We are moving onto creating sculptures with organic forms or forms that mimic the shapes we see in living things.  Today we will take a few familiar materials to make the armature of Human Figure.

We will use Aluminum foil to create the armature.

Remember: and armature is the understructure of a sculpture that helps it maintain its shape.

• As we build our figurative sculpture we need to think of how we pose it in order to make our sculpture unique.  Our sculpture will follow a similar structure as our own human bodies, with the skeletal armature holding things together as our own skeleton holds us together.

• When building our sculpture it is important to make our bases heavy first before we begin to plaster the whole body.

• Watch the video below, follow the directions, and allow the base  and lower half of the body to harden for 24 hours before plastering the next phase of your sculpture.

Sculptors use a variety of media to make the outer surface of their works strong enough to last.

Plaster is a powder made of ground gypsum that goes through several changes in the curing process.

Plaster gets wet, gets sticky, gets warm, as it hardens it gets cold and is no longer sticky.  It stays cold for 24 hours. After 24 hours the plastered object can receive additional plaster, glue and other materials.

The fun thing about painting a sculpture that is covered in plaster is that you can rotate the sculpture as much as you please without  worrying about it breaking if you apply too much pressure or dropping it.

We are painting our figurative sculptures

Look at your design. Draw lines to separate your hair, skin, clothing and base.

Paint your sculpture in this order

1. Skin

2. Clothing

3. Hair

4. Base