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Painted Cardboard SculpturesDescription: Students will paint cardboard and use it to create large scale sculptures: either life sized realizations of created characters OR environments for characters to live within. Subject matter will build from what students created in the first project.
Motivation: Creating large sculptures, working with cardboard (specific request from many students), a wide variety of choices for the finished product History and Culture: architecture models, miniatures, classical heroic sculpture, modern claymation sculpture (Tim Burton and Henry Selik creations) Materials and Techniques: utility knives, cardboard, glue, found objects, paint supplies |
Companion Pottery PiecesDescription: Students will use clay to create a piece that relates to their first sculpture in some way. This could be a functional piece that the character would use, a sculptural piece that relates to the character’s identity, or an object that fits in the environment they built.
Motivation: Working with clay (requested by several students), building on previous work, using glazes, and a variety of choices for the finished product History and Culture: Sanam Emami, Materials and Techniques: clay, aprons, wire pottery tools, water, glazes, mats, plastic bags and wrap, slips |