Philippe Faraut demonstrates how to hollow a water-based clay figure sculpture in this 3 minute 45 second video. The piece used for the model is “I Don’t”, the last sculpture in his book Figure Sculpting Volume 2: Gesture & Drapery Techniques in Clay. Music by Madison Faraut.
This is a clip from the full-length 97 minute video Techniques of Sculpture: Hands & Feet. The tutorials for hands, feet, the arm and leg are companions to chapters 5-7 from Faraut’s book Figure Sculpting: Volume 1. The plaster casts for the female hand, male hand and male foot are also available as well as the redesigned finger tools. Music by William Boutwell.
This is a 4 minute 51 second edited segment from the artist’s full-length video The Art of Sculpting with Philippe Faraut Volume 3: Men. The finished sculpture of the laughing old man entitled Peach Cobbler also appears in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Clay. Narration included in full-length DVD. Music by William Boutwell.
Philippe Faraut created this 7 minute sculpting video tutorial to demonstrate how he models the hand in clay. At this size, this hand requires only minimal armature (a simple tube through the wrist). For this piece, Philippe uses the planes tool for the blocking in of volumes and the finger tools for shaping the knuckles, finger nails and tendons. Music by William Boutwell.
This is a 4 minute 51 second trailer for Philippe Faraut's Techniques of Sculpture: Geometry in the Clay Portrait. The main sculpture of the male planes head is available from the Reference Cast section of our online store. Narration included in full-length DVD in both English and French. Subtitles in English and Spanish. Music by William Boutwell.
This is a 3 minute 33 second edited segment from the artist’s full-length video The Art of Sculpting with Philippe Faraut Volume 3: Men. The finished sculpture of the cowboy also appears throughout Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Narration included in full-length DVD. Music by William Boutwell.
This 6 minute clip shows Philippe Faraut modeling the bust entitled The Art Critic. The finished sculpture appears in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. The last few seconds of the clip include footage of this new book while it was on press and then being flipped through from the back to the front closing on the cover. Music by William Boutwell.
This 3 minute 44 second video clip shows the artist transform a sculpture from alert and pensive to mentally unbalanced. Both the original sculpture Roman Senator and the final version entitled Ward 6 are analyzed in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Music by William Boutwell.
This video clip was created to show the artist’s two young daughters the potential effects of methamphetamines on the human face. One of the challenges was to represent the mental state associated with drug addiction; mostly emptiness and lack of stamina. Both the original sculpture of the young mother and the final version are discussed in Faraut’s book Mastering Portraiture: Advanced Analyses of the Face Sculpted in Clay. Music by William Boutwell.
This video clip was inspired by the original song composed by Music by Bill Boutwell. Using two different colors of clay Philippe depicts the likeness of the model and his alter ego.
This sculpting demo is an excerpt form the full length DVD Techniques of Sculpture: Torsos in Clay by Philippe Faraut. The process explains how to use two different approaches to modeling male and female torsos in water-based clay. One is the geometric approach for the female and for the male a more anatomical technique showing the origin and insertion for each muscle.
