Spud Sculpting! Using the humble potato, you are to sculpt: -Carve in holes

1. ORGANIC FORMS ‘CHOOSE’ I.S SHEET: Choose 8 out of 12 to complete. Review in class every other week. • Spud Sculpting! • Using the humble potato, you are to sculpt: • -Carve in holes • -Slice, dice and re-assemble • -Angle off curves • -Mash & Make • You will need cocktail sticks to join pieces. • Draw, Photo & Eat your creations • Ice-in! • Use your freezer at home to produce ice cubes, blocks, etc… from which you can create sculptural work. E.g. • Stack ice cubes & photo/film these melting • Place natural items or add food dyes/colouring in water before freezing (petals, leaves, berries, etc…) • Stick lollies with twigs – use a plastic cup, fill with water, stick in a twig or two & freeze. • Photo your ideas The Great Banana Skin Sculpt-off! Peel banana(s) Twist & arrange it into different forms Draw from different angles Photo your skin sculptures over a few days Try drying them out Warning – do not eat more than 6 in one day! • Peelings……whoooaaaa, Peelings! • Use slices, skins & peelings of fruit &/or veg to make various artistic masterpieces. • E.g. • Slice orange & dry out on a radiator – sew them together to make a natural stained glass window effect • Draw, photo & compost • &/OR You must be Nuts! • Use nuts, fruit stones &/or pips to do the same • All Wrapped Up! • Wrap up objects (Natural or Manmade) in: • Fabric • Paper • Wool • String • Tights • Cling Film • Foil • Draw & Photo as you go • Clean Carves! • Buy some bars of soap (Imperial Leather is a good one for soap carving) • Carve using various tools & implements • Create different textured surfaces by pressing in &/or rubbing over with different objects/materials/artefacts • E.g. • Cheese grater • Concrete slab • Dining fork • Draw, paint, photo & wash your hands on your sculptures Chicken Carcass Challenge! Photo & Draw your chicken before it goes in the oven (or before that if you have access to live ones!). After devouring the meat – Photo & Draw your chicken carcass remains. If you want to go one step beyond, boil & clean a range of the bones to create simple, small sculpture ideas. Wax 4 Candles! Using candles and / or wax crayons (but not ear wax!) to: Draw, carve, create, join, melt, light, burn, cast, fuse, run, pour, mould, break, bend, encase, entomb, surround, etc, etc Draw, Photo &/or Film your waxing (not your waning!) • Plughole Patterns! • After your servants have washed up……. • Run the tap and draw the flowing water • Pour paint, dye, food colouring down the plughole of a sink, basin or bath • Photo, film & take ‘prints’ with different papers • Sculpt with bubbles! • Watch out for spiders! • 100% natural? • Using natural objects, materials, etc… create 2D &/or 3D studies. • Leaves Grass, straw, hay, Branches, twigs, sticks • Stones, pebbles, Soil,Feathers, Bones. • Join, attach, glue, weave, split, paint with/on, print from/on, burn, sculpt, trail, screw, lash, drill. • Create: • Circles, spirals, waves, structures, hangings, mobiles, etc… • RESEARCH & RESPOND • Maori Tattoos • Find pictures of the work (at least 5). • Annotate these pictures – write about materials used, influences of artists, how work relates to organic forms, etc… • Draw, collage, extend, recreate, etc… a section of one of these works • RESEARCH & RESPOND • Hiroshige • Find pictures of the work (at least 5). • Annotate these pictures – write about materials used, influences of artists, how work relates to organic forms,, etc… • Draw, collage, extend, recreate, etc… a section of one of these works