Next year's workshop!

Normally, we hold off announcing our fall workshop until spring but but interest in next year’s workshop has been more vigorous than ever before! Rather than keep everyone waiting we have selected next year’s dates. Amazingly, half of the seats are already booked.

We are pleased to announce our 2020 Fall Sculpture Magic Workshop to be held October 21-23. 2020. There are a limited number of seats, available on a first come - first serve basis. We anticipate this workshop will sell out very quickly and this is the only workshop we plan to host next year.

The sculpting workshop is designed to light your creative fires! We explore how we come up with our ideas, and what tools and materials we use to bring them to life. By breaking everything down into simple steps, we will discover that anything is truly possible. Our workshops are designed to take the mystery out of our craft and make it fun. Those who take the workshops are fully immersed in our creative world for three intensive days.

Our studio is located in a rural area and surrounded by breathtaking scenery. Our award winning shop would aptly be described as an artist's theme park with wall to wall eye candy at every turn. Take all the pictures you want, ask any questions you want and we'll do our best to provide the answers.

The sculpting workshop is definitely a hands-on event. Bring work clothes and work boots if you can. We’ll supply everything else. You’ll weld, attach lath, mix our special formula of concrete, apply cement, and sculpt it. You will work on a variety of samples individually and in small teams. You will also construct an armature and then sculpt a wonderful piece of your own using sculpting epoxy. We want you to try your hand at every task we do in our shop, learning the process of exactly how we do our projects.

We’ll spend some time touring the highly themed Hazelnut Inn (next door) to show how the same skills you learn in our shop are applied on a much larger scale. On top of that, you will witness our current shop projects in all stages of completion. It is a lot to squeeze into three days, but it is our goal to share as much as we possibly can of what took us more than forty years to learn ourselves.

It’s going to be a fun and fast paced three days. The theme is visual storytelling. It’s all about using our imaginations to do things we have never done before.

We’d love to see you at the workshop!

For more information go to www.imaginationcorporation.com/sculpting-workshop or drop me an email at dan@imaginationcorporation.com

Humble beginnings

Last night I received a phone call from a fellow who was a retired teacher. He had been digging through a box of old treasures and came across three very old drawings I had done in my eighth grade class in the 1966/67 school year. He took the time to do a search of my name on google and easily located me. A little more searching found my current phone number. On his reminding me of the drawings I remembered him asking for them so many years ago. They were done as part of a writing assignment and he thought them impressive enough to add to his collection. The drawings bear my signature of the time and 2-B, the letters of my home classroom. The drawings brought back plenty of memories from those junior high school days. It is fun to remember on occasion. It was the next year I did my first commercial art (painting store windows for Christmas) and discovered a sizeable wage could be made doing what I loved to do for fun.

The good stuff

The two gas pumps for Syl’s Mini Golf are coming along quickly and looking fine! The painting crew are down to the final glazes and the painting of the small details. We’ve sure enjoyed this project so far! There’s two features complete, one almost ready, two in progress and one more to start this coming week.