****This is a two-day workshop. Meetings are on Fridays, February 13 and 20 | 7 – 9 pm****

Learn the process of creating dynamic images using various light sources to paint light onto images of objects and/or people. Included are hands-on demonstrations and in-depth instruction on light painting.

Students need a digital camera with manual setting and the ability to shoot at an extended shutter speed of over 15 seconds, plus a tripod for the first day.

Instructor will send a list of objects to bring to the first class.

Sculpt your own masks and figurines in clay. Learn to enhance the aesthetic and structural qualities. Students will be given the option of using stains and glazes.

Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Work on modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated.

Professional sculptor David Cumbie guides students as they create life-size busts. Students learn techniques for capturing accurate proportions of the head and a variety of facial features.

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.