Clay Doll Workshop W/ Sandra Storey

Clay Sculpture in Tagish.

Come and learn to express your self in clay. Tagish sculptor Sandra Storey will be teaching the basics of figurative clay sculpture exploring faces, hands and feet as well as animals and animal spirits.

Make your own creations in clay and then using natural materials like willow, leather and fibre

we will explore different methods of putting sculpted peices and natural objects together

to create your own unique doll.

Two days focus on sculpture and clay, sharing ideas and investigating materials.

Final day we will assemble the dolls and look at possibilities for decorating them.

No one is too old to be playing with dolls.

Bring your imagination.

Saturday April 7th - 1:30 – 8:00 pm

Sunday April 8th - 1:30 – 8:00 pm

Intensive in clay sculpture focussing on hands, feet, heads, bodies. Explore two different types

of clay. Students will make heads, hands, feet and other components for their own unique dolls.

Clay, tools and other equipment is provided. Wear old clothes.

The clay needs a week to dry and be fired to buisque temp. This turns the clay to stone.

next session All clay sculpture will be oxided before the next session.

Follow up finishing session:

Sunday - April 15th 11:00 am -4:00.pm.

Students will gather all the work and spend time putting together clay components with other

materials such as leather, wire, found objects and organics. They will also explore using water

based pigments to color the fired work

Everyone should leave with at least one finished doll. Students should do some

reasearch into their own ideas and to bring images with them to all classes.