Free Art Demo with Toby Wayne Larson
Saturday November 16th, 1pm-3pm
Newport Visual Arts Center
Toby will demonstrate how he takes a block of clay and starts to push and form it into one of the imaginative faces seen in his current exhibition in the Covas Showcase. Come learn more about this artist and his unique style of working with clay!
Toby has spent his life creating art in some form or fashion; in high school he was introduced to oil-based clay by his art teacher and he was hooked! He spent the next two decades working on expressing himself thru clay and fine tuning his sculpting skills. His primary subject matter is figurative sculpting with an emphasis on faces which are sculpted mostly from his imagination. Once the piece has been fired in the kiln, he uses a process called sawdust firing, in which the piece is placed in a fire pit, covered with sawdust and other materials then set on fire creating interesting marks and color shifts in the finished pieces. Toby’s style reflects a mixture of rough, aggressive sculpting textures, accompanied by the burns and scaring of the fire.