This week-long workshop is a crash course in quick figure sketch in clay. Each student will sculpt at least four complete sketches, which will be fired and kept by the students. Across the five-day workshop, you will sculpt in a variety of timeframes from 20 minutes to two days. You will practice the fundamentals of working in clay with hands-on instruction and demonstration from our instructors, learning the best techniques to build the figure without an armature in a variety of poses with different clay bodies. In the shortest sketches, you will learn the basics of sketching a figure in clay by considering gesture, structure, volume, and proportion. As the week progresses, we will prioritize speed and efficiency to create larger and more finished figures that are naturalistic while maintaining a dynamic freshness in mark making. By the end of the workshop, you will have four sketches of different scales and finishes that will be dried and fired by our instructors, in house. The first day will be 20-minute sketches with frequent poses changes to learn the process of thinking and building volumetrically. The second and third days will be a different model and pose each day, with students completing one-day sketches each day. The fourth and fifth days will be the same model and pose, with students dedicating the whole of the two days to a more finished or larger scale sketch.