WORKSHOPS: PORTRAITS
 

FINE ART BRONZE FOUNDRY TECHNIQUES TAUGHT BY PROFESSIONAL FOUNDERS
 

PORTRAIT CLASS W. BARNEY HODES

Barney Hodes is one of New York's high profile figurative art teachers, known for creating a high energy atmosphere in his classrooms while teaching life size, or over life size full figure sculpture. His students consistently turnout good work. Mr. Hodes currently teaches at the Art student's league of New York and
the National Academy School. He founded the New York Academy of art with Francis Cunningham where
he taught from 1983 - 1986. Barney is a professional artist who works in his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
His media are Bronze, Cement and Plaster.


This class will set up armatures, block up, and sculpt a portrait bust in clay. Individual critiques will be provided to each student on their work with some class discussion. The class will work from a live model.

Course description by Barney Hodes:

What are the steps that you have to take when you sculpt a portrait?

  1. Start with the tools that you need to do the job.
  2. Make an armature that will keep your portrait standing up.
  3. Learn the major planes of the head and how to construct them.
  4. Plug in to information about the anatomical foundation of the face – the skull – and its musculature.
  5. Find out what form concepts apply to the particular face you are working from, and evaluate the relevance of measurements.
  6. Deal with personal elements such as age, physical condition, and familial characteristics.
  7. Balance mass against detail, and work out how the different textures of hair, eyes, lips and cartilage affect the surface of the portrait.
  8. Figure out when you're finished.



10 Students
4 Sessions - Fridays in March (1:00 - 4:30pm)
$ 380 		Portraits

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Workshop ID:   Barney Hodes Portraits - #4
Tuition:   $380
 
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