✓ Sculpt a life-size portrait in water-based clay, then let your imagination take over! Let your imagination run wild! Under Poppy's guidance, you'll have the creative freedom to continue working with the life model while also shaping your portrait into something entirely yours. Whether that means adding a bust, sculpting something like medusa-like hair, or introducing abstract elements, the second week is yours to have fun and play.

✓ Work from a life model: no more than 3 sculptors per life model

✓ Be part of a small group: no more than 6 sculptors in attendance

✓ Watch demonstrations and receive individual critiques

✓ All materials included and take your sculpture home. If you have a specific idea in mind, let me know ahead of time, and I can create a bespoke armature for your project. Alternatively, you’re welcome to bring your own armature or adapt the one provided at the start of the second week.  

✓ Experience in Drawing in Space or sculpting from life recommended

• Working from life

• Blocking in the head, neck and shoulders

• The structural highway

• The profile

• Comparative proportions in profile

• Directional changes in profile

• Spatial depth

• Structural solidity

• The features

• The shoulder girdle

• Developing gesture

• Sculptural Likeness

• Surface Resolution

✓ Experience in Drawing in Space* or sculpting from life recommended

*Find out more about Drawing in Space; Theory and Practice of Figurative Sculpture by Robert Bodem and Poppy Field.

Arrive: 9.30-9.45

Model Session: 10.00-13.00

Lunchbreak: 13.00-14.00

Model Session: 14.00-17.00

Battersea Business Centre, Lavender Hill, London, SW11 5QL