mood, location, time, content and meaning are all extensions of color relationships worked out in the mixing on the palette before the painter applies color to canvas.



Open to students of all skill levels, although prior painting experience is highly recommended.

Open to all Levels