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Art CurriculumField Trips Beyond the Art MuseumField trips are a wonderful addition to any art curriculum program. Local artists can take you beyond the art museum. For example, have you ever wondered how sculptors make something like this? 
We found out today at Wesley Wofford’s studio. Wesley has worked on many movie sets and does figurative sculpture. He does alot of commissoned work cast mostly in bronze and it is just amazing to see the "behind the scenes" process. Homeschool field trips...I love them!
Check out my instantly downloadable e-book about field trip planning written especially for homeschoolers! ---->>>>> First, you start with a small clay model that you turn into a styrofoam model.
Cut the styrofoam into pieces and enlarge it’s shape on the wall. Cut it out of even bigger styrofoam pieces and cover it with clay. 
This big clay covered styrofoam piece gets cut up so you can make a flexible mold. This flexible mold gets covered with a hard mold. 
Cast the pieces in bronze and weld them together for the finished product you see above. It's amazing how expensive art pieces are. This particular one is priced at $32,000. It seems expensive until you find out that it took alot of material and nearly a year for him to complete this piece. Once we were finished with our tour, the kids got to try their hand with the modeling clay.
It wasn't as easy as it looked! As much as I'd like to be good at writing art lesson plans, I couldn't have written something like this if I tried. :-) Leave the art curriculum page and return to the HBD Home page |
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