LE students learned about Alexander Calder's sculptures. We compared them to his contour drawings and discussed how contour drawings were similar to wire in line quality. After my demo, I had them choose a reference of an animal, draw the contour and trace their drawing with wire. Several students had difficulty with the wire so in the next class, I had them follow each of my steps in sculpting a bird and then finish their previous sculpture.Friday, May 28, 2010
LE: Wire Sculptures
LE students learned about Alexander Calder's sculptures. We compared them to his contour drawings and discussed how contour drawings were similar to wire in line quality. After my demo, I had them choose a reference of an animal, draw the contour and trace their drawing with wire. Several students had difficulty with the wire so in the next class, I had them follow each of my steps in sculpting a bird and then finish their previous sculpture.
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These are very sweet. You may see a project inspired by this posting sometime next year on my blog. They are very cute!
ReplyDeleteThank you Mrs. Hahn! I think they're very cute too:)
ReplyDeleteWhat did you use as a base for these?
ReplyDeleteHi Janney, I went to the Recycle Center (in RI) and they had a whole bin of these plastic lids!
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