In this three hour workshop, participants will learn about and practice destructive sculpting methods in foam while creating a custom carved foam headstone! Foam sculpting is a forgiving medium, leveraging a variety of easy-to-use tools to achieve fantastic results. The class will cover tool usage, tips and tricks, and an overview of safety hazards related to the materials and tools, and will result in participants completing their own foam headstone to take home, just in time to decorate for Halloween!
Participants will receive a blank foam sheet and spend some time looking at references, brainstorming, and sketching their ideas directly onto the blank, including decorative elements, text, and weathering. After a safety and tool usage briefing, attendees will begin sculpting! The remaining time will be dedicated to allowing participants to work towards their creative vision with guidance and support from the instructor. Participants will refine their headstone using progressively finer tools and techniques. Finally, participants will paint their headstones with a base coat of textured paint, leaving their work ready for finishing touches and weathering once the paint dries!
Please note that paint can take several hours to dry; attendees are welcome to place their headstone on cardboard to take home wet, or leave the headstones at the makerspace to dry and pick them up another day.
Our shop will be open after the class ends; stick around to take a tour or work on a project! Participants who wish to work on more headstones outside of the workshop can visit during our open shop hours and purchase a day pass for $10 or monthly membership for $25. For more information, please see our website: https://www.open-workshops.com/join
