UPDATED: 8th grade Face Sculptures

Eighth grade student from 2nd quarter worked on a low relief sculpture of a face.  Students had fun playing with paper mache and painting these in both realistic and abstract colors.  I was inspired by FecklePhoto blog.  This blog has inspired several projects and projects to come!  I found it on Pinterest (click here to see other pins).  If you want to see more of what my students created, please visit our classroom flickr account.

Update:

In response to some questions I was asked… I have some more to add to this post…

Miriam Paternoster said...I’ve seen all works of your student, these are amazing! Did you made them with cardboard and paper with vinilic glue? How many hours did your students spend for this sort of job? It’s really original!!!


I had to look up what vinilic glue is.  I think it is like our white liquid glue.  The paste I used is called Elmer's Art paste.

This product is slimy and the kids love it (but claim they hate it):)!  I did use a matte board template because it is a nice, stiff base.  On the flickr site you will see the kids cutting with a utility knife.  Have band aides on hand:)  We used cardboard for the 3-D parts because they are able to cut out with a scissors rather then a knife.  They taped these parts on and covered with a light paper (newspaper, tissue paper, even toilet paper) dipped into the art paste.

This project took about 8 hours to finish.  Here is a rough guideline (these all overlapped)

• Day 1: design
• Day 2: cut Matte Board
• Day 3 and 4: cut and tape structure of the 3-d parts
• Day 5 and 6: Paper Mache
• Day 7 and 8: Paint and add the 'extras' (yarn, beads, materials, and so on)

Hope this clears things up:)