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Visiting Artist Series
Brent Sumner
Darjit! Concrete Garden Sculpture Workshop
Instructor: Brent Sumner
Visiting Artist Brent Sumner is back with a fun and creative workshop to create large, free form garden sculptures. The Darjit!: Concrete Garden Sculpture Workshop begins with a demonstration and then individual practice at using Darjit — a sculpting compound created by this artist — for free-form sculpture. It is a 100% recycled plaster product that is environmentally friendly, lightweight, versatile, very easy to use and fantastic for large-scale work. Darjit allows for a wide variety of effects, including embedded mosaic patterns, impressed patterns, textured finishes and hand-crafted fine details. Techniques for creating typical wire netting and steel bar skeletal forms for large sculpture will be demonstrated; plus, ecological forms that can be made from recycled material such as buckets and old furniture.
Students can come with an idea or two of a project in mind or they can be spontaneously inspired. The workshop takes students through the steps to complete a sculpture for their garden, courtyard or deck. Brent Sumner will help each student with technique and construction approaches for their individual designs and toward completion of the sculpture that they will take home.
Students should arrive prepared for outdoor class sessions by wearing weather appropriate protection (including weather changes), such as sunhats and sunscreen.
For more info on Brent Sumner and Darjit, see: www.sculptureparty.com or www.darjit.com
To Bring List
Lunch
Gloves-Tight fitting smooth gardening, latex or vinyl for plastering and leather for working with mesh
Wire cutters, pliers
Offcut of ply, old blanket or drop cloth to work on and take your sculpture home
Warm clothing-sunscreen-hats
Marbles, mosaic pieces, stones, shells, trinkets, metal, sheet metal, found objects: if you want to incorporate these into your sculpture
Recycled form if required i.e.: old chair, polystyrene, buckets, preferably not wood
Clay working tools
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Sessions
3 Day, Friday 6pm - 8pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 - 5 pm
Level
Any
Cost
$245
Materials
$10-80 according to size of project, payable first day of class
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Date | Register |
October 14 - 16
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