Marg Culy in (foreground) and Rosemary Stead during the weekend workshops.
Marg Culy in (foreground) and Rosemary Stead during the weekend workshops.
A group of keen sculptors spent last weekend creating human sculptures from clay at Keirunga Gardens under the tutelage of Kay Bazzard.
In her experience, learning by doing is the best way to absorb the skills and methods with a tactile thing such as forming a figure out of clay,she says.
"It is important to me that the people who attend my workshops go away with the knowledge of how to create a sculpture in clay and that they could go on to make more, knowing how it is done."
Human sculptures at the workshop.
The challenge for most workshop participants, she says, is to make a figurative study which is in proportion and expresses a mood or pose they are after, usually a photograph of something they admire, which requires visual observation of anatomy, movement, features and expression.
All but one of the weekend's participants attended a Clay Bodies workshop led by Bazzard last month.
Half of them were Keirunga Potters members, two are portrait artists exploring working in 3D, and the rest were members of the public wanting to have a go at making a figure or a head in clay.
This was the third annual clay figure workshop run by Bazzard.
Due to demand she will be running another next month. For more info, telephone (06) 877 1182.
