6th grade wheel students recently learned about Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Although Giacometti was a brilliant artist in painting, printmaking, and drawing, we focused on his sculptures. Here are two examples of bronze sculptures created by Giacometti:
Students began this project with a sessions of gesture drawing.
We had students model for a few minutes at a time while the class captured their pose. This exercise helped students think about the poses they wanted their figure sculptures to be in.
The sculpture process started with a wire armature, then they were "bulked up" with foil, then coated with paper mache.
To make them look a little more like bronze, students applied metallic paint with a dry brush.
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