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Bas Relief Portrait
Grade Level 11-12
Materials Needed:
clay
24" rolling pin
Two 3/8" think sticks 12" or longer
Large piece of canvas
Wire loop clay tools
Variety of wooden & steel sculpture tools
newspaper
Visuals:
I use reproduction busts...a Rodin portrait, and a copy of the head of
Mary from the Pieta. I also have plaster models of ear, nose, and
mouth area. A variety of facial visuals are displayed around the room.
Procedure:
( I work along with the students through each step.)
DAY 1
Wedge a basketball size piece
of clay.
Lay it on the piece of canvas between the two sticks and roll it
into a slab of uniform thickness.
Make an oval armature with newspaper that is flat on the back and
has the roundness of the face on the front and sides.
Lift up the slab, place the armature under the clay and lay the slab
over the armature.
Gently use the sides of the hands to form and press the clay into a
facial shape.
Using a pointed tool have the students draw the facial proportions
on the clay head.
DAY 2
Push the thumbs into the clay
to form the eye sockets then form the temples on the sides of the
sockets. (Have students feel their own eye sockets and temple areas so
the students are aware of the structure of the area.)
A lump of clay is wet and added onto the face to form the nose
(Discuss the muscles, cartilage, and underlying structure that gives the
nose its shape.) The nostrils, sides of the nose, and tip of the nose
are then sculpted. The forehead is also added at this time.
DAY 3
A lump of clay is added onto
the mouth area another onto the chin. The lips are then sculpted.
DAY 4
Take out the newspaper, push
the eyeballs out, then do each eye in a technique...one cut out, the
other carved out.
Day 5
Demonstrate to the students
hair possibilities, doing fabric. Stress experimentation.
DAY 6
Show professional and student
examples. Discuss possibilities stressing distortion, exaggeration,
facial expression and angle vision.
- Have the students break up their practice piece and begin their
final portrait.
Southern Alleghenies
Museum of Art
www.sama-art.org
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Clay Bas Relief Portrait
Lesson By:
Richland High School
Ed Pozun |
