What You Will Learn

This course teaches the basics of sculpting with non-hardening clay from the wire skeleton to the details on the finished piece.

Keywords: clay, sculpture, texture, hand-crafted, dragons, non-hardening clay, wire skeleton

 

Design For 

Grade 5 - Grade 8

 

 

 

Course Overview

6 - 10 students	1.5 hours per class
Eastern Time Sunday 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. EST  Pacific Time Sunday 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. PST	6 - 12 classes / meet once a week Part 1: 1/10/2021, 1/17/2021, 1/24/2021, 1/31/2021, 2/7/2021, 2/14/2021 Part 2: 2/21/2021, 2/28/2021, 3/7/2021, 3/14/2021, 3/21/2021, 3/28/2021

 

This course page is for Part 1 (the first 6 lessons) registration.

If you are interested in Part 2 (the latter 6 lessons), please click here. 

We highly recommend taking both Part 1 and Part 2 courses for the best learning outcome!

 

 

 Lesson

Unit 1. Introduction

Unit 2. Human Armature

Unit 3. Human Body

Unit 4. Human Head

Unit 5. Cat/ Dog Armature

Unit 6. Cat/ Dog Body

Unit 7. Cat/ Dog Head

Unit 8. Dragon Armature

Unit 9. Dragon Body

Unit 10. Dragon Wings

Unit 11. Dragon head and details

Unit 12. Wrap up and review

Course Projects

Project 2: Creating a wire and/ or wood “skeleton” of a person

Project 6: Sculpting the cat/ dog body with aluminum foil and clay

Project 11: Sculpting the dragon/ monster head and adding details

 

 

 

Materials

*Prepare your own materials

• Non-hardening clay (such as Plasticine or Plastalina)

• Wire

• Toothpicks (or other small sharp objects to make details with)

• Thin pieces of wood or metal for the skeleton (like a cut-up coat hanger or cut up chopsticks)

• Aluminum foil 

• Wire cutters

 

 

 

 

Instructor

School of Visual Arts, BFA in Cartooning | Illustrator, Writer

Hello, my name is Jaye. I am an illustrator and writer. I have had my art published in two children's books and several comics anthologies. I have also produced many comics, illustrations, and prose stories that have been self-published. I earned a BFA in Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts and a BS in Biology from the City University of New York.