October 19 - 23

Unit 3- From 2-D to 3-D

Current Project: Expressive Figures in Relief (click here for Rubric.)

Objectives: Create a clay high-relief sculpture with the following:

• Demonstrates planning based on gestural drawings of a human model
• Creates different identiable textures that help to describe the forms and add to the overall sculpture
• Uses good ceramic handbuiltding techniques for the relief sculpture
• Demonstrates an understanding of expressive and emotive sculpture

• Monday: Last day to work on Surreal Collages in class. Homework is to bring in 5 images of people in action. They must be photos from head to toe - no cartoons.
• Tuesday: Introduce gesture. Use magazine images to make gestures. Work on sculpture terms handout.
• Wednesday: Unit 2 test. Make gestures from students in class. Work on sculpture terms handout.
• Thursday: Journal Day!! Work on both the Protest Collage page and the background for your collage human! Surreal Collages are due!
• Friday: Formal critique of collages from different classes. You will work in a group and be given a group grade for following the four step art criticism. Review for the Unit 2: Aesthetics test.

Quote for the week: That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it. - Alberto Giacometti

VVJ assignment: Create a double-page spread background for your collage person. Use a horizon line and create silhouetted objects on the horizon that create an appropriate environment for your collage person. Experiment with using color - colored pencil, oil pastels, and chalk pastels. Due Monday, November 2 (along with the protest journal).