TEXTURE - Metal Repoussé - 6th Grade

Sinking Springs 6th grade artists created non-objective or symbolic, metal repoussé designs that focused on line, pattern, and TEXTURE.  Repoussé is a type of low relief sculpture in which form projects from a background. Repoussé is a French word which means to push.  Using the Repoussé method, students created their metal reliefs by pushing the metal foil with dull pencils and wooden tools.  Completed foil designs were then "antiqued" using black india ink and steel wool, and/or coloring with sharpie markers.  Next, students matted their artwork and were presented with the challenge of continuing their 3-D design onto the 2-D surface of their construction paper using color pencils and/or metallic markers.

Art and Math - Sixth Grade Radial Name Design

The radial designs our sixth grade artists created this year are very impressive!

                                   

 This art project is a great way of correlating math and art. 

Craftsmanship and creativity are stressed as they are for all of our art projects.

6th Grade Clay Plates

Sinking Springs 6th Grade artists are very proud of their finely crafted clay plates.

The Native American inspiration for their designs was successful.

The students used a variety of resources to assist in designing.

Geometric patterns were also used as a source of inspiration.

6th Grade Radial Name Renderings

 

Sixth Grade Artists started out this project by reviewing the ELEMENTS OF ART and PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. Each artist created a RADIAL NAME DESIGN while focusing on LINE, SHAPE, COLOR, VALUE, PATTERN, BALANCE, and UNITY.

6th Grade Repoussé Masks

6th grade artists have created some excellent metal repoussé masks. 

They began by drawing a design for their mask on paper and then tranferred the design to the metal.

Next they tooled the metal on both sides to create texture and a 3D effect.








When they finished tooling, they cut out their mask with scissors.

The following step was to add color with sharpies or to add a patina with india ink. Some of our artists did both

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