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Welcome and Foundations for Arts and Crafts Enthusiasts

Course Orientation and Safety Essentials for Log and Steel Sculpture

Materials 101: Selecting Logs and Steel for Sculpture

Tools and Techniques for Combining Logs and Steel

Hand and Power Tools Essentials for Mixed-Media Sculpture

Joinery Strategies: Connecting Logs and Steel

Design, Planning, and Prototyping for Arts and Crafts Enthusiasts

Design Principles and Scale Planning

Finishes and Longevity: Indoor vs Outdoor Sculptures

Guided Build: Your First Log-and-Steel Sculpture

Project Setup: Base, Upright, and Connection Points

Shaping, Assembly, and Finishing Workflow

Knowledge Checks

Quiz: Safety and Workspace Readiness

Quiz: Materials Selection and Preparation

Quiz: Tools and Joinery

Quiz: Design and Finishing

Quiz: Guided Build Quality Check

Wrap-Up and Feedback

Course Summary and Next Steps

Learner Survey: Your Experience and Outcomes

Build your first mixed‑media artwork by marrying the warmth of natural logs with the strength and elegance of steel. Foundations of Log and Steel Sculpture: Build Your First is a hands-on, beginner-friendly course designed for arts and crafts enthusiasts who want to move from inspiration to a completed tabletop sculpture. You’ll learn how to choose and prepare materials, use essential hand and power tools, and create reliable connections that respect wood movement and protect steel from corrosion. Along the way, you’ll master safe shop practices, clean layout and measuring, and a clear workflow for shaping, joining, and finishing. The course blends design principles with practical techniques: plan your form and balance, prototype with low-cost mockups, and then shape your log and steel element into a stable, gallery-ready piece. Whether you’re aiming for organic curves or crisp modern lines, you’ll leave with the confidence to design and fabricate your own 2–3 ft sculpture, plus the knowledge to scale up for outdoor installations. No welding experience is required; we focus on mechanical joinery and heat-free methods suitable for small studios and home shops.

Foundations of Log and Steel Sculpture: Build Your First

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            <p>Foundations of Log and Steel Sculpture: Build Your First is a hands-on journey for arts and crafts enthusiasts who want to combine the warmth of wood with the strength of steel into a cohesive, gallery-ready piece. You’ll explore how organic log forms converse with clean, linear metal elements, and how to design for balance, stability, and expressive contrast. From the outset, we establish a safety-first studio culture—PPE, hazard awareness, and smart workspace setup—so you can confidently carve, grind, drill, and assemble. Along the way, you’ll learn how to judge material scale, calculate weight, plan a stable base, and achieve clean joints and a durable finish that respects both materials.</p>

<p>The course begins with orientation and safety essentials, then dives into Materials 101 to help you select species, understand moisture and movement, prepare logs, and evaluate steel sections, scrap, and corrosion. You’ll build tool fluency—drawknives, gouges, angle grinders, drills, and measuring tools—along with maintenance routines and dust/spark management. Joinery strategies focus on practical, repeatable methods: lag screws, through-bolts, hidden pins, steel collars, and wood-to-steel interfaces that allow for wood movement while preventing staining and corrosion. In design and planning, you’ll use sketches, mockups, and cut lists to visualize form, set the center of gravity, plan base plates and anchoring, and consider transport and installation. Finishing covers oils, waxes, varnish, patina, and barrier coats for indoor and outdoor longevity. The guided build ties it all together: selecting a log and a steel element for a 2–3 ft tabletop sculpture, shaping and dry fitting, assembling with allowances for movement, and executing a thoughtful finish. Knowledge checks reinforce safety, materials, tools, joinery, design, and quality control, and the course wraps with resources and next steps—so you can extend your practice with larger works, kinetic elements, or lighting while maintaining craftsmanship, stability, and conceptual coherence.</p>
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