Kindergarten artists worked with Model Magic to create these wonderful snails. The artists had so much fun coloring their white model magic with markers before creating their snails. Students learned how to knead the marker color into their clay to create bright colors. They also worked on rolling the clay into a ball and creating a coil to make the shell of the snail.
The snails looked beautiful displayed in the glass cases at school. Great job Kindergarten artists!
Fourth grade artists have been exploring the sculptures of Alexander Calder – they loved seeing photos of his studio filled with bits of wire and junk!
Calder in his studio.
I gave my students a Calder Challenge for their sculptures:
1) their sculpture must have both moving (mobile) parts and non-moving (stabile) parts
2) their sculpture must have visual interest from every angle
The challenge was met – as you can see!
Lots of good recycled junk to choose from!
Sculpture in the works
Drawing our sculptures in our sketchbooks – translating what we see from 3D to 2D!
And some completed Calder-esque masterpieces….
