Relief of The Holy Family

Students will be painting a relief of The Holy Family. This course will teach students the techniques of 17th-century Spanish polychrome sculpture. This technique can achieve remarkable realism. Students will learn how to gild and paint provided sculptures using egg tempera painted on top of a previously gilded surface. Students will learn how to gild gold leaf on wood and plaster surfaces using traditional and modern techniques. The layer of egg tempera paint is then scratched according to different decorative motifs, with the process called “sgraffito” to reveal the gold underneath. The flesh and hair of the sculpture are then painted in oil colors with a glazing technique.

This week-long workshop begins with check-in at 4:30 PM on Sunday night. Dinner is served at 5:30 PM for students and instructors. Dinner is followed by a workshop introduction and conference which ends at 9:00 PM. Students are welcome to attend daily Mass at 9 AM. Hands-on instruction begins Monday morning after Mass.  The entire workshop ends Friday at 1 PM.

Private Room & Workshop – $1485.00

Shared Room & Workshop – $1335.00

These rates include daily breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

Commuter & Workshop – $1010.00

This includes daily lunch and dinner. 

A $100 materials fee is included in the cost of this workshop.

All materials used in this workshop will be pre-ordered and made available to students in the classroom by the instructor.

All other equipment and art supplies are the property of the Enders Island Sacred Art Institute.

Please call the office for more information: (860) 536-0565