David Cemmick’s Animal Sculpture Course

I am attending a 5 day animal sculpture course at the Art Academy in Barcelona. My brother David is teaching the course as he’s been sculpting animals for many years having started his career as a taxidermist so he knows animals inside out- literally! There are 5 of us taking the course as it is a trial run and the Academy is officially closed for the summer months with a few specialised courses still running. From 9.30 until 3 on our first day we drew a live rabbit until lunchtime and then began sculpting rough versions of the bunny (called Carmelle) in clay. Tomorrow we are going sketching in the zoo with the intention of picking an animal and acquiring enough reference material with sketches, photos or video, to make a sculpture of our chosen zoo inhabitant or Carmella

for the rest of the week. Here are some photos from our first day. Drawing a rabbit from life is a lot harder than I expected so check out my blog tomorrow to see how we get on at the zoo and which animal I decide to sculpt!