August 3-7: More Modern Masters, ages 6-9

Day 1

Matisse relief- Students learned about Matisse, then sketched designs using shapes or copied one of Matisse’s compositions. Using slabs, students cut out shapes and created a relief of their composition.
Claus Oldenburg food sculptures- Students learned to build hollow using newspaper armatures and pinch building to create sculptures of food.

Picasso cups- Students learned how to build a vessels using slabs and decorating them after Picasso’s style.
Press bowls- Using compression and coils, students molded a bowl within a bisqued bowl. I do not recall the artist for this lesson.

Day 2
Matisse relief- This day was troubleshooting and restating as the slabs had dried out from the previous day. Students used slabs to recreate their compositions, and then the slabs were rolled into cylinders and made into vessels.


Surrealism houses- Students created their dream homes by slab building a structure and furnishing the interior with pinched out forms.

Picasso masks- Students sketched out their masks, and rolled out slabs. Then they carved into and decorated their slabs using bisque stamps and scratching and attaching features.
Magritte hybrid words/play on words- After sketching several ideas, students learned to build hollow and pinch forms to create sculptural illustration of their ironic play on words.



-- My internship ended early this week because I had already logged 160 unpaid hours.