Baroque Putto Online Course
Follow Athar Jaber through the complete carving process: from transferring the model and establishing the primary forms to articulating the facial features and refining the finished sculpture.
This self-paced course develops not only your technical ability, but also your understanding of sculptural form, structure and depth.
$500
About this course
This online class will mainly consist of high-quality instructional videos that demonstrate the whole carving process of the little head in detail. Across more than 32 hours of detailed video instruction, Athar demonstrates the complete carving of a Baroque putto head in stone.
The process is shown closely and extensively, allowing you to observe how each decision is made: how measurements are transferred, how the principal masses are established, how forms are progressively subdivided and how the anatomy and expression of the face emerge from the stone.
Throughout the demonstration, Athar explains the principles behind his decisions and guides you through each stage of the work. Illustrated worksheets and physical reference casts complement the video lessons, helping you apply the same process in your own workspace and at your own pace.
Rather than offering a shortened demonstration, the course gives you sustained access to the realities of the carving process; including its corrections, refinements and gradual development.
Following the step by step process, the course will enable you to carve the Putto in your own workspace and according to your own tempo.
It’s like you’re in class, except that you will be able to engage according to your agenda without missing out on anything!
What you will learn
- How to translate a three-dimensional model into stone
- How to establish and progressively refine the primary forms
- How to measure accurately and transfer reference points
- How to understand the principal structures of the face
- How to carve the eyes, nose, mouth and hair
- How convex and concave forms interact
- How to move from geometric construction to organic form
- How to refine and finish the carved surface
Course information
- Format: Self-paced online course
- Video instruction: More than 32 hours
- Practical commitment: Varies according to experience and working pace
- Level: Intermediate
- Instructor: Athar Jaber
- Access: Lifetime access, including future course updates
What's included
1. Welcome
2. Suggestions on how to get the most out of this course
3. List of required Tools
4. Stone specifications
5. Spheres Principle
6. Steps Principle
7. Highest Point Principle
8. Convex vs. Concave
9. Peeling the Onion
10. Stages Outline – Front View
11. Stages Outline – Side View
12. Stages Outline – Top View
13. Illustrated Diagrams and structure of the Mouth
14. Illustrated Diagrams and structure of the Nose
15. Demonstrations of applied Principles
16. Video Lesson 1: Tools overview. – 17 min.
17. Video Lesson 2: Preparing the Stone. – 5 min.
18. Video Lesson 3: Drawing the Grid. – 55 min.
19. Video Lesson 4: Measuring the Height. – 12 min.
20. Video Lesson 5: Transposing the Gridlines onto the Stone. – 20 min.
21. Video Lesson 6: Marking the Baseline. – 5 min.
22. Video Lesson 7: Attaching the Stone. – 24 min.
23. Video Lesson 8: Carving the Baseline. – 54 min.
24. Video Lesson 9: Carving the first Hemisphere – 422 min.
25. Video Lesson 10: Carving the first Subdivision. – 161 min.
26. Video Lesson 11: Carving the second Subdivision. +/- 90 min.
27. Video Lesson 12a: Carving – Stage 4a. – 68 min.
28. Video Lesson 12ba: Carving – Stage 4b. – 97 min.
29. Video Lesson 12c : Carving stage 4c. – 125 min.
30. Video Lesson 13a: Carving stage 5a (the hair). – 163 min.
31. Video Lesson 13b: Carving stage 5b (the face 1). – 121 min.
32. Video Lesson 13c: Carving stage 5c (the face 2). – 82 min.
33. Video Lesson 14: Carving the left eye. – 128 min.
34. Video Lesson 15: Carving the right eye. – 60 min.
35. Video Lesson 16: Carving the nose and mouth. – 82 min.
36. Video Lesson 17: Carving finishing the face. – 70 min.
37. Video Lesson 18: Finishing the mouth. – 63 min.
Who is this course for
This course is designed primarily for students with some previous stone-carving experience who want to develop a more advanced understanding of figurative sculpture.
An ambitious beginner can also undertake the course, but should be prepared for a demanding project requiring patience, sustained concentration and independent work.
The course is especially relevant to carvers who want to move beyond copying surface details and learn to understand sculpture as an organised sequence of masses, planes and anatomical structures.
Baroque Putto Online Course
Carve a complete Baroque putto head while developing a more rigorous understanding of measurement, facial anatomy and sculptural form.
- 32+ hours of detailed video instruction
- Six-stage plaster reference set
- Illustrated worksheets
- Lifetime access and future updates
$500