Coil Pots

Vanessa Toomey

Jason Vorhis


Ariel Walter

Daniel Moyer

Minion Lamp

Kyra did an awesome job on her sculpture of a minion. It doubles as a working lamp!

Throwing on the Wheel

Sculpture & Pottery students are taking turns throwing on the wheel. Some are getting quite good at it. There is only way to do this -- try, try again. The first efforts at this will never be awesome, and we all have to make a few flops. After a while, if you stick with it, they get better -- like the one above!

Pariscraft Sculptures

Dinosaur
by Vanessa Toomery
& Andrew Jackson

S

by Savannah Dakos

Mr. Brushy and another Pariscraft Sculpture

Mr. Brushy
Pariscraft
by Kaillee, Colleen, and Savannah

The large sculpture is called Mr. Brushy. This was created by students at my request to help students remember how to care for brushes. His permanent home is by the art room sink, next to a poem (or song, if you sing it)

Mr. Brushy is your friend
You must wash him again and again
But do not store him upside down,
Or his smile becomes a frown.

On the House
by Abigail Beck & Giulianna DeSisti

Bubble Gum Lamp

Dubble Bubble Lamp
by Dustin Hill

This is an optional assignment: Create a working lamp from found objects or art supplies. This is the first finished project -- a bubble gum lamp. It is made out of a wooden box in which dozens of gumballs were glued to. The lamp shade is made from a Dubble Bubble bucket. It creates a very striking effect.

The Balsa Foam Special

Sculpture students created this tasty looking scene out of balsa foam. While this material is easy to carve, it is still quite challenging to imagine a three dimensional object this way, so this is quite good.

Bowl of fruit- Colleen Kithcart
Hot dog- Vanessa Toomey
Gatorade - Adam Felt
Sundae- Kyra Aseline

Weaving

In Sculpture & Pottery, students are given the chance to try a few craft projects if they wish. One of the optional assignments to choose from is a weaving. Several students enjoyed working with a partner while they created a woven wall-hanging.


In Scultp

Strawberry Fields Forever

These students made a freestanding sculpture of John Lennon. First, they made an armature out of cardboard, masking tape, and a balloon. Then they used strips of Pariscraft to coat the armature. Next, they added details using yarn, buttons, pipe cleaners, etc.

John Lennon
by Lacey Satterly, Molly Wolanski, & Aerotine MacWhinnie

Altered Books Discoveries

In this altered book, you can open it, then open it again. It includes artifacts from past projects and some strange writing made by pasting parts of one page over another. A door opens to reveal a scene.

Aerotine MacWhinnie

Arianna Crawford

The book above is meant to symbolize The Art Room -- a creative place!

Free Projects

We only have four days of class left to Sculpture & Pottery - a semester course. Many students are finishing up "free projects". Some students enjoyed a specific art form and wanted to do it again. Others chose from a list of optional projects including weaving.

Altered Books Expressions

Students are finishing up altered books projects. The only rule to this project is: There are no rules. Students decide what to do with them. Sarah Slocum created the one above. An educational encyclopedia comes to life through the assemblage of toy, puzzle, bookmark, reading light, and other materials.

This one is by Brittany Holmes. The cover is painted and the interior is filled with collage, puzzle pieces, beads, sequins, and other objects. The pictures below are from the interior of the book.

What is an Assemblage?

The Day After Christmas

by Haley Priester

Assemblage

An assemblage is a form of sculpture comprised of "found" objects arranged in such a way that they create a three-dimensional work of art. The assemblage above was created by student Haley Priester over Christmas break.

If you would like to see more examples of this art form by professional artists, visit The Assemblage Studio. The examples you see may give you ideas for objects you might assemble to create your own work of art.

Coil Pot

Coil Pot by Levi Mathers

A coil pot is a pot made with spiral of clay a pot formed from a structure of coils or ropes of clay laid one on top of the other in a spiral.

The Handbook

Handbook by Kirsten Colegrove

Sculpture & Pottery students are continuing to work on Altered Book projects. These projects are a chance to experiment with some of the techniques they've learned for three-dimensional art. Many of them look great hanging like mobiles.

Bust Sculptures

Brittany Holmes

A bust is a sculptured, painted, drawn, or engraved representation of the upper part of the human figure, esp. a portrait sculpture showing only the head and shoulders of the subject. S&P classes recently created busts from clay.

Levi Mathers

Sara Slocum

Ashlee Fisher

Mara Tate

Guest Potter

Today we had a visit from Sayre High School student Janine Krench. She is planning to be an art teacher and visited as part of a job shadowing project. In addition to observing, she shared her own knowledge to students. She is quite an accomplished potter and we quickly set up a makeshift wheel throwing station. A few of the students got an introductory lesson in throwing clay on the pottery wheel.

Clay Jack O'Lanterns

Sculpture & Pottery students each made one of these. They turned out great. I let everybody take them home before I realized I hadn't taken any pictures -- except of this one.

Clay Jack O'Lantern
by Mara Tate

Altered Books

I've never made altered books before, but my ninth grade art students and I are learning together. The Waverly Library had several boxes of books that were headed for recycling. We offered to recycle them -- into art! Students have shown a lot of creativity in coming up with their own creative solutions in transforming books into art.

This book is called Doorway to the Galaxy (by Arianna Crawford).
What is an altered book?

An altered book is a form of mixed media artwork that changes a book from its original form into a different form, altering its appearance and/or meaning.

An altered book artist takes a book (old, new, recycled or multiple) and cuts, tears, glues, burns, folds, paints, adds to, collages, rebinds, gold-leafs, creates pop-ups, rubber-stamps, drills, bolts, and/or be-ribbons it. The artist may add pockets and niches to hold tags, rocks, ephemera, or other three-dimensional objects. Some change the shape of the book, or use multiple books in the creation of the finished piece of art.

Altered books may be as simple as adding a drawing or text to a page, or as complex as creating an intricate book sculpture. (Wikipedia, 2010).

Some students are choosing to paint right on the pages, and others are making collages in the book.

If you are interested in seeing a gallery of work by artists who specialize in altared books, visit this website: www.altaredbookartists.com

Balsa Foam Carvings

Our Sculpture & Pottery class created low-relief sculptures from Balsa foam. A relief is a sculptured artwork where a carved or modelled form is raised (or in the case of a sunken relief, lowered) from a plane from which the main elements of the composition project (or sink). Raising or lowering the plane is achieved by removing material not relevant to the image. The objects project from a flat surface, so it is a combination of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.

Kirsten Colegrove

Brook Larimer

Ashlee Fisher

This one is a close-up of the sculpture below -- "The Temple of Harley".

Harley Cusack

Molly Wolanski

Sarah Slocum

Haley Priester

Mara Tate