Day Five: We will resume studying as usual at 9:00. After an initial warm-up exercise, we will assess progress from the day before. Depending on a number of factors, at this point and over the course of the day, I may encourage students to start their sculptures over. This is not a critique or failure of the sculpture, but an assessment of what can be learned from either continuing versus restarting. As Romolo maintains, it really takes little time to sculpt a figure, and the most important take away from this workshop is learning how to train your eye to see. Every time you restart a sculpture, it goes faster and is better than the time before. The fifth day is a stock-taking day, assessing what has been learned and evaluating what could still be mastered by the conclusion of the program. Everyone's trajectory by now will be different and the training will take on a more individual relationship, with each participant getting significant personal instruction to guide their sculpture's progress. The group will work for five hours, with regular breaks, until lunchtime at 14:00. At 16:00, we will meet up at Berta Walker Gallery (208 Bradford St.) and take Provincetown's Friday Art Walk. A weekly event held every Friday evening in the summer. Art lovers and artists stroll the narrow streets of the village visiting the numerous galleries that line the waterfront culminating with a visit to the Provincetown Art Association Museum. After the tour, there will be an optional dinner at a nearby restaurant with a prix fixe menu for those who wish to join. Participants are free to break away from the group and pursue their own interests at any time after the morning workshop is over.
Day Six (Final Day) As usual, we will get to work at 9:00. The last day starts with a few exercises to loosen everyone up. The biggest issue facing participants at this point is usually not to get to "tight" trying to perfect details of the sculpture, rather than focus on the big picture of the artwork. Romolo will work one on one with the participants, helping them to maintain their overall artistic vision so that they don't obsess about details and create a harmonic and clear artistic vision of a completed sculpture. At this point, each student's work will be very different and very personal. That is how it should be, everyone has a different truth about creating. A successful workshop allows you to turn that truth into something you can see and share with the world. The group will work for five hours, with regular breaks, until lunchtime at 14:00. At 15:30 we will visit a small local foundry where Romolo casts his bronze sculpture. For those who wish to have their own finished works cast into plaster or bronze at the end of the workshop, we will help make arrangements for the casting with the foundry. All financial arrangements and costs for casting the work are the responsibility of the individual artist and not included in the cost of the Art Retreat package. But Studio Romolo will do its best efforts to facilitate the process. After the foundry visit, we will break so that participants can change for our al fresco Farewell dinner on the dunes of the National Seashore ocean wilderness park. At 16:00 we will depart over land in all-terrain vehicles to reach the "back-shore," the most remote part of the Atlantic ocean coastline where we will dine and watch the sunset surrounded by the pristine beauty of nature. After dinner, we will return to Studio Romolo as the drop off point.