OPEN FIGURE SCULPTURE GROUP, with Life Model

Contact: 301 633 2858, or 443 764 5364 by cell phone call, or text message, or contact: sculptorBradP@sculptorBradP.com to arrange a visit, or to enroll in a class or open group. Message Board below seems to have issues. Calendar is general information on classes available, days and times vary.

OPEN FIGURE SCULPTURE GROUP (with Life Model)

This ongoing open studio session meets once a week to study the figure in sculpture. The cost of the model is shared among participants, with a minimum of five artists required to hire a live model. Multiple open groups are scheduled throughout the week—please call to arrange participation.

No instruction is provided in the open group. All levels of experience are welcome. For instructional classes, please see the Sculpture and Drawing Class descriptions and Google Calendar.

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Format & Posing

• Each session runs 4 hours (day) or 3 hours (evening).

• The first meetings focus on short poses (5–40 minutes) to choose a final pose.

• Once chosen, the long pose continues for several months (generally across 12 or more sessions).

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Tuition

• Standard Rate: $280 for 7 sessions
  – Day: 4 hours per session
  – Evening: 3 hours per session
  (≈ $40 per session)

• Discount Rate (for current students enrolled in an instruction-based sculpture class): $231 for 7 sessions (≈ $33 per session).

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Materials

Participants bring their own supplies.

• Allowed: drawing media, aqueous-based mediums, non-toxic oil mediums, non-sulfur plastelene, wax-based clays.

• Not allowed: water clay (due to dust and debris).

• Recommended: Chavant NSP Soft Red Brown, Chavant Le Beau Touche HM, or classic clay modeling wax.

Studio provides: wheeled sculpture stands, easels – Please refer to Figure Sculpture Class, and the Relief Sculpture Class descriptions of use of studio supplies, equipment, and materials. 
Participants provide: easels, boards with countersunk screws for armatures, tools, and plastelene.
Armature construction guidelines and supply lists are available upon request from P Brad Parker.

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Extra Studio Time

Students currently enrolled in a paid instruction course receive one free weekly studio session (without model and without instruction) to work on class projects. These optional sessions are not transferable or reschedulable.

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Participants will have a visual access to a unique and extensive collection. There are Anatomical Models, and European Female, Male Skeletons available for reference, some of which were produced in Germany from the earlier 20th century: dissections cast from life into hand painted plaster – a series of four levels of the head / neck – from surface to deeper level structures, and a plaster hand painted anatomical torso; anatomical models of various scale, plasters from N.Y.C. full body in sections of dissection from life, as well as European Antique Sculpture Plaster Casts, and Anatomical scale Figure Plasters.

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More advanced classes available. Parking is free and plentiful .

Contact: 301-263-0324 – Cell Phone, 410-225-3546 – Studio / Home Phone

Email: sculptorBradP@sculptorBradP.com

Mr. Parker is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where he studied for six years.

Mr. Parker studied concurrently at the Frudakis Academy of Fine Art at which time he received a National Sculpture Society Merit Scholarship. Later he studied in Europe in the first half of the 1990s.

Private Sculpture Studio, Drawing & Sculpture Classes, By Appointment – Open Drawing & Sculpture Group Sessions, Commissioned Portrait Bust Sculpture, Fountain Sculpture, Figure Sculpture, & Relief Sculpture Compositions. Private Gallery of exhibited sculpture, by appointment only.
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