Metal Tooling, Notan, Native American Dwelling Prints, Chinese Calligraphy, and Clay Clay Clay!

The following are projects that the students of Berry Intermediate have been working on. Currently, the entire school is working in clay and this has been going on since a week or two after Christmas.  Sixth graders are making shelf sitters, animals that sit with bead/wire legs.  See this post from last school year.  The fifth graders have been making Chinese New Year clay medallions with Chinese Calligraphy.  First take a look at some of the projects that the students have recently finished.

Metal Tooling by 6th Grade

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Notan: Chinese Paper Cut Designs by 6th Grade

Native American Dwelling Prints by 5th Grade

Up to my Ears in Clay

Glazing Chinese New Year Medallions with Chinese Calligraphy, 5th Grade

Don't be a tool. Unless you're metal tooling.

The 6th graders at Berry Intermediate have been working on a metal foil tooling project.  We started out the year with learning about the elements of art by making a paper cube. Each side of the cube represented an element of art.  The cube, itself, represented form.  The cube project idea was given to me by a good friend, Carol Carver, an art teacher in the Princeton school district.  The cubes were a good way to introduce the elements of art, an appropriate prerequisite for the foil tooling project.   

 Materials: thick aluminum foil, drawing paper, pencils, India ink, black construction paper, wooden stylus tools and oil pastels.

The students were required to demonstrate use of line, shape, space, texture and color in this project.

Below are some photos of the process and finished product.