Artist of the Week 3 / 7 / 2019

I usually like to recognize artist and their finished art works, but in all grades our students work is in the process of being completed. 4th Graders are just beginning their clay sculptures. After a review of using ceramic clay, a demonstration on building our project, and a draft for the following week 4th Grade students were given the opportunity to make a small pendant. They were required to be rather flat and to experiment with texture or lines in this quick piece. 

The student I am choosing to recognize has a great imagination and an interesting sense of humor. He often surprises me by taking his projects to a next level. There are many very cool pendants that were started last week and I can’t wait to see them glazed and hung on a string. This student did something that no other student and started to sculpt a creature popping out of the pendant. This is called sculpting in relief. An example of a relief sculpture is a face on one of our coins. Congratulations to W. R. in Mrs. Towles’s 4th Grade, Student Artist of the Week, for his relief of a dragon on this cool start to his medallion. I will be sure to share a photo of this piece when it is done.