Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.
3D Name Sculpture The first project I had my students do was a 3D name sculpture. This was the inspiration for the project (scroll down). I was very impressed with the outcome. My students' sculptures came out great - especially since it was the first project of the year. First I had my students type out their name using different fonts. I recommended they use thicker fonts that would make a better base. Next I had my students draw out the letters, sketching them lightly in case they needed to erase. I had them add designs in each letter. They then used markers to fill in the designs to create a bolder look. Afterwards they glued each letter to a piece of card stock (or file folder) to make each letter sturdy. I reminded them to position the letters on the card stock before cutting them out to make sure there was enough and not to waste the card stock, and then I had them cut them out. I had them build the structure using a glue gun (which worked very well).
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This is a super lesson to try with your young artists - it takes just a bit of prep and the results are so fun! You'll need craft foam, model magic, glue, scissors, pipe cleaners and small pieces of tagboard or railroad board. The inspiration for this lesson comes from the blog, Plastiquem. Before class, I used Elmer's glue to attach a small chunk of model magic to a piece of 5x5" square of railroad board. Due to time constraints, I pre-cut a bunch of shapes from craft foam (students can totally handle this step, but we were short on time) and put a pile of pipe cleaners (fuzzy wires) in the middle of each table. I showed the kids how to gently press the foam shapes onto the fuzzy wires. I made sure to explain that this step takes some practice and is a challenge - a gentle press works just fine and the wire will push through the foam when it's ready - I haven't found the right terminology for it yet, but all the kids eventually got the technique. It's wonderful for practicing those fine motor skills, patience and persistence! I left things pretty open-ended as far as how many foam pieces to add, etc. and the kids just ran with the concept and had fun building their sculptures!!
3D Name Sculpture The first project I had my students do was a 3D name sculpture. This was the inspiration for the project (scro...
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I usually start the year with kindergartners learning about and using lines. In previous years we have made line paintings and line sculptures with wire and pipecleaners. Another fun project we made was line windsocks by rolling up line paintings and adding tissue paper streamers. We’ve done line drawings (check out what my old blog used to look like before I moved it over to this website.) This year I was reminded by Cassie Stephens of a project I used … Read more... →
This lesson took ( 2 ) 40 minute art classes to create. Students learned about the artist Charles McGee and we discussed his artwork. We discussed how we’d be utilizing the elements of art, line, s…
This affordable Modular Sculpture Art Lesson is great for sculpting beginners It is easy to understand while teaching 3D fundamentals.
Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.
7th grade 3-D students finished up their clay cupcakes and were eager to begin their next project. We looked at the artwork of pop artist, Romero Britto. Britto is a painter and sculptor from Brazil who creates light-hearted, happy artwork using simple shapes, bright colors and lots of patterns. He took inspiration from Matisse and Picasso. Students looked at his artwork of animals and decided to create their own animal sculpture. Using Styrofoam, they created large shapes for the body. They had the option to create flat sculptures or make some parts of it rounded. After they created their form, it was time to plaster! We used PlastrCraft strips to completely cover the sculpture, making sure to smooth out all of the holes as best as we could. This would make painting easier. After the plaster was dry, students went in and added thick, black outlines around their sculpture using sharpie or black paint. Finally, it was time to paint! I really gave them a lot of freedom with the paint. As long as they had areas of solid color and patterns, they could do what they pleased. I reminded them to paint crisp edges and smoothly. Here are some of them so far
I am always doing that which I cannot do. In order that I may learn how to do it.
Evan R., 4-2 The fourth graders just completed one of my favorite lessons because I actually wrote it during my student teaching way way back in 2004! Speaking of student teaching, you should definitely check out my good friend Mrs. Susa's (she was my cooperating teacher for student teaching!!!) new blog from Lake Elementary!! Anyway, we made these awesome paper sculptures at Suffield after learning about the abstract sculptures of Frank Stella. We talked about abstract art and how it can be "about" something even though there may not be recognizable pictures in it. We looked at his sculpture Jarama II and played The Guessing Game over at NGA Kids. The kids really liked this neat web site! To make the sculptures, each student started with two 9" x 12" pieces of white tag board. We drew two symmetrical shapes with negative space in the center on one piece, and then two asymmetrical shapes with negative space on the other piece. The students carefully cut the shapes out and drew patterns on the fronts and backs of them. We colored with markers and then glued them together with twists and bends to make sculptures. If you try this lesson, be sure to tell the students to hold the areas they are gluing together for a loooooong time or else they pop apart as you try to move on with your next piece! Serenity S., 4-2 Eva H., 4-2 Brenna C., 4-1 Caleb F., 4-1
So what is going on in Art 2? Currently we are looking at the work and style of Rex Ray. If you are not familiar, Rex Ray is an artist/graphic artist who actively creates amazing design inspired artworks that focus on wonderful shapes, colors and patterns. His work is wildly vivid and interesting. His use of layers gave me the idea that his work could inspire a relief sculpture. He is also a real, living and breathing artist, who not only displays work in museums but also sells his work commercially to make it available to a wide range of people. Here a only a FEW of the great examples of Rex Ray artwork. I highly recommend googling his images because there is way more variety than what I can show here. This is my version of the art challenge that the students in Art 2 will take on. The goals for the challenge include two layers that would be considered background layers and then three layers (at least) that will be considered foreground layers. Planning sketches turn into a design, designs get traced and retraced onto cardboard and then the cardboard it cut. I make it sound realllllly easy but it is quite the process and a lot of thought and planning needs to occur. Once all the pieces are cut out we will add color and other patterns. Finally, we will glue the layers down to create a finished relief artwork. Check back soon to how the students of Art 2 tackled this art challenge!
If the coronavirus has you sheltering at home with your kids, this art and play guide will help promote learning while staying creative!
For this project, we will look at Jean Dubuffet. We will look specifically at his sculptures using the Hourloupe style. You and a partner will create a sculpture in DuBuffet's Hourloupe style. DAY 1- Intro Today we will look at a history of DuBuffet and take a look at his artworks. Here is a brief biography of DuBuffet. “French painter, sculptor, printmaker, collector and writer. He was temperamentally opposed to authority and any suggestion of discipline and devised for himself a coherent, if rebellious, attitude towards the arts and culture. For all his maverick challenges to the values of the art world, Dubuffet’s career exemplified the way in which an avant-garde rebel could encounter notoriety, then fame and eventual reverence. His revolt against beauty and conformity has come to be seen as a symptomatic and appreciable influence in 20th-century culture.” “Dubuffet's Hourloupe style developed from a chance doodle while he was on the telephone. The basis of it was a tangle of clean black lines that forms cells, which are sometimes filled with unmixed color. He believed the style evoked the manner in which objects appear in the mind. This contrast between physical and mental representation later encouraged him to use the approach to create sculpture.” “His primitive approach to art making, with its simple, childlike figures and bold, visually dramatic palette, has universal appeal and is instrumental in modern psychology and studies of mental development.” Examples of DuBuffet sculptures in the hourloupe style DAY 1 ACTIVITY After you have watched the videos, get a piece of paper and begin practicing the hourloupe style, following the directions in the vimeo video above. Today is a practice day, so work on trying to capture the hourloupe style in your artwork. DAY 2-3 Sculpture (Making pieces) After discussing Dubuffet and his artworks we will begin to create our own DuBuffet styled sculptures. 1. Look through the slides and the links below to gain some inspiration for your sculpture idea. 2. Draw 5-6 shapes on the piece of paper. Make your shapes large enough to fill the paper. 3. Cut out your shapes. 4. Draw the Hourloupe style drawings on each side of your pieces. Day 3-4 Sculpture (Assembling) 5. Put your pieces together by cutting small cuts into the pieces and sliding pieces together. Click here to find examples of making a "base" for your sculpture so it will stand. You cannot use glue or tape to put pieces together. 6. We will display your sculptures in the library after you and your partner take a picture of it on Artsonia Here are 3 links for you to look at some sculpture ideas for your project. Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 AR Standards: CR1.6.1 CR1.6.3 CR2.6.1 CR2.6.2 P4.6.1 R7.6.1
What better theme than ice-cream when summer vacation is just around the corner!? Enjoying our ice creams! Following our previous Shorty Pencil sculptures using plaster, I wanted to introduce my students to another sculpture medium. Our ice-cream cones were made with the most basic materials possible: paper mache and newspaper. And they were SO MUCH FUN! 8-14 year olds 8-11 year olds 6-8 year olds Day 1 Cone: We began with the cones. I pre-traced large circle templates on cardstock and cut these in half. I used a large mixing bowl, turned upside-down, and traced it, approximately 14 inches in diameter. Each student got one half-circle. To turn the half-circle into a cone, we held it like a smiley (flat edge up and curved edge down) and holding the corners, we carefully began circling one edge around the other edge, creating the pointy tip of our cone at the center of our top flat edge. We used the same cone-making technique that we used for our pencil sculpture. See the cone-making portion of Cassie Stephen's pencil video here. Once we had the cone shape we wanted we taped the edges with a few pieces of artist tape. After taping the cone, we stuffed it with newspaper to make it more durable and prevent it from collapsing. Scoops: Taping our 'scoops' onto our 'cone' Students could make 2-3 scoops. We simply scrunched one sheet of newspaper together (tightly, using elbow grease!) and then another sheet around this (so 2 in total) and made sure our ball was nicely rounded and firm. We then put a few long pieces of artist tape around the ball, just enough to prevent it from unraveling (3-4 pieces of tape should do it). We repeated this process for each ball. Topping: We chose cherries and lemon/orange slices for our topping. Cherries were just a tightly rolled small newspaper ball and slices were half-circles cut out of cardstock and taped securely to our scoops. Next, we taped one scoop to our cone, securing it with a few strips of painters tape. Then we taped the next scoop to the first scoop, securing with a few strips of tape. We liked the quirky look of the top scoop being slightly off center, so some of us purposefully made our top scoops lean off to one side slightly. Lastly, we put one strip of tape around the point where our scoops meet. This strengthened the overall 'armature' and helps to visually separate one scoop from the next. Messy paper mache Drying on the rack until next class Paper mache Paper Mache: Into large mixing bowls, we mixed 1/2 cup of flour with 1/2 cup of water and whisked them tougher. I had pre-cut rectangle strips of newsprint and brown packaging paper. (You could use newspaper, but I like the these papers because they are text-free, so are a more neutral base for painting over later. We began with our cone. We dipped out fingers in the paper mache and smeared it on our paper square. We placed this square on our cone and added more paper mache on top to seal it down smoothly onto our armature. We repeated this all over the cone, making sure not to leave any part of the armature uncovered. We also strove for a smooth, wrinkle-free finish. Then onto the scoops using the same technique, smoothing each square of paper as we go, and lathering over top of each piece of paper to seal and glue thoroughly. That was that for day one. Making strawberry and mango flavors Day 2 Colors: To save time and to cut down on paint waste, I pre-mixed a few flavors of ice-cream and the cone color. I knew the kids wanted strawberry, mint-chip, mango and chocolate, so I prepped these. We then made, lemon, raspberry, vanilla by just adding a bit more white to our mango, or a bit more red to our strawberry color. Painting: We began by painting the cone first. We dried with the blow dryer and then added some 'cone' texture in a darker brown. We used a plastic sheet with a gridded texture on it (saved from a food packaging) but you could use anything that has some kind of patterned texture. We just lightly dabbed this painted textured piece on our cone, all around, for a subtle texture. Scoops were painted starting with the bottom scoop first. To achieve the dripping, melting look we took a blob of paint on our brush and placed it on the bottom edge of our scoop and coaxed it downward using gravity by gently tapping our cone on the table, allowing the blog of paint to drip every so slightly. Worked like a charm. Don't tap too hard or you'll damage your cone tip. Paint was applied thickly at the bottom of the scoops to get that creamy look. The blow dryer was experiencing heavy use during this project. We needed to make sure each section of our ice-cream was dryish before painting the next section, to minimize smearing and colors mixing. Of course, some smudging was unavoidable. We took care to paint over any smudges, or wipe away unwanted smears. We strove for ice-creams that are clean and neat! Regularly wiping our hands with baby wipes was one way we kept unwanted paint smudges and finger prints from messing up our cones. Slices were painted in yellow or orange, and then with a fine brush we painted the rind and segments in a darker color. Some students used a Posca pen to draw the segments. Cherries were painted in red with a white light reflection spot. This project was super fun and the kids just loved it! They all went home with beautiful, creamy, delicious ice-creams that demonstrated care, control and craftsmanship, with a little humor and quirkiness too. Just perfect for an end-of year project! Teacher sample close-up of dripping paint
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The idea for this lesson came from an image I saw on Pinterest.. but after doing some investigative work - seems to have originated from the blog Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue and before that from the 1991 book written by Sara Beggs, "The No Nonsense Guide to Teaching Art." For this lesson we began by taking about what symmetry is and the difference between linear symmetry (1 line of symmetry) and radial symmetry (more than 1 line of symmetry). Then we talked about what a sculpture is (a piece of artwork you can see from all sides - it is 3-dimensional) and what a relief "sculpture" is (a piece of artwork that has depth on the surface but is not meant to be seen from all sides). Once students understood the principles behind radial symmetry and sculpture we began creating our very own radial paper relief sculptures! Students started by folding a piece of 12"x12" black construction paper diagonally both ways and vertical and horizontally (to create an 'X' crease and a '+' crease). Making these creases makes creating a radial design SO much easier because it gives you guidelines to work with. Once their papers had been folded and their names written, we sat them aside. Before having students begin folding their colored paper (each piece was cut to 3" x 3") to fill the inside of their design, I demonstrated 4 folds to them to get them started. *Students were allowed to deviate from these folds if they wanted to. To download the handout below, click on the arrow button in the top right corner (this will open it in a new window). You can download from there. My kids absolutely LOVED this project! They are already super into origami, so this project was like heaven to them! :) You might also be interested in checking out my Paper Poinsettia Sculpture lesson which uses the same basic concepts. Also available in my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
Der amerikanische Künstler David Kracov wurde 1968 in Boston geboren. David war der jüngste Künstler, dessen Kunstwerke im „Boston Museum of fine Arts“ ausgestellt wurden. Er schafft Metallskulpturen, die die Herzen der Menschen berühren.
Dale Chihuly is one of my favorite glass artist. You see his work a lot here in the Northwest. He even had a piece on the Frasier TV show. But not all of us can do blown glass. I really like wh…
