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.

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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

I am always doing that which I cannot do. In order that I may learn how to do it.

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).

This week, Kindergarten is learning about lines, and they're creating their very own line sculpture! I love how well they are listening, how hard they are working, and how unique each little sculpture is! We got our inspiration from, a super fun art teacher in Nashville, Cassie Stephens. Click on her name, and you'll be transported to her UH-MAZING blog. This project was done in one 45 minute class, so the students were able to take their art home today! I had the strips already cut out, demonstrated how to glue them down on my document camera, and then let them take the reins! I think they did a wonderful job! Here are a few of their finished examples. Great job Kindergarten!!

This project requires a few materials, but is so much fun! Our summer camp kids enjoyed creating their paper sculptures. Some kids made ...

Fifth Grade students studied gesture drawings and the sculptures of George Segal. Students then created their own gesture sculptures showing...

A seductive shape, recognisable from our being which relaxes the troubled thought and leads to mental equilibrium.

Relief sculpture is an art form that is midway between painting and sculpture in the round. It is a process in which the subject stands out or projects a surface from the background. The surface can be several levels including high relief (deep or almost in the round) or low relief (shallow) or anywhere in between. To create their relief sculptures, seventh graders first learned about the difference between shape and form. A shape is two-dimensional (it has height and width) whereas a form is three-dimensional (it not only has height and width but also depth). Students experimented creating forms out of basic paper shapes by rolling, bending, folding and gluing them. After trying a variety of forms, students chose their favorite and created sixty variations of that form. Students then considered space and balance to position their forms into their final sculptural arrangement. These look awesome on display as they protrude from the wall- it's hard to really see the depth in these individual photos, but the shadows and dimension are super cool up close! Some photos of the students folding, rolling, arranging and gluing: The final pieces: Some views from an angle and up close:

For the past few weeks Kindergarten has been learning about the artist, Claes Oldenburg! Oldenburg was a sculpture artist who created giant sculptures of everyday objects. We focused mainly on his …

I am always doing that which I cannot do. In order that I may learn how to do it.

3D Name Sculpture The first project I had my students do was a 3D name sculpture. This was the inspiration for the project (scro...

Lesson Title: Giacometti Figure Sculptures Concepts: Figure Sculpting, Working in Wire, Capturing Movement & Gesture, Creating 3D Forms Appropriate Grade Levels: 3rd - High School Lesson Rationale/Overview: After an intensive figure drawing unit,

6th grade student with his art pieces; he holds the original printing plate turned into an aluminum foil relief sculpture and one of his prints on watercolor paper. 6th graders recently completed a printmaking unit, involving many stages of production. First, we learned about Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai, who created the famous print, The Great Wave At Kanagawa: Hokusai, The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, 1830 We also learned about other printmakers from art history, such as Albrecht Durer, M.C. Escher, and Rembrandt. Students watched Youtube videos about these artists to see examples of fine art printmaking and to learn the difference between intaglio and relief prints. Click on this link to see a listing of the videos. Then, students thought of a design fitting with the theme of "nature," brainstorming several ideas before settling on a good one to use for their prints. They used a resource picture as a drawing reference and carefully drew the image onto a piece of cardboard. Then, we used school glue to outline all the pencil lines. This took several days because we added up to 3 layers of glue. There needed to be a raised line of dried glue on the cardboard to take ink later on. Finally, after days of glue application, we began printing. Students used brayers to roll ink onto their printing plates, paying close attention to applying an even layer of ink. It took practice to get just the right amount of ink on the plate and spend the right amount of time printing. When we were finished printing our limited edition of fine art prints and experimenting with colored papers, students used aluminum foil to transform the inky printing plates into a relief sculpture! We had fun embellishing the pieces with metallic markers, and some students used markers to hand color their prints. I am proud of their work! These are lovely images, and we can use our work to bring beauty into the world by sharing with others! Students will turn at least one of their prints into a greeting card, and will be encouraged to give some away to friends and family. One of our super powers as artists is to find and create beauty and then share it with others! student shows off his print and aluminum relief sculpture made from the printing plate student shows off her print and aluminum relief sculpture made from the printing plate here is a series of prints along with the glue-line cardboard printing plate aluminum foil relief sculpture made from the glue-line printing plate aluminum foil relief sculpture made from the glue-line printing plate aluminum foil relief sculpture made from the glue-line printing plate “From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the shapes of things. When I was 50 I had published a universe of designs. But all I have done before the the age of 70 is not worth bothering with. At 75 I'll have learned something of the pattern of nature, of animals, of plants, of trees, birds, fish and insects. When I am 80 you will see real progress. At 90 I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At 100, I shall be a marvelous artist. At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my self 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing.” Hokusai

Teach students about ALL of the Art Elements and Principles of Design in one dazzling art lesson! Engaging organic sculpture lesson 8th-12!

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!

Do you have students who are engaged with graphic novels? Maybe more along the lines of traditional comic books? This lesson is great for 4th – 7th grade students! 6th grade student example H…

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

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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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Learn about famous art and create your own sculpture with this fun lesson about Giacometti.

Try this easy tinfoil sculpture art lesson in your classroom. Learn more from this blog post.

Try this easy tinfoil sculpture art lesson in your classroom. Learn more from this blog post.

This term year 9 have been looking into graffiti and lettering. For this lesson the students came to the lesson having developed their own lettering for homework and then in class they drew out eac…

I first heard about Pinterest a couple months ago. Heard it was awesome, but didn't feel like I needed one more thing to be obsessed about on the computer. Then I came across an art blog where the blogger was talking about Pinterest. I decided to check it out and had a friend of mine "invite" me to join. Oh my gosh! This website is awesome!! It's a super easy way to bookmark ANYTHING on the internet into categories so you can remember it and come back to it. I've been addicted to it all week; found new recipes to try, new activities to do with the kids, AND new art projects! I came across THIS Dale Chihuly-inspired art project. I had a completely different project planned for the girls' art journal this week. But once I saw this and how easy it is to make it (shrinky dink paper, permanent markers, and a glue gun!) I scrapped the original project idea and we have spent the last three days working on this: The girls and I actually started this before I showed them images of Chihuly's work. When I finally got around to showing them images they LOVED his stuff! I got all of these images as screen grabs from Google Images. But you can find good information about Dale Chihuly on his website. The girls immediately picked this one (above) to see larger. Then I told them it was on the ceiling in a hotel in Las Vegas and they thought that was sooo cool!The one above was Ella's favorite. I could have have called that, it has her favorite colors of lime green and blue. And Lily really liked the spiky ball below. I could look at Chihuly's work all day long. It's so interesting and beautiful.So we set out to make a sculpture inspired by his work. We each made a larger shape that I planned to use as the base. And then we used the scraps and colored strips to make curlicues. I usually just let the girls do their own thing with my guidance for our projects. But I was sooo excited about this project I had to join in so my piece is below. :-) We cut around some of the shapes hoping they would have a more organic shape after we baked them. We figured out that it worked well to make thin stripes (coloring both sides of opaque white shrinky dink paper) and cut them up. Once baked, they made fun curly pieces. Above: Some random shapes and colors Lily decided to try. :-) To bake them, I used parchment paper on cookie sheets. I figured out quickly it was best to bake only one piece at a time so I could watch it and quickly remove it, mold it if I felt like it and put it aside to cool. The girls obviously didn't really participate in this part. But they loved watching through the oven window to see when the pieces started to curl. Last step--Gluing the sculpture together: Step one: a solid base using the larger pieces. Step 2: Adding the medium/thicker curlicues. Step 3: All the little curlicues left! I let the girls pick out which pieces I should glue next and give me their opinion on where they thought the pieces should go. The FINISHED product! Honestly, this project took forever! Hours! BUT, I LOVED it! The girls liked it a lot and we're all very proud of our masterpiece. They even had to bring it over to Gramma and Grandpa's house tonight to show them they were so proud.

These paper roller coasters are SO fun to make. All you need is strips of construction paper. The steps for the little car are below.

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