Sculpture Weekly Forecast

 Project List First Quarter

• Mrs. Hurd’s Rules/Art PPT Due Date:________________grade___________%

• Required Materials Check Due Date:________________grade___________%

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Ho    Homework/Sketchbook Assignments First Quarter 

• Elements and Principles Due Date:_________8/27___grade___________%

• Sculpture & Serenity Stones Due Date:_________8/27___grade___________%

• Egyptian Notes & Sketch of Pharoh Due Date:__________8/27__grade___________%

   

Week 1

Day 1: Discuss Classroom Values
Rules, Expectations, Procedures, Grading & Required Materials, Q & A

Day 2: Ice Breaker Activity-Emojis-Picture Stories
* Bonus *- Kleenex, Germex, Erasers, Sharpies, Packing Tape…3pts ea (limit 8 per semester)

Day 3: Sketchnotes-the Elements and Principles of art.

Day 4-6 Serenity stones-
Plaster: Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for molding and casting decorative elements.
Sculptamold: papier-mache-plaster (paper clay)  mix that turns into a moldable material you can 'sculpt' for rock faces, model building, etc...
Urban legends: a genre of folklore comprising stories circulated as true, especially as having happened to a "friend of a friend" or family member, often with horrifying or humorous elements.
Talisman:  An object, typically an inscribed ring or stone, that is thought to have magic powers and to bring good luck.
"those rings, so fresh and gleaming, were their talismans"
Folklore: the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. a body of popular myths and beliefs relating to a particular place, activity, or group of people.
Functional art vs. Decorative Art

Fine art pieces are meant to provoke an emotional reaction or generate an intellectual response. They can convey a variety of ideas and emotions – good and bad, shocking, disturbing, or even ugly. Decorative art, on the other hand, is limited by its decorative function.

What are your family traditions?  Do you know any folklore or urban legends?
What will you do with your rock? Where will you put it?
Process:  Mix plaster and sculpt mold by hand, mold around the rock, pour plaster into molds, let dry, glue together, and paint like faux stone.

Supply Check today and tomorrow for a bonus.  Tour of Art Room/Scavenger Hunt

Week 2

Day 1-2: Worry Stones:  A smooth polished stone brought forth to land by an ancient churning sea, often rested in the pockets and palms of many original Greeks, Irish, and Tibetans. Also called “Palm Stones” and “Thumb Stones“, the idea of rubbing a stone in between the thumb and forefinger is almost as ancient as the stones themselves. Thought to originate in Greece, worry stones were typically taken from a body of water and were smooth, small, and round, or oval in shape.

Faux painting or faux finishing: terms used to describe decorative paint finishes that replicate the appearance of materials such as marble, wood, or stone.

Sketchbook assignment:  Think about all of your personal possessions, what makes them important? Design a page in your sketchbook based on one of your most personal/important possessions.  Maybe you will draw it?  Maybe you will color it?  Maybe you don’t like to draw, so you print out a picture of something similar or of the object and collage around the image.  Maybe you write a word and decorate the word?  You are going to figure out a personal way to express something that is important to you. 

What is sculpture:
The sculpture is the art of using materials to transform an idea into a real object.  IN the context of this class the term is used to designate a three-dimensional form.  We will be making functional art and decorative art. 

People both past and present create sculptures for many reasons:  to send a message, beautify their surroundings, express beliefs, or the sheer joy of using their hands to touch and shape the material.  From hand-sized carvings of prehistory to the monumental statues of ancient America, and from the majestic marble figures of the renaissance to the intricate mixed-media constructions of today, the sculpture is a reflection of the society in which it is produced. 

Do you feel this desire to transform materials into sculptures that express your ideas?  Hopefully, in this class, you will learn to find inspiration in new materials and explore new methods and invent new sculptural forms.

Day 2: Egyptian ART:https://www.pinterest.com/nataladooda/egypt/
the desire for a happy afterlife led to a prolific development of tomb art and architecture.  Egyptian funerary rituals and tombs furnishings are the most elaborate the world has known.  The Egyptians created huge mortuary or burial, temples cut deep into sandstone cliffs to house the bodies of their mummified pharaohs.  They were buried with everything they would need for this afterlife:  food, servants, art, furniture, pets.  Rameses II’s temple at Abu Simbel is one of the most famous.  Found figures of Rameses are carved directly out of the standing cliff.  Each statue is 69 ½ feet high.

Egyptian Mortuary Temple Tour Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and Large Kneeling Statue, New Kingdom, Egypt

Egyptian artwork exhibit: Metropolitan Museum – Egyptian Art

Cartouche In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to the oval, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.

 Car        Cartouche In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to the oval, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name.

                Think about hieroglyphics...how could you incorporate those into an artwork?  Where would you want to see it?  On a train car graffiti style, digital graphic to use on websites or business cards?  Packaging for a certain project?  The artist above used their cartouches as inspiration.  How will you?  Draw, paint, build, digital graphic in google or photopea.com?

Sketchbook assignment: Pre-sketch your hieroglyphs in your sketchbook.  Do your personal best and make the details.  You can youse whatever art supply you desire. Due Friday and we will share in class. How to Draw Tutankhamen Real Easy