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Making realistic “faux food” is an essential skill in every Prop Makers’ toolkit. Practice a variety of techniques and discover commonplace materials used to create lifelike food props, resilient enough to last a production run.
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For stage, cosplay or Halloween, venture into gore makeup. Discover special effects techniques such as: scars, lacerations, burns, bullet holes and bruising (in various stages of healing)
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In this four day intensive artistic welding workshop discover the excitement and satisfaction of crafting in metal. Explore how to manipulate steel by bending, welding and texturing it to give life to your creative expression.
Learn and expand on these skills:
- Train in the safe and effective use of power tools and equipment;
- Explore the metal-working basics: welding, cutting, grinding, shaping and fitting;
- Practice and get creative with MIG welding;
- Discover Oxy-Acetylene gas brazing techniques; and
- Learn how to shape and hammer metal, including using jigs and applying heat.
This is not a ticketed course. This is an introductory artistic welding workshop meant to challenge students in the fascinating world of metalworking. All sessions of Artistic Welding cover the above techniques, enabling participants to heighten their skill levels with imaginative projects.
The low student-to-teacher ratio in each course ensures instruction is geared to the participant’s skill level and experience. Please indicate your related experience when you register.
Instructor: Clarke Ellis
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In this four day intensive artistic welding workshop discover the excitement and satisfaction of crafting in metal. Explore how to manipulate steel by bending, welding and texturing it to give life to your creative expression.
Learn and expand on these skills:
- Train in the safe and effective use of power tools and equipment;
- Explore the metal-working basics: welding, cutting, grinding, shaping and fitting;
- Practice and get creative with MIG welding;
- Discover Oxy-Acetylene gas brazing techniques; and
- Learn how to shape and hammer metal, including using jigs and applying heat.
This is not a ticketed course. This is an introductory artistic welding workshop meant to challenge students in the fascinating world of metalworking. All sessions of Artistic Welding cover the above techniques, enabling participants to heighten their skill levels with imaginative projects.
The low student-to-teacher ratio in each course ensures instruction is geared to the participant’s skill level and experience. Please indicate your related experience when you register.
Instructor: Clarke Ellis
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Practice the following behind-the-scenes skills in this Prop Making Workshop:
- Explore the range of materials and techniques used in fabricating props;
- Create a variety of “faux food” props that have the resilience to last a production run;
- Work from a concept drawing to create an 8 to 10 inch bust of a Greek god;
- Choose your own theatre god and create a concept, or work from the instructor’s drawings;
- Discover how to block out shapes, find the form, then refine it into a finished sculpture;
- Carve and mold features in your sculpture using modeling tools;
- Build a small armature out of wire and tinfoil. Use an oil-based polymer clay that will be fired at a low temperature;
- Materials and techniques can be used at home without any special tools or equipment.
As you build projects to take home:
- Learn from daily demonstrations using a variety of materials and techniques;
- Train in the safe and effective use of power tools and equipment;
- Learn to create props in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
KEY INFORMATION
The low student-to-teacher ratio in each course ensures instruction is geared to the participant’s skill level and experience. Please indicate your related experience when you register.
Registration fee includes materials for this Prop Making Workshop.
Instructors: Deb Erb & Matthew Burgess
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Discover the “blocking” technique as it pertains to blocked hats. The one-week course, Millinery, the art of hat making, also accommodates participants who wish to make fascinators or soft-form hats.
Classes are held in a professional Millinery Studio where participants will have access to special equipment and materials of the craft. A tour of the hat collection at the Stratford Festival Warehouse is also included.
Explore and expand on the following skills:
- Analyze and interpret various hat shapes;
- Properly take and interpret head measurements;
- Draft a custom hat pattern and mock-up based on your chosen design;
- Discover new techniques in working with different materials and hat-making equipment;
- Explore traditional millinery materials, ie, felt, buckram, and modern materials such as Fosshape and Wonderflex plastic;
- Discuss and share sources for millinery materials;
- Construct a custom hat shape; then learn to cover, decorate and line the shape with fabrics and trims to suit your taste;
- Produce a finished hat which fits a specific head size;
- The hat is yours to keep!
Participants are asked to bring design ideas/inspirations (magazine cutouts, printed images from the web), paper and fabric scissors, measuring tape and straight pins. Previous sewing experience is helpful but not necessary.
Instructor Monica Viani
Workshop runs Monday – Friday 9 am- 5 pm