Cover It Up!

TAB artists use a lot of cardboard in the Sculpture Studio. Cardboard is a wonderful material to construct and build with. Let's look at how artists use art mediums to transform cardboard.

There are many ways to transform or change the appearance of cardboard, here are some ways you might try:

Try painting the cardboard in solid colors or patterns.  This can be done before or after you construct.

Before and After.  Notice the difference a little paint can make.   

Look at these painted animals.  They are painted. Which attachment technique did the artist use?

Here are a few more painted cardboard works.

What if you wrap cardboard in yarn?

What did this artist use to cover the cardboard? 

 If you guessed crayons or oil pastels, you got it.  Try coloring your cardboard art with crayons and oil pastels.

What if you transform the cardboard with BOTH crayons and paper?  

OR only paper.  Glue on paper! Make windows and doors.  Glue on scales and spines.

How about using marker!  Color the cardboard solid, fill it in completely or use Sharpie for details and pattern.

Mixed media means you used a variety of materials.  Look at how mixed media changed this cardboard.

Paper, paint, fabric, stickers, confetti, permanent marker, foil.

Not all cardboard is flat.  Can anyone guess what these colorful hearts started out as?  or this sea beast?  Both have been transformed. 

How will you transform cardboard?

Will you cover any writing or printing done at the factory that made the box?

Will the material you choose to cover the cardboard be part of your design?

Wet n' Stick Demonstration 

Unlock the Sculpture studio

Let's Discover the Sculpture Studio

Sculpture is a type of artwork that is three dimensional. It can be seen from all sides. Sculptures can be made out of many things like clay, wood, metal, glass...you name it!

An artist who makes sculptures in called a sculptor.

We can see a sculpture in a museum...

Sometimes an artist can sculpt from unusual materials...

Sometimes artists create sculptures for the outdoors. Have you seen this sculpture in Forest Park?

 In sculpture you can add

some of the ways you add to your sculpture are by using slits, hot glue, tape, paper tape, brass fasteners and staples; these are attachments.

In Sculpture you can subtract

When you remove material such as carving, cutting or scraping, you are creating a subtractive sculpture.

In SCULPTURE we TRANSFORM materials

We change the appearance of the materials by cutting, gluing, wrapping in paper, coloring with markers or Kwik sticks to transform them from their original look.

We keep our materials organized... 

Containers have labels with pictures and words.  We put like items together.

  In this studio we use tools in a safe way...

All Tools are a choice. 

    Safety Goggle tools:                         Gloves:

Drill                                                 Hot Glue gun

Saw                                                

Wire cutters 

 

To Saw you must use a vice and safety goggles.  Two artists may saw at a time.  ONLY wood and corks may be sawed. 

*NO jabbing, stabbing or poking through sculpture materials.  use a drill to make a hole!  Drill in the vice or over your book.  

Today we will do a checklist to show that we are ready to work in the sculpture studio.

You will make a cylinder...

You will flange the cylinder...

Spiral and accordion fold

You will create tabs or braces...

After you flange a cylinder and show that you know how to make tabs, you may explore other ways to connect papers for sculptures...