Institute of Mosaic art is proud to host Sherri Warner Hunter for this week long intensive. Hunter is the author of Making Concrete Garden Ornaments and Creative Concrete Ornaments for the Garden. This is a rare opportunity to learn from a concrete master.
Make your dreams concrete! This intensive course will cover a variety of concrete forming techniques including armature building, simple casting, modeling, and polymer fortified concrete systems. Participants will create three projects; a foam and polymer fortified concrete sculpture, a faux rock and a cast bowl form that can be used for a variety of applications. Each project utilizes a different concrete recipe and forming techniques. A variety of surface treatments will be demonstrated and discussed with plenty of opportunity for experimentation. Bring sketches of concrete projects you'd like to realize for discussion and images of your work to share. No previous experience with concrete is necessary.
Visual presentations, demonstrations and handouts will provide inspiration and information to take with you to utilize in your own studio.
PARTICIPANTS SHOULD BRING:
* Sketch or notebook
* Apron or wear work clothes
* Ruler, yardstick, carpenter's square
* Sharpie Markers
* Scissors
** Angle cutters, lineman pliers, and needle nose pliers
** Straight cut aviator shears
(** These are good basic tools for participants to have for future sculpture and metal working projects.)
* Small pointing trowel
* Steel trowel (flat rectangle)
* Plastic spray bottle
* Yellow (cleaning type) latex gloves
* Leather work gloves
Instructor will bring some tools for student use if participants don't have their own
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