Monday Aug 30, 2021 Friday Sep 3, 2021
MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 2021 TO FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
Brookgreen Gardens
Murrells Inlet, SC
Campbell Center Sculpture Studio
$650 plus materials and model's fees. For registration information, click here.
Navigating a Portrait Commission Without a Model, with Wesley Wofford, FNSS.
This five-day intensive workshop will focus on the business and art of a portrait commission. It will simulate portrait sculpture commissions where the subject is unavailable, be it a historical or posthumous work, or a specific situation where the model is inaccessible. It will include client interactions, contracts, budgeting, and historical and reference collections. We will use live models, life-casts, and other resources to “fill in the gaps”, applying foundational knowledge of underlying structural anatomy. We will also focus on composition, embedding narrative, and imbuing emotional resonance. Each participant will build an armature and sculpt a portrait bust with oil-based clay. Teaching methods will include brief lectures and discussions, a guided tour of historic examples within the Brookgreen collection, as well as armature building and sculpture demonstrations showing a variety of clay modelling techniques. This course is appropriate for beginning or advanced students of sculpture, and each participant will receive instruction based on his specific skill levels.
Wesley Wofford displayed an artistic talent at an early age. He enrolled in Valdosta State University’s BFA program on a competitive art scholarship, but after several years of study, decided to leave for Hollywood, CA to work in the motion picture industry creating hyper-realistic people, characters, and animals in sculpture. His interest in advanced translucent silicones led him to develop his own formulas and techniques which catapulted him to the forefront of the makeup effects industry. Wofford has worked on over 75 motion pictures and television shows, including A Beautiful Mind, Hannibal, Batman and Robin, The Rock, Collateral, and Vice. He has personally worked with Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Julia Roberts, Will Smith, Robin Williams, and Russell Crowe. Wesley has been featured in magazine articles and television, and has received many awards, including an Academy Award and an Emmy. In 2002, he moved to the North Carolina mountains with his family to pursue fine art full time. He still works on the occasional film but spends most of his time on public and private commissions as well as pursuing his own compositions. He is a Fellow in the National Sculpture Society, holds Signature status with the Portrait Society of America, and is an elected member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Portrait Sculptors Society of the Americas.
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