Unit 4: Space and volume · Approach to the space concept. · Approach to the volume concept. · Relations between flat forms: change of size, contact, separation, transparency, overlapping, intersection, penetration, contrasts pitch.

 Learning skills for arranging materials and manipulate malleable materials.

Learning about the work of sculptors and about different kind of sculpture.

Being able to express personal views using 3D material.

Understanding  some of the basic properties of clay

Analyzing different images seeing lines and points of perspective.

Hard and soft pencils

Ruler

Compass

Newspapers

Superglue

Wood

Paste for modelling

Clay

1. Search photography of urban landscapes in newspaper and magazines. Using   a vegetal paper,   trace the most important lines. Paint   in black the shadow zones and the zones of light in white.
2. Compare one Picasso’s cubist painting and one Leonardo’s searching differences between opposite perspectives.
3. Design and build a mask using papier-mâché made by yourself.

12 / 14 sessions

• Clay
• Sculpture
• Shape
• Wood
• Perspective
• Vanishing point
• To carve