Instructor: Alicia N. Ponzio
Date: 19 - 23 August 2024
Cost: 950 euro
Location: Hendrik van Wijnstraat 10, 1065 AS Amsterdam
This August 2024, Alicia N. Ponzio will offer her figure modeling workshop curriculum at Figura. Join us for Designing the Pose, with a focus on the seated figure. A seated pose offers new possibilities for expression and some inherent challenges that are different from standing poses. Alicia's curriculum places emphasis on exploring the gesture and its meaning, as well as developing one's method and problem-solving skills.
Program:
The week will begin with several quick clay sketches from a live model in order to explore various poses and discuss the compositional elements of each pose. Students will be encouraged to participate in selecting poses. The group will discuss each pose in terms of content and aesthetic value as well as expressive qualities. After selecting the pose for a longer study, the group will spend the remaining 4 days developing the pose as a clay model. Alicia will introduce her "Three Stages of Figure Modeling", a framework for helping students to prioritize information and develop a coherent method for describing the human form in clay. Students will work on a wire armature in oil-based clay at a 60cm scale.
Teaching methods will include brief lectures, step-by-step demonstrations, group discussions, and individual feedback. Alicia will work alongside students throughout the week.
Instructor
Alicia N. Ponzio (United States, b.1974)
Practical information
This workshop is open to beginning, intermediate and advanced students.
Please bring to the studio: lunch, apron, notebook or sketchbook, pens or pencils and drawing tools as preferred
This course includes:
✓ observation from a life model
✓ working in small groups
✓ instruction by a classically trained sculptor
✓ individual guidance in English at your own level
✓ demonstrations illustrating the instructions
✓ armature and oil-based clay
Cost: 950 euro
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List of images (left to right, top to bottom)
Alicia N. Ponzio, tin type image by Greg Shea, 2023.
Demo in progress from previous Seated Figure workshop at Brookgreen Gardens 2023.
Reverie and Abundance, 2023.
Example of quick sketches from previous Seated Figure workshop at Brookgreen Gardens 2023.
Alicia demonstrating at TRAC conference in 2014.
Example of quick sketches from previous Seated Figure workshop at Brookgreen Gardens 2023.
Clay of Reverie and Abundance.
Demo in progress from previous Seated Figure workshop at Brookgreen Gardens 2023.
Reverie and Abundance, 2023.