Sculptures!

Today, we were so lucky to have Megan from the Artists For Kids Outreach Program come to our class to teach us all about sculptures.  She started by showing us some photos of some sculptures that are made out of some very interesting materials (a mask made out of running shoes!  a skeleton made out of plastic chairs!  a very large head made out of chewing gum!)

Then we got to work on our own sculptures.  We started by learning about organic shapes (as opposed to geometric shapes) and we drew one on a piece of cardboard.

Then we cut our cardboard shapes out.

Then we chose two colours that we liked and torn the paper into thin strips.

Then we glued the thin strips of paper onto our cardboard shapes, making sure to cover all the cardboard.

After all that work, we took a break for recess.

After recess, Megan showed us how we are going to attach our cardboard creations to a base to make a sculpture.

We then chose whether we wanted to use warm colours or cool colours for our base and learned how to mix two colours to make another colour.

This is the warm colour group.

This is the cool colour group.

Then, when the paint was pretty much dry, we took both parts of our sculptures to Megan and she used a screw to attach them together.

Here is what they looked like together as a group….

We looked at all of the sculptures together and talked about some of the things we like about them and about the process of making them.  We also talked about abstract art and how different people see different things when they look at abstract art.  

 And here are some photos of each artist with his/her creation….

Then at centre time, one student came and asked me to come and look at the sculpture she made out of sand!  I had to share a photo of that!

Sorry for the upside-down photo, but please look for this paper in your child's home envelope tonight.  You will need to fill it in and return in order to get tickets to our Christmas Concert that is happening on December 9.