president...

busts!!!!!

Oh my... 

So my first year teaching (3 long years ago) I decide to take on a monstrosity of a project. Call it a novice mistake or call it youthful thinking... but this project was big, messy, and took forever....

BUT IT WAS NOTHING SHORT OF AWESOME. 

Here it is... the presidents of the US (bust only) create by my 5th graders (of 2008).

Vocabulary:

•Three-dimensional - Having height, width, and depth

•Sculpture - Artwork that is three-dimensional

•Form - Forms are 3-Dimensional. They occupy space or give the illusion that they occupy space.

•Bust - The head and shoulders of a person

•Realistic – The representation in art or literature of objects, actions, or social conditions as they actually are, without idealization or presentation in abstract form.

•Positive space:  The space a form occupies in an artwork. The actual material of the sculpture

•Negative space:  The empty space in and around an object that helps define the sculpture.

Background Info:

Sculpture is the creation of three-dimensional forms. A sculpture is a three-dimensional object, which means that you can walk all the way around it and see many different views. A form is an object defined by height, depth, and width. Sculpture is created through three basic processes: carving, modeling, or assembly.  

Each student was doing a report in LA/SS on a president. They had to create a paper mache bust of that president. We used thin and thick cardboard for the shoulders and neck and a balloon for the head. We paper mached the entire thing and added cardboard facial features.

So it only took about 3 month to create these bad boys... worth it? I think yes. Will I do it again? Perhaps I will muster up the courage....one day...