Modeling the Portrait in Clay for Beginners with Johanna Schwaiger

In this course World-renowned renowned Austrian Sculptor Johanna Schwaiger will teach you how to model/sculpt a life-size portrait sculpture using water-based clay. Johanna’s step-by-step instructions will leave nothing out of the process. Johanna will teach you what materials you need, how to block in your portrait, how to grow your forms from the inside-out, how to ensure accuracy and likeness in your work and how to resolve and render form. You will develop a sense of the underlying structure of the head and neck.

1. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 1 With Johanna Schwaiger

World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model. You’ll learn important methods and procedures using various sculpting materials and tools.

2. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 2 With Johanna Schwaiger

World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model.

3. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 3 With Johanna Schwaiger

World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model.

4. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 4 With Johanna Schwaiger

World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model.

5. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 5 With Johanna Schwaiger

World-renowned sculptor Johanna Schwaiger joins New Masters Academy, bringing with her over 20 years experience of teaching and producing figurative and portrait sculpture. In her first series, she demonstrates her method of sculpting a female portrait from a live model.

6. Sculpting a Female Portrait in Clay | Part 6 With Johanna Schwaiger

In the final installment of Johanna Schwaiger’s first series at New Masters Academy, she makes decisions about the composition of the portrait. She sculpts a distinct set of plane changes at the sternum to distinguish the figure from the classical bust structure. The neck muscles and trapezius is sculpted, the eyes finished, and the brows.