carrington news

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

AFTER CASTINE

Finally I'm back in the land of the living after another fantastic week at The IGMA School in Castine.

See, a really happy camper!

My students outpassed themselves this year and have given me so many new ideas for my own work, always the bonus and something to pass on to the next group. Not only that, they were a wonderful group that supported each other and got on really well.

Suprisingly, taking into account the economic 'crisis' everyone is in, we had one of the largest turnouts and the auction - proceeds to the school, scholarships and the tool pool - broke all previous records. Our thanks to the generosity of the punters. And the weather was good an added bonus.

OK, so the one thing I didn't get round to was taking my camera out of its case but we had the services of Heather Gilson and Dick Hardy taking photos at every turn plus Jeremy, our new professional video camerman, filming for the new promotional film to be available soon. Thank goodness, we can lip sink to the old one, now eight years old. Wonderful to see old friends but we all groan when we see ourselves.

Heather's pictures can be seen on http://www.onelovephoto.com/ click website then events and use the password igma (in lower case) Go look and see us all having fun

Here's a glimpse of some of my group hard at it.

Thankyou to you all, your hard work has got me asked back! Whoopee!!

Friday, 22 May 2009

Masquerade Papillon

Auction piece for The IGMA School, Castine 2009.

click picture for full view

And new figures fo sale exclusively at The IGMA School, Castine

Tudor Rose

Tudor Gentleman

Cleopatra

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Monday, 18 May 2009

URSEM AGAIN

Ursem again!!

Great news, Trees Beertema - who runs the best workshop ever and has been unwell - is now feeling much better and we're talking about a new double workshop in Ursem for August 2010.

So far its still in the planning stage but the idea is to do the three day workshop as before on sculpting followed by a two day one on costuming.

The costume one will be similar to the one taught in Denmark taking one classic period gown which covers all the aspects of costume skills for you to apply to any other fashion later. You will be shown how to create patterns and, during the class, will be taught all the sewing skills needed.

Students taking both classes can then dress the figure they've made, students taking just the costume class will be given a dressmaker's dummy to work on.