Relief Sculpture Project Criteria

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In coming up with a topic and composition for your relief sculpture, consider what would work well with the concept of relief:

  • Forms of perspective as described in the introduction, "Relief Sculpture In Clay"
    • illusion of depth versus actual depth
    • forced versus hierarchical perspective
    • overlapping perspective
    • atmospheric perspective
  • Scale and dimensions of your piece
    • thickness of no more than two inches, and no thinner than half and inch
    • pictorial scale somewhere in the range of 6-12 inches, square or rectangular
    • portrait or landscape orientation
  • Type of relief
    • Bas Relief
    • Mid Relief
    • High Relief
    • Sunk Relief
  • Subject ideas
    • outdoor landscape
    • figurative in a scene
    • figurative filling the composition
    • interior room
    • plants, flowers, or other objects
    • complex geometric patterns
  • Content ideas
    • personal importance
    • political
    • religious or spiritual
    • social issue
    • narrative or character from a story
    • scene from real life
    • beauty or ugliness
  • No matter the subject or content, the artwork must be focussed on
    • aesthetic form
    • composition
    • sculptural volume
    • no deep undercuts
    • no through holes
  • The process
    • the relief will be modeled in clay (either water-based or oil-based)
    • then a flexible latex mold will be made from it
    • a plaster mother mold will be made over the latex mold
    • it will cast in a variety of media, and finished
    • presentation considerations must be made, such as hanging on a wall, placing on a stand,  or laid flat
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