Thanks, Judy, for posting this! Betty, I have a stack of salvaged old "desk
tops"--the types that used to be on school desks. They were earmarked for
the dumpster (horrors!) and I grabbed about 20 of them. We use them when
we're drawing or painting outside and they also work really well for
weighting things down, especially if I put a gallon can of paint on top!
(I've gotten great deals on mis-mixed paint at stores for large sculpture
projects.)
Fortunately we haven't had much problem with these "additive relief"
projects warping and I'm definitely going to try Judy's suggestions for
making it a more affordable project! :-)
As kids finish up the additive process mock stone reliefs, their next
project is a subtractive process relief, using dry wall as a carving medium.
I did this several years ago--after learning about it on ArtsEdNet--with
very good results!
http://www.art-rageous.net/ReliefSculpture02.html
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Sharon
www.art-rageous.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty B" <bettycarol_40@sbcglobal.net>
To: "TeacherArtExchange Discussion Group"
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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: Re: [teacherartexchange] New Sculpture Lesson from Sharon Kennedy
(Art-Rageous)
> This is just the sort of I thing I was looking for - a
> way to introduce 3-D when we come back from a week of
> being off from the ice storms....
>
> And the other day a kids project "warped" and it
> worried him and I told him it was "the nature of the
> beast" and none of them had ever heard that saying, so
> we say it all the time now. (I keep a stack of boards
> for flattening stuff)
