Sculpture in Relief (two 45 minute periods)

GRADE 4

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LESSON CONTENT FOCUS: Students will create an abstract wall relief that incorporates the use of free form shapes, lines, movement, & color.

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to identity the following elements

of art:

1. differentiate between warm & cool colors

2. recognize art work by the artist Frank Stella

3. use free form shapes

4. use expressive lines

5. create an abstract sculpture

VOCABULARY:

1. sculpture

2. relief

3. abstract

4. warm & cool colors

MATERIALS:

1. newspapers to cover workspaces

2. colored oak tag in warm & cool colors plus black approx. 10” x 8 ½”

3. oaktag 11” x 14”

4. craypas in warm & cool colors , plus black & white

6. scissors, Elmer's glue, & markers

7. pre-cut toilet paper holders in small, medium, & large lengths.

8. buttons, pipe cleaners, & paillettes (all in warm or cool colors)

9. clay

PROCEDURE:

1. Draw 3 freeform shapes with black marker on oaktag remembering to fill up entire page.

2. Using craypas in a combination of the warm or cool colors, fill each shape with strong expressive lines (encourage students not to have any oaktag showing through)

3. black and/or white craypas can be used for accent

4. cut out shapes along black line, sign name on back of each shape

5. Pass out toilet paper holders (1 sm, 1 med, & 1 lg.) plus colored markers

6. Decorate each toilet paper holder with lines, shapes, stripes, stars, etc. in the color scheme that has already been chosen.

7. When holders are decorated, glue one holder to each free form shape.

* show students how to put glue on rim of tube & lay tube on shape

· pass out paper towels to catch drips

· collect each tables tubes & shape on lunch room trays for next week

Part 2

1. Review warm & cool colors

2. Ask questions about previous lesson

· Show supplies to be used to complete sculpture

· display a partially finished project.

· demonstrate application & placement of pipe cleaners to be adhered by

pinching a piece of clay, rolling it, flattening it & adding a dot of glue to

bottom

· show how to twist, curl, & bend pipe cleaners

· add buttons & paillettes to the free form shapes

* * remind students to stick with only warm or cool colors

**An idea for a bulletin board is to display the sculptures stapled on the wall first having covered the board with bright colored paper and a border. Along the top or on the side of the bulletin board you might write:

Fourth Grade learned about the Frank Stella. We looked at some of his relief sculptures. We saw that he used lots of free form shapes and covered them with expressive lines that showed movement. The shapes and lines together made the wall relief very exciting! We made our own wall reliefs using warm or cool colors.

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