Relief Sculpture in Clay
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- Points 12
- Submitting on paper
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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Narrative
Every artwork contains a message. It may be overt, deliberately obscure, or intentionally open to interpretation. In this project, your narrative must be defensible in group critique. You must convey your intention both visually and verbally to assess effectiveness.
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Composition
Your artwork contains forms that interact physically and visually. The placement of objects, along with their shapes, determine the composition. Use volume, line, foreground, background, proportion, negative space, diagonals, curves, juxtapositions, and edges to manipulate the viewer's visual attention.
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Technique
Your technical handling of surface, texture, detail, proportion, roundness, flatness, and sense of space, all reveal your skillsets. High technical skill is the goal, as it gives you freedom to create physically what your mind can conceive.
In this project, structural and practical techniques are expected to be employed:
Physically sound elements must be able to handle molding and casting without breakage, air entrapment, or issues in de-molding.
There can be no open through spaces to cause mold making issues.
Delicate forms must be made by illusion rather than actual delicacy, and these elements must be soundly affixed to the body of the work.
Undercuts must be understood, deliberate, and minimal to accommodate future molding with latex in a single piece.
The work must be designed for either wall hanging or other presentation, so that upon future casting it is ready to show.
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