Modeling the Horse and Other Animals

Modeling the Horse and Other Animals

Workshop | Available

All Levels
4/14/2025-4/17/2025
9:00 AM-4:00 PM on Mon Tue Wed Th
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$700.00
$150.00

Modeling the Horse and Other Animals

Workshop | Available

Rod is known for his expressive animal sculptures based on solid proportions, but not derived from extensive measuring. Students will learn Rod’s techniques for modeling hearts and souls into their animals, as well as fast effective armature building. Specializing in building armature and simplifying proportion, Rod’s teaching is also beneficial to two-dimensional artists seeking depth in learning. All references will be from photos, models, and studying other art. Students will have the option of choosing the animal they would like to sculpt and can expect to finish a medium-sized clay model, suitable for bronze casting during the week. Fellow of the National Sculpture Society, Zullo has years of experience teaching sculpture. Many of Rod’s students have advanced in their careers because of his mentoring and enthusiastic approach to living as an artist. www.rodzullo.com

Rod Zullo

Traveling, living, and observing, has exposed Rod to a variety of art styles, mediums, and messages. I strives to see beyond the literal and narrative, to create work that is contemplative, and expressive, yet conscious of traditional fundamentals. Rod's goals are to see the abstract forms in nature, and express these forms in sculpture by marrying the components of discipline, and creativity, to express a concept rather than an image. Rod's reputation has been cemented with credibility by winning multiple awards from the National Sculpture Society, and election to Fellow of the National Sculpture Society(NY). Rod Studied Studio Arts at Montana State University 1991-94, Served apprenticeships with Floyd Tennison Dewitt, FNSS of Bozeman, MT, and Kent Ullberg, NA, FNSS of Loveland, CO. Rod is both on the Teaching Faculty of The Scottsdale Artist School, and The Campbell Center For The Study of American Sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley's Island SC. He was also instrumental in helping start the Equine Sculpture Program at The Culver Academy, Culver Indiana. Rod teaches numerous workshops every year, and is in the permanent collections of The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, The Leanin' Tree Museum, Boulder, Colorado, and Brookgreen Gardens Museum of American Sculpture, as well as in private collections around the world. Currently Rod's work is represented in Galleries in Bozeman, MT, Jackson, WY, Scottsdale, AZ, Santa Fe, NM, Dallas TX, Charleston, SC., St. Augustine, Fla., Park City, Utah, and Beaver Creek CO., Rod's work has been featured in the book "Sculptors of the Rockies", Southwest Art Magazine, Big Sky Journal, The Bozeman Chronicle, Western Art and Architecture, Fine Art Connoisseur, Western Art Collector, and Pulse Magazine. Rod is avid outdoorsman, and currently lives in Bozeman,Montana, and has a studio/gallery in The Emerson Cultural Center, in historic downtown Bozeman.