01/02/13-01/08/13 - Relief Sculpture

Relief Sculpture

Lesson Objective: SWBAT understand the relief process of building up or carving out to form a three dimensional image. Students will be able to use design concepts to create an original relief sculpture.

Essential Skill to be Mastered: To understand how to create a relief sculpture.

I Can Statement: I can use the relief process of building up on a flat surface to create a relief sculpture.

Teaching Strategy: To begin this project I lay out on an empty table about 10 different examples of this project. I ask the students to gather around them and examine to come up with common factors about all of them. When they realize that all of the  examples have different layers built up on each other I then start talking about the relief process of creating sculpture. I then show them the material they are to use and we discuss the different types of designs and how they can use any design they want to. They are then given a blank sheet of paper to draw two colored sketches of what they might want their sculpture to look like. The directions are written on the board and I show them these directions so they always know what is expected of them. I use guided practice during all stages of the project to ensure they are following the guidelines and give help when needed to build the sculpture.

Materials:

6x9 mat board

mat board scraps

Pencil

9x12 drawing paper

Scissors

Glue

Aluminum foil

Sharpie markers

Instructions:

1. Fold drawing paper in half and on each half draw a design to possibly use.

2. Pick the design you like the best or different parts of each.

3. Draw your design onto the mat board.

4. Using scrap pieces of mat board cut out the different shapes that will be used in your design.

5. Glue shapes onto the mat board making sure that some part of the sculpture has at least two layers.

6. After shapes are all glue use glue on aluminum foil. Make sure to start on one side gluing the mat board and pieces completely so the foil sticks to everything.

7. As you are gluing use something to carefully push the foil into the creases of all pieces. This will help give more shape to the mat pieces once they are covered with foil.

8. After project is covered with foil and the glue has completely dried use colored sharpies (regular markers will wipe right off the foil) to color. 

9. You can press slightly harder with the sharpies to create designs "pushed into" the foil and mat board.