After School Art Club: Drawing, Collage, Painting and Sculpture. (Part 2)
Following on from the Year 3 and 4 Drawing and Making after school club at Bourn Primary Academy in which we made polar bears, we went on to construct icebergs for our bears. We created an icy installation in the school hall, which gave the children the opportunity to see all their hard work in context, and to take photos of their finished sculptures.
Researching Subject Matter
We began by sketching icebergs. Working on large sheets of paper and using soluble graphite and regular graphite, children worked to sketch the large shapes by using gestural marks. The children explored using different kinds of marks on the same drawing – thin specific lines to create outline, and thick, voluminous marks to suggest mass. Children then used brushes and water to explore how the soluble graphite turned to watercolour – and how they could exploit the energy of this drawing material. It worked well with the iceberg subject matter…
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After School Art Club: Drawing, Sculpture, Collage and Painting, Part 1 | AccessArt: Visual Arts Teaching, Learning & Practice
March 13, 2013 @ 7:13 pm
[…] The bears looked great, as you can see below, but I wanted to add to the project by building icebergs for the bears, giving the children more opportunity to develop their construction skills, think about how to make exciting, dynamic forms, and to help them see their finished sculptures in a new context. Find out how we built icebergs here! […]
A Gillen
May 5, 2014 @ 7:12 pm
This all looks fantastic – i’m just starting out doing an after school art class in my local primary school – so far i’ve done painting and drawing with them – but havent tackled any sculpture as yet – all these ideas are really helpful – i’m also hoping to do a local summer school art class – so i’m on the hunt for ideas for art to do with groups of about 20 kids age range 7 – 12
Paula Briggs
May 7, 2014 @ 1:54 pm
Good luck with all that. Search for more ideas via the “sculpture children” tag at /tag/sculpture-children/