| Instructional Objective:
The student will understand and apply media,
techniques, and processes.
Curricular Integration:
With the emergence of the wildly popular
movies based on pirates this project lends itself to a variety of
cross-curricular activities including Language Arts, Math, Social
Studies, and Science. Writing is certainly an area that could be
tapped into especially if you were trying to teach Voice from the Six
Traits Writing Program. What a better way to teach voice than to
listen to Captain Jack Sparrow in either of the Pirates of the
Caribbean movies and write your own dialogue for that character.
Imagine students reading this dialogue while holding their clay pirate
faces built in art.
Materials and Equipment:
Low fire clay (if you do not have access to a
kiln you may use self hardening clay for this project)
Assorted clay sculpting tools
Rolling pins
Clay thickness strips
Acrylic paints or tempera paints if you prefer
12” X 18” drawing paper
Resource Materials:
Everything I Know about Pirates by Tom
Lichtenheld, Aladdin Paperbacks
Dynasty/FM Brush - Eye of the Tiger Brushes:
Oval: #0, #4, #6
Flats: #6, #10, #12, 3/4
Project Requirements:
- Design a 3-dimensional pirate face using
relief techniques.
- Understand clay construction terms: slab,
score, and slip.
- Design humorous stereotypical pirate
characteristics.
- Paint the face using acrylic paints.
Project
Introduction:
Introduce the project by discussing
the humorous stereotypical ideas presented in the book Everything I
Know about Pirates by Tom Lichtenheld and the popular movies
Pirates of the Caribbean. Brainstorm a list of the characteristics
that are presented in the book such as wardrobe, pirate ships, skull
and crossbones, the hunt for buried treasure, practicing the pirate
sneer, food eaten, and developing an appropriate pirate name.
Art Production:
- Using the list developed above the teacher
will pass out the pirate face tracing patterns and instruct the
students to trace around the face on a piece of drawing paper.
Tracing this pattern ensures that the students achieve a uniform
size and shape of the face utilizing the amount of clay allowed for
this project. The students will design their faces basing their
characteristics generated in the brainstormed list above and any
other interesting details that they might like to add such as hats,
scarves, scars, earrings, and the appropriate pirate accessories.
Once the design is complete the students will cut out the face drawn
on paper, this will become the pattern for the relief.
- The students will roll out a slab of clay
at least 3/8” thick, using the 3/8” clay thickness strip to test for
width. Cut out the shape of the entire pirate face including hats
and scarves, this will become the base to build the pirate from and
develops a good foundation for the sculpture.
- Using the paper pattern cut out the
various parts of the pirate such as the scarves, eyes, eye patches,
nose, and any other parts that were added to the design. Cut these
out of the remaining clay slab and use the pattern for placement.
Remind the students that they must score each piece they are
attaching to the base and use enough water and slip to glue the
pieces together.
- Certain parts of the design can be drawn
onto the piece and using the clay tools to deepen the lines enough
to make them visible and part of the 3-dimensional piece. These can
include hair, eyebrows, teeth, and lines and ornamentation on the
hat.
- Let this dry for a number of days on a
flat surface and fire in the kiln.
- Paint using acrylic paints or tempera
paint if you prefer.
 Evaluation: Teacher observation and record
keeping.
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