Posts by Bridgette
Classes In My Art Studio! Sign Up- Space Is Limited Sculpting/Writing/Drawing
CLASSES IN THE ARTIST’S STUDIO
It has been years since I have held classes in my Houston, Heights area art studio. I have decided to provide three classes for the summer/fall. If the times do not fit with your schedule, please let me know, it will help me to decide on future dates or revise my teaching schedule. The descriptions are below and to make your purchasing experience easier, I have created links for online payment of classes. You can purchase the class using your credit card online. Please note the links below will send you to my shopping cart website for my God’s Word gift line- where these classes have been added to the product line. You are also welcome to purchase classes for someone else as a gift. I will send a gift certificate. Please notify me personally after payment so that I can provide you with a gift certificate. There is a 20% refund on your sculpting class if you have someone sign up with you and both payments are made at the same time. And as usual, I always have one space open for those who want to take the class and cannot afford to do so. Please contact me personally about this. LOCATION: All classes are held in my Heights area studio. Directions will be provided upon sign up.
LEARN HOW TO SCULPT A PORTRAIT
Don’t let this class intimidate you. It is an exciting process of learning and sculpting a portrait. When you are done you will be able to take these tools and use them on sculpting your own loved ones. Each participant will sculpt a portrait bust in clay. Space is limited.
DATE: 4 Saturdays beginning September 11th, 18th and 25th October 2.
TIME: from 11:00-3:00.
Bring a sack lunch as we will break for lunch.
Cost of the class —$175.00 which includes materials.
( If you should have your own sculpting tools that you would like to bring be sure they are marked with your name. ) This class is for beginners or intermediate, advanced students are also welcome. Deadline for registration is September 4th. Adults and mature youth are welcome.
LINK TO PURCHASE THIS CLASS ONLINE
Class payments can also be made with pay pal
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DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN
This is an old favorite. It is incredible to see the difference between the before and after picture of this class. Anyone can learn to draw with this class, those already having “talent” will increase their ability. This class fills up quickly and space is very limited.
DATE: 4 Wednesdays September 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
TIME: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Cost of the class —$75.00 which includes materials. Deadline for registration is September 4th. Adults and mature youth are welcome.
LINK TO PURCHASE THIS CLASS ONLINE
Class payments can also be made with pay pal
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WRITING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN
Want to get back to writing? Feel you have a writer in you that needs to get out? This is a very therapeutic class. It is not about editing but learning to get it out on the page.
DATE: 4 Mondays September 6th, 13h and 20th and 27th.
TIME: 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Cost of the class —$65.00 Deadline for registration is September 4th. Adults and mature youth.
LINK TO PURCHASE THIS CLASS ONLINE
PAYMENT- Payment can be made through the artists gift site shopping cart. Follow the links above. Or through PayPal. If you should have any difficulty please contact the artist through the contact form at https://creativesculpture.com
If you prefer to mail your payment you can do so by sending a check to PO Box 10562 Houston, Texas 77206. If mailing the check please contact the artist to let her know you are interested and to see if space is available.
Back to Business!
A short hiatus this summer for several things–
Last month I took the plunge and had surgery on my right hand. Over the years traditional sculpting had taken a toll on my thumb. ( I used to boast that I had the strongest thumb muscles of anyone I know.) The surgery was done at the Brown Hand center by a wonderful doctor. I’m thrilled that they have given me my career back. My hand was pretty much useless for the couple of weeks that it healed, and there is still swelling, but I am working much better than I did before surgery and will be 100+ percent in no time at all. So I am back in the studio getting clay under my nails.
Then it was off to Vermont for a graduate school residency. I was also presenting a lecture on writing.
I’m back in the studio working and looking forward to also getting back to zbrush.
Away At College
Sorry for the lack of posts. I have been traveling and then in residency for the last two weeks. For those who may not know I am in a graduate program at Goddard College in Vermont. I have another blog where I document my perpetual learner experience. It can be found at http://www.perpetuallearner.blogspot.com be back into the studio and office in the next day and will be getting back to work. Can’t wait to create artwork for this semester.
A Writer’s Prayer
The Writer’s Prayer
By Sandy Tritt
Open my mind, Lord. Grant me the talent to write with clarity and style, so my words go down rich and smooth, like fine wine, and leave my reader thirsty for more.
Open my heart, Lord. Grant me the sensitivity to understand my characters—their hopes, their wants, their dreams—and help me to confer that empathy to my reader.
Open my soul, Lord, so I may be a channel to wisdom and creativity from beyond my Self. Stoke my imagination with vivid imagery and vibrant perception.
But most of all, Lord, help me to know the Truth, so my fiction is more honest than actuality and reaches the depths of my reader’s soul.
Wrap these gifts with opportunity, perseverance, and the strength to resist those who insist it can’t be done.
Amen. ~ Sandy Tritt
© 1999 Sandy Tritt. All rights reserved. www.InspirationForWriters.com
The Writer’s Prayer may be reproduced if this entire copyright permission notice and web address (InspirationForWriters.com) is included. If you’d like a glossy ormagnetic copy of the Writer’s Prayer for yourself, or multiple copies for your writer’s workshop or conference, please email Sandy. There’s no charge as long as the shipping address is within the US.
New Posts To Come!
Sorry for the lull in posting. I took the plunge to have that needed hand surgery. Will be good as new very soon. Looking forward to sculpting and writing again without pain.
Keep Creating And Running Into Brick Walls!
I’m working in zbrush and trying to learn how to translate what I know from Mudbox and traditional art into Zbrush. Now, many people say that Zbrush is very hard to use. I would probably agree, but it is also because it does so much. I can see these two programs, added to the technology of 3d printing and milling that I have been studying and wrote about in the mudbox book, as giving me so many more tools in my traditional process. For example, I now can create portraits in stone, and do architectural elements quite easily. It is thrilling. I have been working on a tutorial to create this fancy looking building. The tutorial can be found on the pixologic website. But I have added a thread with all of the videos and the complications and problems that I find with the process on our Digital Sculpting.net website. I’ll keep the thread going as I progress with this tutorial. I’m including a picture of my column.
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A little Something I’m Working On
It seems like I’m working on a lot of little somethings. But what happens is I get going and then get stuck and have a question so I have to stop on it until I figure out the answer. This is a bas relief. My thought is that it could be made into a cameo.
More Quick Sketches But In Zbrush
Some more quick sketches but this time in zbrush.
Another Armature- A Scary Digital Tree- Work In Progress
I have been trying to get a handle on zbrush. This is a zsphere of a tree. A zsphere is like the armature that the clay will rest on. The scary tree is a portion of a bigger project for an illustration. Much more to do. Long way to go. But I thought I would share it.
A New Piece Of Art- This Time Digital Art
I have been working very intensively with Zbrush since finishing up the Mudbox book. (Sculpting in the computer is much easier on my hands, and a welcome change until my hand surgery. ) I have wanted to really get into it. So here is my art nouveau fish. I have tried him in several different materials. Still have not painted him. But what fun it will be to play with him some more.
Now to try to paint him or put him in a scene.