Van Gogh Landscape , Clay Artproject

RePost from Jul 30, 2009, first month of blogging

Beautiful work of art were made inspired by Van Gogh landscape drawing during 2 lessons.

A line drawing was choosen, I made 4 options, I simplifed Van Gogh drawings found in the internet.

On a heavy cardboard a rectangle was drawen the size of the line drawings.

From clay a block rectangle was made over the drawn rectangle.

With a pointy tool they traced the line illustration on the clay.

Once the landscape illustration was traced they were ready to work on the clay.

The lines of the drawing were formed with dry sticks and cotton rope.

 

 

Dotted designs were embossed with a variety of tools in all the areas of the landscape.

Last stage was to put a light layer of glue and let it dry.
The second lesson, the clay was dry.

A heavy layer of glue was rubbed on and around clay so that the artwork will be strong on the board.

Color gauche were mixed to form the color of the sky and fields .

Last stage was to color the artwork.

They all created beautiful clay tablet.

group Menorah (Hanukkah), Clay

Each member made one clay candle holder for this group Menorah.

With a cardboard stancil shaped triangle they each formed a triangle base for the candle...

...color sand was glued on the glass candle holder.

other Hunukka projects :

colorful and bright "dreidel" 

Holiday Light Menorah, Inspired by Chihuly

broken line texture, chanukka oil jar

and pastel and oil "oil jar project

Clay Artproject, Fish

This is a great project to do with autistic adult, always a success.
I allways start with the technique of forming round shape balls the size of a cherry; I like this technique because I do not have to worry about kneading the clay well, and you get a very special boarder edge.

Using a paper plate as a base we filling the plate with clay balls.

Then I give out a cutout shape of a fish and help the members draw the outline of the fish with a sharp tool on the clay.

Once they had the ouline of the fish or object they used mosic stones to fill the inside of the fish.

Around the fish, the background was embossed with an icecream stick.

A layer of glue in put on the total artproject, once dry the paperplate can be removed.

  

Personal Chamsa from Clay

  This Chamsa (Arabic) a lucky talisman shaped like a hand was done in that same technique as the  clay and color sand artproject.

After forming many round shape clay balls covered with color sand, they drew with the marker their left hand on the cardboard.

Small dry branches they broke to size are used to decorate.

A layer of glue mixed with sparkling paint a bit water down was brushed on the whole  project.

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Embossed Clay Pattern

This embossed clay project was done in 2 session.
First thing, members choose either a circle or rectangle as the art shape to work on.
The technique of forming round shape balls the size of a cherry was used to fill the shape on the cardboard.
When the whole shape was filled with clay balls they rubbed the shapes together to make it smooth and flat.
To help design the emboss design I gave each member 5 peices of rope, together we created the design by stretching each piece of the ropes from one side of the clay form to the other.
The design was embossed with a variety of tools.
Last stage was to put a light layer of glue and let it dry.

The second lesson,they mixed the color with glue.
You could see that we used a light color using alot of white so that once painted, the embossed design would not be lost.
To add interest we placed a strip of paper across the artwork, and they painted the whole artwork with the mix of color and glue.
To decorate, I gave dry roots sticks that I found by the road, they broke and placed the sticks around the art work.


The above artproject was done in one session, while the clay was soft the sticks were pressed in the clay.


Put side by side they form a wonderful artwork.

clay project –sea and shells

Shells from my walk on the beach.

We used card board egg container to form the rectanguler shape.

The technique of forming round shape balls the size of a cherry was used, they filled the egg container with round shape balls. Once the container was full they rubbed the shapes together to make it smooth and flat. I like this technique because I do not have to worry about kneading the clay well, and you get a very special boarder edge.

To make the design "a wave" , they worked on paper.

They cut the design and placed it on the clay, using a stick they traced the line.

It was colored with a mix of gauche and glue.

Shells were pressed in the clay to decorate while the glue/paint are still wet.

When dry add a layer of glue on entire art project.

inspired by Van Gogh - colorful clay tablet

Beautiful work of art were made inspired by Van Gogh landscape drawing during 2 lessons.

A line drawing was choosen, I made 4 options, I simplifed Van Gogh drawings found in the internet.

On a heavy cardboard a rectangle was drawen the size of the line drawings.

From clay a block rectangle was made over the drawn rectangle.

With a pointy tool they traced the line illustration on the clay.

Once the landscape illustration was traced they were ready to work on the clay.

The lines of the drawing were formed with dry sticks and cotton rope.

Dotted designs were embossed with a variety of tools in all the areas of the landscape.

Last stage was to put a light layer of glue and let it dry.

The second lesson, the clay was dry.

A heavy layer of glue was rubbed on and around clay so that the artwork will be strong on the board.

Color gauche were mixed to form the color of the sky and fields .

Last stage was to color the artwork.

They all created beautiful clay tablet.

clay, color sand and dry branches

Creat round ball shape from clay

Roll the clay shape ball in different color colored sand

On a paper plate put colored clay ball one next to the other

Connect the clay balls with a small dry branches

Press down by puting another plate on the clay project and pressing

Roll glue on the entire clay project

When dry cut paper plate around project