Sculpture
what will we be doing in sculpture?
sketchbooks
All visual arts courses at West Forsyth use sketchbooks for prompts, media study pages, planning works, artist research, and documentation of notes/teacher instruction.
The Canson Mixed Media Spiral 9x12 XL is the one we recommend.
Projects
Students focus on production of relief sculpture and sculpture-in-the round. Includes additive, subtractive, and modeling methods. Students explores traditional and nontraditional materials for sculpted works and the work of both historical and contemporary sculptural artists.
Media like ceramics, plaster, stained glass, needle and wet felting, working with wire and balsa wood will be explored in varied levels of sculpture classes. Students in sculpture 2 explore wheel throwing.
what supplies do I need for SCULPTURE classes?
All tools and supplies will be provided in class. Students will use a variety of media including ceramic clay, wire, balsa wood, paper, and foam core. Students will be exposed to a multiple sculptural processes including additive and subtractive techniques.
Students may wish to bring a smock of some kind that they can wear over their clothes, especially when we work with clay.
We ask students purchase a sketchbook for class. We will use these all year with various media. We highly recommend a Canson XL Mixed Media 9x12 sketchbook.
What sites and apps will we use?
All apps, resources, and sites used in class will be linked into the ITSL planner for student convenience.
itsLearning is our county learning platform. All presentations, rubrics, assignment dropboxes, and video instruction will be available on ITSL. Students will learn how to navigate my course at the beginning of the year.
Almost all of my class presentations are created with Google Slides. These resources are uploaded on ITSL for student access. I also utilize Google Forms and Google Jamboard in class.
Flipgrid is an awesome site that I like to use for students to share their work with one another. Students can use their cell phone or a chromebook (or any device with a camera and the ability to record audio) to record short videos of their work while sharing out their ideas, artistic process, etc. We often use Flipgrid for students to reflect upon their work when submitting it for grading.
Padlet is a great resource where I can open up 'digital cork boards' that students can upload their sketchbook pages or artwork to in order to create a class gallery. I like to use these for students to engage in a fun way to peer critique. Padlet boards are also a good way for groups of students to work together generating ideas.