October 17, 2013Sculpture

• You need:– Booklets– Something to write with

• Activity:– Introduction to the next project– Draw out a color wheel if there’s time

The Humungous Harvest10/17/2013

You will…

• Pick the name of a fruit or vegetable out of a box

• Your fruit/veg should have signs of human interaction (bite, sliced, partially peeled etc)

• You will shape the fruit/veg out of paper, tape, cardboard and foil

• Finish surface neatly with ‘papier mache’• Paint realistically

Why are we doing this?• Another use for paper in art making• Review color wheel and mixing colors• Autumn is the time for harvests/Thanksgiving• Day of the Dead (food offerings to deceased

loved ones)• Artists have used food imagery for inspiration

for hundreds of years• We all need to eat!

Color Wheel• A diagram that organizes the

basic colors

Palette • Surface to mix paints on

Colors that mix to create ALL other colors1.Red2. Blue3. Yellow

Primary Colors

Colors made with 2 primary colors

1.Green (blue+yellow)

2.Orange (yellow+red)

3.Violet (blue+red)

Secondary Colors

Intermediate/Tertiary Colors

Colors made from 1 primary and 1 secondary color

Yellow-greenYellow-orangeRed-violetRed-orangeBlue-green Blue-violet

ColorScheme

• A planned combination of colors

Complementary Colors

• Colors that are opposite to each other.

Neutral Colors

• Earth colors. • Mix complementary colors to

get these colors

Intensity • How bright or dull a color is

Armature:• The support structure (skeleton)

of a sculpture. Often is covered up.

For this project, our armature can be made with:•Newspaper•Tape•Cardboard•Foil

a glue mixture that uses newspaper, wheat paste (flour) and water

Papier Mache

Still Life:composition of non-living objects

Pop Art: • Time in art and history (1950’s-60’s) when artists used popular or generic images and icons within art.

Andy Warhol

• One of the founders Pop Art• “15 minutes of fame”: idea that anything can

be famous for a short time, until the public grows tired of it.

Claus Oldenburg • Used playful objects in a very large scale

• Objects developed a ‘personality’ of their own

How we’ll begin• You’ll pick a fruit or vegetable randomly from a box.

– You can trade with a friend if you both agree!• Begin building the armature out of newspaper and tape.

Cardboard will be available for sharp or flat edges (5 classes)– Simple fruits and vegetables need to look INTERACTED with somehow

(sliced, bitten etc)– Complex fruits & vegetables include broccoli, artichokes, asparagus

(multiple spears only). • Once it’s built, you will papier mache the form so it’s solid and

finished looking (3 classes)• Painting! 90% mixed colors from Primary colors (and black &

white) (4 classes)

Next:

• Tomorrow: – We’ll create a basic color wheel and practice

mixing colors (2 days)– Choose your fruit/vegetable (randomly picked)

• Turn in your notes at the end of class to the FRONT BOX