Animals and Creatures

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class is ideal for individuals with prior experience working with clay. This course will help students to push their work to a more advanced level in the creation of sculptural pieces referencing animals and/or creatures. Those pieces could become realistic and figurative or whimsical and abstract. The class will provide a more in-depth exploration of how to understand the anatomy, proportion, texture and details on the figures, using clay and embellishment with various materials, to translate ideas into three-dimensional form. Students will be encouraged to draw and/or build three dimensional sketches/maquettes on a regular basis to assist in the conceptualization their final works.