Transcript 5th Grade Clay Sculptures ppt

Clay sculptures
What is a sculpture?
• Figure or design created in 3 dimensions
• Medium
• Clay
• Paper
• Marble
• Ice
• Cheese?
Art Elements
Can you name all 5?
What defines an object in space?
• Shape or Form (create candle ring)
What is a moving dot?
• Line (add designs)
What adds value and intensity?
• Color (give designs intensity)
What gives tactile clues?
• Texture (make it tactile- smooth, bumpy,
etchings)
What shows distance between foreground
and background?
• Space
Shape & Form
Shape and form define objects
in space.
Shape has only height and width
 has two dimensions–height and
width
 usually defined by lines.
Forms exist in three dimensions
 have height, width, and depth.
 can be seen from more than one
side
 Are the basis of sculpture,
furniture, and decorative arts.
Clay
What is it?
• Clay is made of very small (sand-sized) pieces of rock that
stick together.
• Clay can be found in
abundance all around the
world.
• There are 2 basic types of
clay:
• Kiln-Fired (red and white)
• Air-dry (white or colored)
Air Dry Clay
• Air-dry clays are easier to shape with your hands.
• They are made of small pieces of earth or paper.
• With this kind of clay you can also add more pieces
of clay to your project after it is completely dry!
• Best of all this clay dries solid and you don't
need a kiln to fire the piece dry.
• Cannot be glazed, only painted. To get the shine of a
glaze you have to add a special shiny clear paint.
Kiln Fired Clay (Part 1)
1. GREENWARE. When clay is wet, it is easy to
mold and form. As it dries the water in the clay
evaporates and the clay hardens.
2. KILN. Firing is the term for heating the clay in the
kiln.
3. BISQUE. Clay which has been fired once, without
glaze.
KILN
GREENWARE
BISQUE
What is a Kiln?
A Super HOT Oven!
The heat from the kiln causes the water to evaporate
from the clay, and the clay becomes
hard.
How hot is
it inside the
kiln?
about
2000 degrees!!!
How hot is an
oven baking
cookies?
350 degrees
farenheit
How hot is
about 100
degrees
a summer
farenheit
heatwave?
How warm
70 degrees
is this
farenheit
room?
Kiln Fired Clay (Part 2)
4. GLAZE. Glaze is the paint used to color clay projects.
There are small particles of silica in our colorful glazes, when
they are heated in the kiln they will melt and transform into glass!
5. KILN. Firing is the term for heating the clay in the kiln.
6. Take Home!
Can you Score?
SCORE. Making marks in the clay to join 2 pieces together.
1. Use a bamboo skewer.
2. Draw tic-tac-toe boards.
3. Don’t push too hard!
4. Use a small amount of water to help.