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Course Information

Description: Tandem Teachers Pat Lillich and Connie Smith take their mutual regard for each other's work to the next level! Join us as we cross-pollinate two of our favorite techniques to create beautiful, ethereal articulated paper wings for special projects!
Media Category: Mixed Media
Course Type: Interactive (refer to the FAQ page for full descriptions of each course type)

Course Format: Technique
Course Begins: September 15, 2022 - Ongoing
Course Duration: less than a week (if diligent)

What will Students learn? Students will sculpt feather textures, composite feather clusters into wing forms, mold with 2-part mold putty, and cast articulated wings in paper.
Instructor/Students interaction: Answer questions via emails, “Live” Instruction (eg: Facebook Live, Zoom), Private Facebook Group/Community Room
Class Size: Max number of students - No Limit
Skill Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Youth (Age), All levels welcome
Required skill(s): Manipulating clay and putty and tools; manual dexterity; timing

Supplies and tools: SupplyList-TT-PatLConnies-Wings.pdf
Downloads: PDF

Course Curriculum

    1. Promo Video, in here too, if you need it.

    2. Tandem Teachers Begin: An Early Conversation

    3. Supply List PDF

    4. Our Part of the NIADA VDMS Special September Event Calendar (Sept 15-25) --ADD LINK

    1. Lesson 1: The Point of Departure: Pat's Cast Paper Feathers Course

    2. Lesson 2: Connie's 'Butter-Scraping' Technique in its Original Stoneware (from Connie's Raven Course)

    3. Lesson 3: Exploring Materials; Pat demos various Clay Types

    4. Lesson 4A: Connie Follows up with Plasticine demo

    5. Lesson 4B: Some Notes on Tool Variations and Their Effects on Process

    1. Lesson 1: Pat's Ethereal Wings and 'Easy-Eye-Balling-It' Way of Mixing Mold Putty

    2. Lesson 2: Connie's 'OCD Method' of Putty Mixing, + her 'Dolly-Parton-Wig' of the Wing World

    3. Lesson 3: Connie's 'Bluebird Wing Redux' Mold Set

    1. Lesson 1: Pat's Take on Wiring the Cast Paper Wing for Posing and Articulation

    2. Lesson 2A: Pat's 'BJD-Style' Ball-and-Socket Joint Adaptation for an Articulated Angel Wing

    3. Lesson 2B: Slotting Mechanics for Pat's 'BJD-Style' Ball-and-Socket Joint Adaptation

    4. Lesson 3A: Connie's Cloth 'Shoulder-Socket Wedge' and the Cast Paper Wing as its Newest Layer

    5. Lesson 3B: Pigmented Cast Paper Wings, Part One; Bluebird

    6. Lesson 3C: Pigmented Cast Paper Wings, Part Two; Bluebird

    7. Lesson 3D: Final ColorWays on Cast Paper Wings, Part Three; Bluebird

    8. Lesson 4A: Anthro Raven Wings, Cast in Pigmented Unryu Paper

    9. Lesson 5: Angels, Bluebirds, Ravens and Beyond...

    1. Lesson 1: Pat's Approach to Coloring Tengucho + Similar Fine-Weight Papers

    2. Lesson 2A: Special Event Zoom, September 17, 2022, Part 1

    3. Lesson 2B: Special Event Zoom, September 17, 2022, Part 2

    4. Lesson 3: Special Event Zoom, September 20, 2022; Connie demos Cast Raven's Wing

    5. Lesson 4: Coloring Tengucho while it is lying on flat surface

    1. Relevant Links and Pages for Your Consideration

About this course

  • $55.00
  • 27 lessons
  • 10.5 hours of video content

Instructors

Pat Lillich

Mixed Media - Air dry clays - Polymer Clays - Resin - Papers

Pat Lillich just likes to play - ever since her father gave her some scraps of wood, a hammer, nails and a bunch of springs to play with in the garage beside him. Figuring out how to make something work evolved into trying to figure out why her clay figures just didn’t look like those in the museums. Both endeavors look to be lifelong obsessions.

VISIT: Pat Lillich Portfolio

Connie Smith

Ceramic & Air-Dry Clays - Wax - Mixed Media

A third-generation artist, I’ve sculpted clay and experimented with basic hand-sewing techniques since early childhood. I studied Ceramic Arts and Printmaking at the University of Memphis, and took intermittent night courses in Animation at NYU during a decade in New York City. I have been an Artist Member of the National Institute of American Doll Artists since 1996, having taught many live workshops through NIADA’s Dollmaking School, and served on the Board since 2015. My style incorporates anthropomorphic character hybrids, and endeavors towards eco-friendly, sustainable practices with materials, which I try to encourage in my students. Welcome!

VISIT: Connie Smith Portfolio

Courses by Pat Lillich and Connie Smith