Art of the Week – Polar Bear Sculpture

This was the second part of a two-part lesson on three dimensions and sculpting.  In part one, the class created the armature of a polar bear out of aluminum foil.  Tad showed me his foil form last week, but it wasn’t camera ready.

Yesterday, the sculpting began.  And WOW, did Tad take to sculpting!

I was blown away by just how much he “got” the concept of 3D, of textures, of proportions, and even little details.

The shape of the head, and the eyes, nose, and mouth are all great…. and the ears!  The ears look like real ears!

Tad has seen polar bears at Point Defiance, so I think he has a realistic sense of what a polar bear does look like.  But still.  His teacher was really impressed with him.

And this really was what I was hoping to get out of art lessons for Tad.  He loves drawing, and I knew he would enjoy painting.  But sculpting with clay?  He’s done some small school projects, and played with Play-Doh, but nothing that indicated that he grasped the concept like this.  But I really wanted him to experiment with different mediums, just so we could see what else he might be able to do.

I guess we just found out!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 at 12:03 am and is filed under Being Crafty, Children.
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