Friday, February 3, 2012

One Clay Project - 3 Ways! Cantrell Inspired Clay Faces

Kimmy Cantrell Inspired Clay Faces - Finished 3 Ways - Which is the best method? 


Last quarter I was lucky to have a wonderful student teacher. As part of her practice teaching she created a project unit for 3rd grade dealing with shapes and colors. One of the projects was a clay project inspired by artist Kimmy Cantrell.  She came up with a great clay face project that combined shape and texture. We brainstormed different ways of finishing the pieces - using glazes or painting with acrylic.  Because I'm in three different buildings there were 5 classes that were going to be doing this project. She would be doing the project with the 3rd graders in two of my schools and because of the timing I would be doing it with the 3rd grade class in my third school after her time with me was done. We decided to experiment with how to finish the clay faces to see which was the better method. She used glazes in one school and acrylic paint coated with wax in the other school. I decided to use acrylic paint with the class I did - but had students base coat with black first.

I think there were great successes in all of the classes. The students enjoyed the project. They learned about asymmetrical design, texture, and a new artist all while having fun!

Here are the results of the three different methods....which do you prefer?

These pieces were finished using glazes - 




These pieces were finished using "earthy" colors of acrylic paint coated 
with some floor wax for shine - 




These pieces were finished with a base coat of black acrylic - when that dried students chose lots of different colors of acrylic to it. No wax coating seemed to be needed - 










6 comments:

  1. I like the ones that were basecoated with black. It just gives them more depth and interest. Nice work!

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    1. Thanks Pat! - I agree the black added dimension to the pieces.

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  2. Cool project and lovely results!

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  3. sorry i cannot speack englis i from indo... tanks for sharing this info

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  4. I love the ones painted in black. Do you have a lesson plan or step by step process that you might share?

    Thanks.

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  5. pg สล็อต เกมสล็อตออนไลน์ได้รับความนิยมอย่างมากในปัจจุบัน โดยเฉพาะจาก PG SLOT ซึ่งเป็นนักพัฒนาเกมชื่อดังที่มีความรู้สึกทันสมัยและคุณภาพเยี่ยม ผ่านอุปกรณ์มือถือที่ทันสมัยและสะดวกสบาย

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