A note to our students: To ensure that the workshop will not be canceled, we kindly request that you sign up as early as possible. Please note that if the minimum number of students required is not met three (3) weeks before the first day of class, the workshop will be canceled. However, we offer a full refund in the event of a canceled workshop, so there is no monetary risk for you. Please take some time to review our cancellation policy.

About the Workshop

Skill level: All levels are welcome.

Materials used: Clay

Overview:

During From Wire to Whinny students learn time-tested techniques for creating an equine sculpture. These techniques may then be applied to any animal. Working from the inside out, special attention is paid to the skeletal structure upon which all movement is dependent. Muscle groups are introduced individually so that the “lumps and bumps” that are observed in life or in photo references become meaningful landmarks rather than arbitrary shapes. We will also have the beautiful horses of Bluebird Ranch as models! Thus, students will cycle through Lynn’s “Five R’s: Rough In, Round Out, Refine, Reality Check, and Repeat” throughout the workshop experience.

Although Lynn’s sculptures tend to be highly detailed, these techniques will serve well an artist who works more abstractly or loosely. In From Wire to Whinny, Santa Fe, students will be creating a 1:7 scale sculpture, about 1/15th of life-size (i.e. your horse sculpture will be about 9” tall at the withers).

A supply kit will be required (and supplied) for this workshop. Once you have registered, Lynn will send you a PayPal invoice for approximately $125 for the armature, 6 lbs of clay, and a 50-page workbook. You will be able to keep this kit and take it home with you. If flying, the armature can be securely packed and checked through TSA or you can ship it to your home. Additional tools you will need to bring with you are in the supply list link below.

This will be a hands-on workshop with the Coopers’ four horses. You will be able to do some groundwork grooming and measuring with a real horse. All fees for the live horse models are included in the price of the workshop.

"Some of my favorite memories are of workshops. Not only is it a privilege and an obligation to pass on what I have learned from my teachers, Sam Savitt, Dr. Deb Bennett, Veryl Goodnight, and Cammie Lundeen among others, but it's a heckuva lot of fun to be with kindred spirits."

~ Lynn A. Fraley ~