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    • The Origins of Artistic Expression – Part 1 ‘Things looking like other things’
    • The Origins of Artistic Expression – Part 2 ‘The making of marks’
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    • Model-making Techniques Course
      • ‘reviews’
      • Special ‘consultation’ sessions
    • Mouldmaking and casting course summary
      • Special ‘consultation’ sessions
      • Full course description and daily schedule
      • ‘reviews’
    • Scale Model-making Course at CSM
    • Technical drawing for theatre, film or television designers
    • Mouldmaking and casting for model-makers
      • Introduction and provisional daily schedule
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      • Figure modelling reference images – caryatids, atlantes and ‘hemis’
      • Expressive modelling
      • Female figure resources
      • Male figure resources
    • Technical Drawing for theatre designers
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    • casting
      • ‘quick view’ comparisons of casting materials
      • fillers for resin
        • Common fillers for resin casting
        • Using plaster as a filler in polyurethane resin
        • Filling polyurethane resin with used tea/coffee
      • polyester resin
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      • polymer-modified plaster
      • polyurethane foam
    • constructing
      • ‘Palight’ brand foamed Pvc
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • Working with stencil card
    • metalwork
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
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      • alginate
      • Casting polyurethane resin into alginate
      • meltable vinyl
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      • silicone rubber
        • Recycling and filling/extending silicone
      • food-safe silicone rubber
      • ‘quick view’ comparisons of mould materials
    • shaping
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • List of sources for ready-made forms
    • modelling
      • Modelling wax
      • Super Sculpey
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
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      • Press-casting in Sculpey
    • surfacing
      • Creating surfaces with Kapa-line foamboard
      • Making relief patterning tools using Sculpey
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
      • Using standard black foamboard
    • painting
      • ‘quick view’ materials info
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  • Methods
    • Making realistic models
      • Main construction
      • Fine construction
      • Modelling and shaping
      • Creating surfaces
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    • Why make models?
    • Recommended tools for small-scale making
      • Introduction
      • Measuring and marking-out
    • Special surfacing methods
      • Printing patterns for scale wallpaper, curtains and carpets
      • Making relief patterning tools using Sculpey
      • Pressing decoration into foam, shaping and wire-brushing
    • Template drawings for furniture model-making
    • ‘White card models’ for film/tv work
    • common sizes of things
    • Making a wall
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
    • Modelling
      • Sculpting puppet hair
      • Modelling small-scale figures
        • Making the armature
    • brickwork patterns
    • Visual research
      • Recommended websites for visual research
      • Why not just Google?
      • Recommended books
    • Mouldmaking and casting
      • ‘Beginner’s Basics’ – mouldmaking and casting explained
      • Making a simple 2-piece silicone block mould for a puppet head
      • Making a small mould for a four-legged animal figure and casting in resin
      • Making a supported silicone mould for a life-size head and casting in fibreglass
      • Making hollow casts in open or ‘closed’ moulds
    • a quick guide to soldering
    • Working in scale
    • Visualization
      • Focusing the ‘mind’s eye’
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    • UK freelance model-makers
  • online course ‘reviews’
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    • General list of suppliers
    • Updated sources/prices of specific materials
  • Technical Drawing
    • Some of the principles of technical drawing simply illustrated – Part 1
    • Some of the principles of technical drawing simply illustrated – Part 2
    • Lexicon of subjects and terms
  • Thames Foreshore
    • Advice for anyone interested in beachcombing or mudlarking the Thames Foreshore
    • ‘Thames Foreshore Collection’ project log
    • Deptford: Upper Watergate Stairs, St George’s Stairs
    • Greenwich: Wood Wharf
    • Surrey Docks: Trinity Wharf (Surrey Docks Farm), Horn Stairs, Pageant Stairs
    • Rotherhithe: Globe Stairs to Pageant Stairs
    • Enderby’s Wharf ( Greenwich Peninsula )
  • Shaping styrofoam
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  • Gallery
    • ‘Dreambags’ 2000
    • ‘Faim de siècle’ multiple series 1997-2003
    • ‘Fruitrack’ 1993
    • ‘Natural Selection’ 1995
    • ‘Sweetboxes’ 1994-2000
    • Interactive sculptures 1993-1995
    • ‘ex ovo’ drawings 1997
    • ‘grasslands’ 2020
    • ‘throw-sculpture’ 2020
    • Digital work 2017-18
      • Thames Foreshore 2017
        • Part Two
      • Respect for the pixel 2018
        • Part Two
      • Dancers 2017
      • ‘Pettiportrits’ 2017-18
      • Archetypes 2018
    • ‘landscapes’ 1998
    • ‘biomorph’ drawings 2012
    • notes 2021

Dancers 2017

 

David Neat, digital study, created with PaintShop Pro and Procreate for iPad, 2017

Grand Jetee

 

David Neat, digital study, created with PaintShop Pro and Procreate for iPad, 2017

High Six

 

David Neat, 'WoodenTop', digital study created on PaintShop Pro and Procreate for iPad, 2017-18

Woodentop

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