Witch’s Garden Guardian: Crafting Faces of the Otherworld

Summon the Spirit of the Season: Sculpt Your Own Witch's Garden Guardian. As the veil thins and the wheel turns toward Samhain, step into the enchanted studio and awaken ancient energies through the art of clay. In this day-long workshop, you'll sculpt a powerful guardian spirit—a Green Witch, Forest Crone, Horned God, or Green Man—to watch over your garden and channel the rhythms of nature, death, and renewal. Guided by ceramicist and creative Diane, you'll learn to breathe life into clay using traditional hand-sculpting techniques. Whether you carve a wrinkled woodland witch, a shadowy stag-faced god, or a leafy forest familiar, your plaque will be a sacred symbol of protection and seasonal magic. What You'll Learn: How to build a simple armature to support your clay face Techniques for sculpting witchy, mythical, or naturalistic facial features Ways to add symbolic adornments—antlers, leaves, vines, crystals, feathers, or bones Tips on refining your sculpture and giving it rich personality. This is more than a craft—it's a spell made solid, a face in the earth, and a companion to your sacred space.