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Hollow Clay Sculpture Balancing Organic And Geometric Forms
Make hollow clay sculpture balancing organic and geometric forms. Use the example for ideas, but choose your own subject, colors, arrangement, and details.
Study the example for possibilities, then close or cover it. Your work should make different choices.
What to do
- Make this: hollow clay sculpture balancing organic and geometric forms.
- Your core skill today: Revise structure and surface to communicate an intention from several viewpoints.
- Make a quick sketch. Label the main shapes, colors, parts, and where they will go.
- Build the largest solid forms first. Join parts securely, test the balance, then add surface texture and important details.
- Stop halfway. Compare the work to the project goal—not to another student’s art. Fix, add, remove, move, or strengthen one part.
- Finish the important details. Make sure every loose part is attached and the main idea is easy to notice.
- Share the work. Explain one choice and one change you made. Photograph or display it, then clean the workspace.
My project: I am making hollow clay sculpture balancing organic and geometric forms. Draw or write your idea.
My choices: Circle or write the colors and materials you will use.
My plan: Draw the big shapes or main parts and show where they will go.
My first step: What will you make first?
Halfway check: What part needs to be added, moved, fixed, or made stronger?
Finish check: Are the main idea, important details, and connections complete?
Share: One choice I made was… One change I made was…
Skill evidence: Revise structure and surface to communicate an intention from several viewpoints. Show your test and explain what you chose; speaking or dictation is welcome.
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