The Foundation of Portrait Sculpture
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Sculptor Alex Manzanares offers instruction in classical portrait sculpture, drawing from his extensive studies in Florence and Rome. Over the course of four days, students will create a three-quarter life-size portrait in water-based clay while working directly from a live model. Through a focus on proportion, anatomy, and observation, students will learn how to measure in three dimensions and translate these relationships into a sculptural likeness. Manzanares will guide participants through every stage of the process—from blocking in and modeling the form, to refining features and applying expressive textures. The workshop concludes with instruction on properly hollowing the portrait for firing. manzanaresart.com
Alex Manzanares
Alex Manzanares is a realist artist whose current practice centers on drawing, painting, and sculpting. His artwork blends his classical training from Florence, Rome and Paris with contemporary aesthetics to create his distinctive interpretation. While his drawings and paintings challenge the boundaries of dimension by pushing form and depth, his sculptures endeavor to achieve presence. Negotiating color, composition, light and dark, his work explores the dialogue between the outer world and the inner world. In creating the work, he explores the thoughts, feelings, fears and desires of the personal experience and how they manifest in the social and environmental realm. This engagement with the artwork in its creation leaves an impression in the work that arouses emotional interaction.
His works are held in private collections in the United States, and Europe.
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