Limited Enrollment Weekly Classes
and Weekend Intensives
at Honey Lane Studio in Amado, AZ
(30 min. south of Tucson)
Portraiture - Bas-relief - Mixed Media Assemblage - Basic Mold-making & Casting
"Sculpture instructor Valarie James is very inspiring, encouraging, knowledgeable, yet critical enough to help improvement."
Lee Lovell
Green Valley, AZ
Portraiture/Figure
Define planes, shape, form and balance. Capture the essence of your subject through gesture and likeness. Develop an intuitive approach that lends spirit and presence to your work. Explore your signature style. Prior experience helpful but not mandatory.
Model fee included. Materials fee extra - water-based clay, armatures and simple sculpting tools available for purchase or bring your own. Materials list supplied with registration.
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Bas-Relief Sculpture
Translate your favorite painting, sketch or photograph into a treasured 3-D bas-relief sculpture. Use an easy and fun layering technique to build up a relief, bevel the planes to catch the light and deepen the "color". We will use oil based plastilina and a few key sculpture tools. No prior sculpting experience necessary. No model. Specs and materials list provided upon registration.
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Mixed Media Sculpture; Assemblage
Create a 3-D shrine/shadow box using elements from your life that you wish to manifest, strengthen, and honor including relationships, abundance, creativity, skills and knowledge, travel, health, home, friends and family. Mixed media, fiber, found objects, encaustics, paints, transfers. Overview of Sonoran Desert materials including Chugata mesquite resin, Cochineal natural dye, and Prickly Pear. Purposeful play and no limits to the imagination in this workshop. Specs and materials list provided upon registration. Back to Top
"Balance and Abundance"
A blessing shrine for us all: Sculpted hand cast in stone holds a rosary, as it both gives and receives. Inner box layered with rice, draped with pouches of mixed Mexican and American coin. Silver cup set in arroyo sand holds milagros. Scavenged wood box, rose madder encaustic.
I've taken classes with Valarie for the last three years. The most important thing I've learned is how to bring my sculpture to completion by making molds and also learning casting.
Hattie Wilson
Nogales, AZ
I Basic Mold-making and Casting for
Bas-relief tile/plaques (Block molds)
co-taught with sculptor Antonia Gallegos
Make a pour mold of your favorite bas-relief plaque or tile. The first day includes an overview and easy to follow demonstration. The second day you will construct a simple mold box and pour your block mold out of rubber. The third and final day, you will cast your piece in plaster and leave with a ready-to-use mold and finished casting. Demonstration of inexpensive finishes for cast stone and plaster included. Specs and basic materials list available upon registration. Rubber and plaster included in workshop fee. Extremely limited enrollment in this workshop. Preference given to prior sculpture students.)
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Pulling rubber block mold off a new plaster cast
II Basic Mold-making and Casting for table-top sculpture: (Brush-on molds)
co-taught with sculptor Antonia Gallegos
Brush on a rubber glove mold over your figure or small portrait head and lay-up a 2-3 piece brush on plaster shell mold. The first day includes a materials method overview and demonstration. The second day you will brush on your own mold and let it set up overnight. The third day you will create a plaster shell mold to hold the rubber. The fourth and final day you will cast a finished piece in plaster. Demonstration of inexpensive finishes for plaster and cast stone included. Specs and Materials list available upon registration. Extremely limited enrollment for this workshop. Preference given to prior sculpture students. Mold-making I not required as a prerequisite, but definitely recommended.
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