3-D Review and Practice Activities:
Follow directions carefully given to you by the teacher and throughout each 3-D media tutorial.
Keep ALL sketches and practice work in your sketchbook or recycle the practice materials as instructed!
Take your learning seriously and try hard and you will improve your sculpting and 3-D art media skills!
Keep ALL sketches and practice work in your sketchbook or recycle the practice materials as instructed!
Take your learning seriously and try hard and you will improve your sculpting and 3-D art media skills!
Basic 3D Clay Skills Activity 1:
Clay: MUST KNOWS -Clay is plastic-squishy play-doh like feel. -Clay is NEVER thrown away, scraps or re-do's are put into the clay recycle bin and will be reconstituted back to plastic workable clay again. -Clay areas should never be over 1" thick or you may risk cracking or breaking happening in the firing process in the kiln! -Any clay pieces that are not VERY SOFT must be slipped/scored together. This involves scratching up DEEPLY the surfaces of the two pieces of clay being stuck together and putting clay slip in-between them (acts like glue)! -Clay works WILL NOT BE FIRED unless they meet an accomplished level for FORM QUALITY, firing a kiln is very expensive so work should be of the highest quality. -Clay can be sculpted and molded into nearly anything you can imagine. Check out the first video for an example of an artist that used clay as a relief sculpture...could you imagine this as a painting of flowers and birds as well? |
NOTE: Sculpture projects should have steel wire placed inside the clay in thicker areas to provide support to the structure. We call this an ARMATURE. The steel will survive the firing process as it has a higher melting point than the temperature we fire to for the bisque and glaze firing.
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Clay Activity:
This tutorial will focus on creating and using small slabs to create a flower and leaves, basic surface texture, and blending shapes. You will learn the slab method of shaping clay. You will sculpt a flower based upon a live model (fake flower) to begin to build your sculpting and modeling skills. Process: 1. Ball up a piece of newspaper to create a base to sculpt on top of. 2. Create enough flowers, birds, or other objects of your choosing, (turtle, people, etc.) of the type/shape you wish, to cover the surface. 3. Each MUST BE SLIPPED/SCORED and well blended onto the shaped slab base to stick. 4. Add leaves or extras like scraped or carved texture (i.e. a tiny frog or tiny bird or use a needle tool to scrape a tree bark texture). 5.Scratch Name into clay on side of slab or other area. YOU MUST PUT YOUR NAME ON WORK! Materials: Get a piece of clay (a softball size block): AND -1 rolling pin per table -1 towel -1 needle tool -2 to 3 different shaped sculpting tools -1 container of water -1 clay brush -1 any print outs or models to look at (flowers, birds, branches, etc.) |
Basic 3D Skills Demonstrations 1
How to make a paper-mache structure and paper-clay sculptures on top of an armature made of wire, cardboard, and/or wood. |
BELOW: PAPER MACHE
BELOW: PAPER CLAY
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Sculpture Demo Examples:
DO NOW: Pay close attention to the process used to create paper forms for paper mache and clay overlays often used in sculpting. Note: clay items must fit into the kiln, paper mache items have little limitation for size. Paper Clay Recipe: -4 rolls inexpensive toilet paper -6 tbsp. mineral oil -4 cups of joint compound -3 cups of flour -3 cups of paper-mache paste (water/flour/elmers glue/salt) *Seal in bucket and refrigerate for best results. |
Basic 3D Mixed Media Idea
(mosiac, mixed media painting, sculpture, and assemblage) |
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Assemblage Example:
An exciting and great way to build narrative or story into your artwork is to create an assemblage of various smaller sculptures, textures, objects, paintings, etc. that all 'tell a story'. We will look at the work of 3 current mixed media artists: -Jason Dussault -Corey Ritch -Tom Haney -Edgar Hernandez |
Clay & Paper Sculpture Project Examples
(mosiac, mixed media painting, sculpture, and assemblage)
(mosiac, mixed media painting, sculpture, and assemblage)