Textured Relief Sculpture with Van Gogh

    

Allow 15 minutes for several days/weeks of art class to complete this project

DISCUSSION:

Texture

What is texture?

Where do we find it in nature?

Where do we see it in life everyday?

How can it help us?

Where do we see it in art?

Relief Sculpture

       what is it?

       where do you see it?

       it usually tells a story

       what would you find on the back of relief sculpture?

Project: 11:30-1

Step1: look through the books on Van Gogh and choose your favorite piece

Step2: get a hunk of clay

Step3: using your hand, warm it up by just moving it through your fingers

Step4: begin the process of rolling it out with your hands

Step5: flatten the clay and create a square or rectangle

Step6: with a toothpick begin to draw out your van Gogh piece in the clay

Step7: draw it all in with line

Step8: now go back and look at the texture of the piece

Step9: using different tools recreate the texture in to your clay drawing

Day 2: (or week 2)

Your RELIEF sculpture is now leather hard

Leather hard means harder then yesterday but you can still make changes

Step1: using sculpture tools from yesterday, carve out additional details

Add more texture, make details deeper, etc.

Day 3 (week 3)

At this stage the clay will be completely hardened

Paint the clay with acrylic paints

Day 4 (week 4)

Finish the piece by adding a gloss coat over the paint. Modge Podge is a great option. 

Adaptations: 

If a kiln is available you would bisque fire after week two and glaze fire after the third week. 

MATERIALS:

1 pound of clay per child

assorted tools to add texture

  straws

  plastic forks and knives

  tooth picks

Acrylic paint

Modge Podge

  

Picasso Cubism Cup Scultures

Second-Fifth Grade

TWO WEEK PROJECT

Discussion: Cubism/perspective/emotion
What does cubism mean?
How do things look from an airplane?
How small are the trees in the park from here? Can they fit in your fingers?
And standing next to them how much could we fit in our fingers? One piece of bark??
PERSPECTIVE: how you see things from where you are
In this classroom: some of you are looking at this half of my face and some at this half
Cubism means to draw things from several perspectives in one space
PICASSO and a fellow artist pioneered this idea.
Picasso would draw one face but show it from profile and forward.
Emotion: how color, music, life make you feel
If you are in a bad mood do you think you would paint the same thing if you were
in a good mood?
What about music? If you are listening to your favorite song/artist do you think you would paint the same thing as you would if you were listening to your Least favorite?
Picasso included emotion in his pieces deciding on colors and images based upon how he felt about them or in the moment.

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso
(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art.
He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years,
He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence;
During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas.
Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

PROJECT: create a clay cup with Picasso face
TO ATTACH ITEMS TO YOUR CLAY: score and SLIP them into place (demonstrate how to
score and slip for the students
Step1: roll your clay around in your hands until you create a perefct ball
Step2: pick a spot at the top of your ball and push both thumbs against the clay
Step3: Begin to go around in a circle with thumbs on the inside of the clay and fingers on the outside
Step4: continue until you have a pinch pot in the shape and size of a drinking cup
Step4: Use your extra clay create facial features: eyes, nose, lips, ears
Step5: attach eyes: one forward and one sideways
Step6: attach a nose but maybe it is upside down or on the cheek
Step7: attach a mouth but maybe it is on the forehead or sideways
Step8: don’t forget hair you can add it with your toothpick using texture

MATERIALS:
Clay
Toothpicks

WEEK 2:
Give the students acrylic paints and have them paint their cups. Ask them to spend time on each object of their face and to paint all of their sculpture: back front and even the inside.

These pieces were made from clay, allowed to harden and painted with acrylic paints. This lesson is easily adapted to firing and glazing.

Picasso Cubism Coasters

Preschool-First Grade

Discussion: Cubism/perspective/emotion
What does perspective mean?
How do things look from an airplane?
How does an airplane look from here?
How small are the trees in the park from here? Can they fit in your fingers?
And standing next to them how much could we fit in our fingers? One piece of bark??

PERSPECTIVE: how you see things from where you are
In this classroom: some of you are looking at this half of my face and some at this half
Cubism means to draw things from several perspectives in one space
PICASSO pioneered the idea he is the father of cubism
Picasso would draw one face but show it from profile and forward.

Emotion: how color, music, life make you feel
If you are in a bad mood do you think you would paint the same thing if you were in a good mood?
What about music? If you are listening to your favorite song/artist do you think you would paint the
Same thing as you would if you were listening to your Least favorite?
Picasso included emotion in his pieces deciding on colors and images based upon how he felt in that moment.

ARTIST: Pablo Picasso
(25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973)
He was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor.
He is one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art.
He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Picasso demonstrated uncanny artistic talent in his early years,
He painted in a realistic manner through his childhood and adolescence;
During the first decade of the twentieth century his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas.
Picasso’s creativity manifested itself in numerous mediums, including painting, sculpture, drawing, and architecture. His revolutionary artistic accomplishments brought him universal renown and immense fortunes throughout his life, making him the best-known figure in twentieth century art.

PROJECT: create a clay coaster with a Picasso influenced face
Step1: roll your clay out like a snake
Step2: coil it up like a sleeping snake
Step3: begin to flatten it so that the top and bottom are smooth
Step4: once you have a smooth circle begin to add facial features with your toothpick
Step5: add eyes: one forward and one sideways
Step6: add a nose but maybe it is upside down or on the cheek
Step7: add a mouth but maybe it is on the forehead or sideways
Step8: don’t forget hair

MATERIALS:
Clay
toothpicks

Here are additional photos of Picasso coasters from preschoolers that have been glazed and fired