• Introduction-Intermediate
  • Sculpture

Employing the classical approach, students will develop their sculptural and observational skills. Students will learn about armature building, materials and tools for sculpting. This course will follow a step-by-step approach to figure sculpting and will allow students to develop their skills while studying a specific body part at a time and the entire body.  Students will work from direct observation using classical plaster casts of anatomical figures, the human skeleton, and then move to the life model. Each body part study will be broken down into simple stages of Mass conception and/or Ecorche (anatomy) with an emphasis on proportion, planar structure, bony landmarks, muscle groups and points of origin and insertion.

This introductory level course is suitable for beginners and intermediate sculptors. This course covers studies in the human figure; a nude or partially clothed model will be used.


Spring 2021: 8 weeks Tuition: $355 + Materials Fee: $60 + Model Fee: $80 = Total: $495

Summer 2021: 8 weeks Tuition: $355 + Materials Fee: $60 + Model Fee: $80 = Total: $495


PLEASE NOTE:  Due to COVID 19, special policies and regulations will apply to all IN-PERSON courses at TSA. Students must be in agreement with these health and safety regulations and TSA policies in order to enrol.

Notes: Florian Jacot is a visual artist who has been teaching at the Toronto School of Art since 2009. As well as instructing at TSA, Jacot has been teaching figure sculpture, artistic anatomy, and figurative drawing and painting since 2004 at such schools as Max the Mutt Animation School, Artist 25 Studio, Centennial College and Sheridan College. Jacot works traditionally in fine arts and does freelance work digitally for the film and gaming industries. His work has been exhibited on several occasions in shows and galleries. In 1999, he received an award from The Sculpture Society of Canada for two of his sculptures.
* This course is not currently open for registration

What you will learn

  • Armature Building
  • Sculpting with clay: tools and techniques
  • Human Proportions
  • Sculpting the human form
  • Simplifying the figure into geometric forms and structural planes
  • Establishing bony landmarks and building up the Anatomy
  • 3D gesture, flow and harmony
  • Sculpting surfaces details

Materials to Bring

Please keep your receipts to all purchases incase you need to return any materials.

All materials are provided and covered by the Materials Fee. Students may wish to bring an apron and their own tools. TSA has a large selection of tools to provide to students but during COVID shared tools will be kept to a minimum. Disinfecting before and after each use is required.